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 CONTENTS O ]^' VOL. III. 
 
 HEAVENS GLORY, SEEKE IT, ike, 1628, . . 141 leaves. 
 
 THE FAMOUS HISTORY OF GVY EARLE OF 
 
 WARWICKE, 1682, ..... 44 do. 
 MISCELLANEOUS POEMS, . . . .12 do. 
 
 NOTES, by Sidney J. H. Herrtage, ... 42 do. 
 GLOSSARY, by Sidney J. H. Herrtage, . , 18 do. 
 
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 To the Reader. 
 
 HE prefent carelejfe 
 fecurity of all men in 
 generally is like vnto 
 oztrfirjl Parents neg- 
 lefl of Gods facrcd commande- 
 ment in Paradice, zuhen the fedu- 
 cing Serpent no fooner perfuaded 
 enill, but it was infant ly put in 
 praclife : Youfliall dye [faid God) 
 was heard, but you fJiall not dye 
 [faid the Diucll) was beleeued. 
 Our eares are daily acquainted 
 witb the threatnings of Gods de- 
 A 3 noimced
 
 To the Reader. 
 
 notmced agahi/l Jinners, mid yet 
 that finne, that broad ivay-path 
 and highway to hell, is attempted 
 zuith a delegation and p leaf ure, fo 
 or of tie afid fiibtill are the baits 
 and hires of the deceiuer, and fo 
 void of fpirittiall 'wifedo7ne is the 
 foule-m^irdering finner. But if 
 due confideration were had of the 
 wages offinfie, and the reward of 
 vnrighteotfnef/e, ajid to zuhat 
 bitterneffe it zvill turne in the 
 end, it zvotild make vs leffe bold 
 to finne, and more fear e full to of- 
 fend^ if lue ivotild take into our 
 company for a daily confort, the 
 pale memory of death, and where- 
 to hefummoneth vs after this life. 
 Death it felfe is very f ear ef till, 
 but much more terrible, in regard 
 of the iudgement it warneth vs 
 
 vnto
 
 To the Reader. 
 
 V7ito. Imagine to fee a Jinner 
 lye 071 Ids departing bed, burde- 
 ned and tyred zuitk the grieuous 
 and heatiie load of all his former 
 trefpaf/es, goared with the fling 
 and pricke of a festered confci- 
 ence, feeling the crampe of death 
 zvresting at his heart firings, 
 ready to make the ruthfull di- 
 tiorcc betzveene fonle and body, 
 pantijig for breath, and fzuim- 
 ming in a cold and fat all fzju eat, 
 zvearied with fli^ngling against 
 the deadly pangs : Oh how miich 
 would he gitte for an houre of re- 
 pentance ! at zvhat rate wotdd he 
 value a dales contrition ! Then 
 worlds zvottld be worthleffc, in 
 refpeFl of a little rcfpite, a fliort 
 truce would fee77ie mo7'e precious 
 than the t7^eafu7'es of Empires, 
 A 4 7iothing 
 
 r
 
 To the Reader. 
 
 nothing would be fo mtick estee- 
 med as a moment of time, which 
 now by moneths and yeeres is la- 
 ttiJJily /pent. 
 
 How inco7ifolable zvere his 
 cafe, his friends being fled, his 
 fences frighted, his thoughts a- 
 inazed, his memorie decaied, his 
 zvhole minde agafl, and no part 
 able to perfor^ne that it f/iould, 
 but onely his guiltie coifcience 
 pestered zvith finne, continually 
 vpbraiding him^ with bitter 
 acctfations? ivhat wozUd hee 
 thinke then (flripped out of this 
 mortall weed, and ttirned both 
 out of the feruice and hotfe 
 roome of this world) hee must 
 paffe before a mofl fetter e hidge, 
 carrying in his owne confcience 
 his enditement luritten, and a 
 
 perfe^
 
 To the Reader. 
 
 perfcH: register of all his mif- 
 deecis: when hee JJiould fee the 
 hidge prepared to paffe the fen- 
 tence agaijfi him, and the fame 
 to be his Vinpire, whom by fo 
 many offences he hath made his 
 enemie: When not onely the de- 
 uils, but euen the Angels, fiould 
 plead against him, and himfelfe 
 maugre his zvill, bee his owne 
 fharpest appeacher: What were 
 to be done in thefe dreadfull exi- 
 gents ? 
 
 When hee faw that gastly 
 dungeon and httge gulfe of hell, 
 breaking out with fearefull 
 flames, the zveeping, hoziling, 
 and gnafiing of teeth, the rage 
 of all thofe hellifi monsters, the 
 horro7ir of the place, the rigour 
 of the paine, the terrour of the 
 A 5 company.
 
 To the Reader 
 
 company^ and the eternitie of 
 all thofe ptiniJJtments. Would 
 you thinke the^n zuife that would 
 daily in fo weighty matters, and 
 idlely play away the time allot- 
 ted them to preucnt thefe in- 
 tollerable calamities ? Would 
 you then account it fecure, to 
 nurfe in your bofomc fo many 
 vgly Serpents as fi7ines are, or 
 to foster in your foulc fo many 
 malicious accifers, as mortall 
 faults are? 
 
 Would you not then thinke 
 one life too little to repent for fo 
 many iniquities, euerie one 
 whereof, were enough to cafl 
 you into thofe etierlasting and 
 vnspeakeable torments ? WJiy 
 then doe we not (at the leafl) 
 deuote that fmall remnant of 
 
 thefe
 
 To the Reader. 
 
 thefe our lattei' dayes, to the ma- 
 king an attonement with God, that 
 ottr confcienccs may be free from 
 this eternall danger? Who would 
 relie the euerlasting affaires of 
 the life to come, vpon the gliding, 
 flipperineffe ; and rnnningflreame 
 of our vncertaine life? 
 
 It is a preposterous pollicie (in 
 any wife conceit) to fight againft 
 God till our lueapons be bhmted, 
 our forces confztmed, our limmes 
 impotent, and our breath fpent; 
 and then when we fall for faint- 
 nefje, and haue fought ourfelues 
 almoft dead, to p7'efume on his 
 mercy. It zvere aflrajige peece of 
 Art, and a very exorbitant cou7fe, 
 ivhile the Ship is found, the Pylot 
 well, the Marri7ters firong, the 
 gale fatwurable, and the Sea calme, 
 
 to
 
 To the Reader. 
 
 to lye idle at rode: and when the 
 Ship leakes, the Pylot were Jickc, 
 the Marriners faint, the Jlormes 
 boyjierotis, and the Sea turmoylcd 
 with /urges, to launch fo7^th for a 
 voyage into a farrc Coiintry : yet 
 fuch is the skill of our euening re- 
 penters, who though in the fottnd- 
 neffe of health, and in the perfect 
 vfe of 7'eafon, they cannot refolue 
 to weigh the ankers that zvithhold 
 them from God, neuertheleffe, 
 feed themfelucs zvith aflrong per- 
 fwafton, that when their fences are 
 aflonied, their wits distracted, 
 their vnderstanding dtiskcd, and 
 both body and minde racked and 
 tormented with the throbs and 
 gripes of a mortall ficknef/e, then 
 will they thnke of the weightiefi 
 matters, and become Saints, when 
 
 they
 
 To the Reader, 
 
 they are fcarfe able to behaue 
 themfelues like i^ea/onable crea- 
 tures? being then prefumed to 
 be lejfe then men : for hoiv can he 
 that is ajjaidted with an vnfctled 
 confcience, distrained zuith the 
 wringing fits of his dying flefii, 
 maimed i7i all his abilities, and 
 circled in ivith fo many encom- 
 brances, be thottght of due difcre- 
 tion to difpofc of his chief (fl iezvell^ 
 zuhich is his foule? JVoyiio, they that 
 zvill loyter in feed tir7te, and begin 
 then to f owe zvhen others begin to 
 reape: they that zvill riot out their 
 health, and cafl their accounts 
 when they can fcarfely fpeake: 
 they that zvill fliimber out the day, 
 and enter their iotirney when the 
 light doth faile them, let them 
 blame their owne folly, if they dye 
 
 in
 
 To the Reader. 
 
 in debt, and et email beggerie, and 
 fall headlojig into the lapfe of end- 
 lejfe perdition. 
 
 Great caife haue wee then to 
 haue an howely zuatchfull care 
 ouerourfoule, being fo dangerous 
 aj/aidted and enuironed: mofl in- 
 stantly entreating the diuine Ma- 
 iefiy to be our affm^ed defence, and 
 let vs paffe the day in mourning, 
 the 7iight in luatching and wee- 
 ping, and our whole time in plain- 
 full lamenting, falling downe vp- 
 on the ground humbled in fack- 
 cloath and afJies, hauing lofl the 
 garment of Chrifl, that hee may 
 receiue zvhat the perfecuting ene- 
 my zuould haue fpoy led, etieryfJiort 
 figh ivill not be fufficient fails fa- 
 ction, nor euery knocke a warrant 
 to get in. Many fJiall cry Lord, 
 
 Lord, 
 
 lO
 
 To the Reader. 
 
 Lord, and JJiall not be accepted', 
 the fooliJJi Virgins did knocke, but 
 were not admitted: ludas had 
 fome for^'-ow, and yet died defpe- 
 rate. Forejlow not (faith the holy 
 Ghojl) to be coniierted vnto God, 
 and make not a daily lingering of 
 thy repair c vnto him: for tho2i 
 fJtalt finde the ftiddennef/c of his 
 zurath and reuenge not flacke to 
 destroy finners. For which caufe, 
 let no manfoiourne long infinfull 
 fccuritie, or pofl ouer his repen- 
 tance vntill feare enforce him to 
 it, but let vs frame our premifes 
 as zve zvotild fndc 07ir conclifion, 
 endeatiouring to Hue as we are de- 
 firoiis to dye : let vs not offer the 
 maine crop to the Dittell, and fet 
 God to gleane the reproof e of his 
 haruefl : let vs not gorge the Di- 
 
 uell 
 
 II
 
 To the Reader. 
 
 uell zvith oztr fairejl fruits, and 
 heme God to the filthy fd'aps of 
 his leauings : btit let vs trucly de- 
 dicate both foule and body to his 
 feruice, whofe jnght they are, and 
 whofe feruice they owe; that fo in 
 the euening of 07ir life we may re- 
 tire to a Christian refi, clofing vp 
 the day of our life zvith a cleare 
 fiinnefet, that leaning all dark- 
 neffc behhide vs, zve may carry in 
 our confidences the light ofi grace: 
 andfio cficaping the horrour ofi an 
 eternall night, paffe fir om a mor- 
 tallday, to an euer lasting morrow, 
 
 Thine in Chrift lefus, 
 
 Samuell Rowland. 
 
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 MllllHBlQK^92IMflBIiniWSISMBlMIBIII]SflBIIin 
 
 STrike/aile, poore fozcle, 
 in /ins tenipejiuoiis tide, 
 That rtmjl to rtdne 
 
 and eternall zvracke : 
 Thy courfe from heauen 
 
 is exceeding zvide, 
 H els gulf e thou ent'refl, 
 
 if grace guide not backe: 
 Sathan is Pilot 
 
 in this nauigation, 
 The Ocean, Vanity, 
 
 The Rocke, damnation. 
 
 Warre zaith the Dragon,, 
 and his zvhole alliance. 
 
 Renounce his league 
 intends thy vttcr loffe; 
 
 Take 
 
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 Take injinnesfiag of truce, 
 
 fet out defiance, 
 Difplay Chrsts enjigne 
 
 with the bloudy crojfe: 
 Against a Faith proof c 
 
 armed Christian Knight, 
 The hellifJi coioard 
 
 dares not niannage fight. 
 
 Reffl him then, 
 
 if thou wilt viSior be. 
 For fo he flies, 
 
 and is difanimate ; 
 His fiery darts can hatie 
 
 no fo7%e at thee, 
 Thefiiield of faith doth all 
 
 their points rebate: 
 He conquers none to 
 
 his inf email den. 
 But yeelding fiatics, 
 
 that wage not fight like men. 
 
 Thofe 
 
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 Thofe in the dungeon 
 
 of eternall darke, 
 He hath enthralled 
 
 euerlasting date, 
 Branded zvith Reprobations 
 
 cole-blacke marke, 
 Withhi the 7ieuer- 
 
 opening ramd vp gate : 
 Where Diues rates one 
 
 drop of zuater more 
 Than any crowne 
 
 that euer Monarch wore. 
 
 Where furies haunt the hart- 
 tome wretch, defpaire, 
 
 Where clainours ceafe not, 
 teeth are etier gnafliing. 
 
 Where zorath and vengeance 
 fit in horrors chaire, 
 
 Where quenchleffe flames 
 of fulphur fire be fiafiiing, 
 
 Where 
 
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 Where da7nned fotdes 
 
 blafpheine God in dejpig/it, 
 Where vtter darknejfe 
 Jiands remoti d from light. 
 
 Where plagues itmiron, 
 
 torments coinpajje round, 
 Whei^e anguiJJi rores 
 
 hi neuer /tinted forrow, 
 Where woe, woe, woe, 
 
 is euery voices found, 
 Where night et email 
 
 neuer yeelds to 7norrow: 
 Where damned tortures 
 
 dreadfull fiall perfetier, 
 So long as God is God, 
 fa long is euer. 
 
 Who 
 
 i6
 
 Heauens Glory. 
 
 Ho loucs this life, 
 from loue his loue doth 
 A nd chnfing droffe, ( erre, 
 
 rich treafure doth denie, 
 Leaning the pearle, 
 
 Chrifls connfels to prefe^'re, 
 With felling all we haue, 
 
 the fame to btty: 
 O happy fonle, 
 
 that doth disburfc aftwmie, 
 To gaine a kingdome 
 
 in the life to come. 
 
 Such trajficke may be 
 termed heaiienly thrift, 
 
 Such 
 
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 Heauens Glory. 
 
 Suck venter hath no 
 
 hazard to diffiuade 
 Immortall purchafe, 
 
 ivith a niortall gift, 
 The greateji game 
 
 that etier Merchant made: 
 To get a crozmie 
 
 zuhere Saints and Angels fmg, 
 For laying out 
 
 a bafe and earthly thing. 
 
 To taste the ioyes 
 
 no humane knowledge kfiowes, 
 To heare the tunes 
 
 of the ccelestiall quires, 
 T'attaine heatH ns fweet 
 
 and mildefl calme repofe, 
 To fee Gods face 
 
 theftmzme of good defires : 
 Which by his glorious Saints 
 
 is howerly eyde, 
 
 Yet 
 
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 Heauens Glory. 
 
 Yetjlght witk/eemg, 
 
 
 netier fatisfide. 
 
 
 God as he is, 
 
 
 fight beyond estimate, 
 
 
 Which Angel, tongues 
 
 
 are vntaught to difcoiier, 
 
 
 VVhofefpIendor doth 
 
 
 The heatiens illustrate. 
 
 
 Vnto luhich Jight 
 
 
 each fight becomes a louer: 
 
 
 Whom all the glorious 
 
 
 court of heauen laud, 
 
 
 With praifes of 
 
 
 eternities applaud. 
 
 
 There where no teares are 
 
 
 to interpret grief es, 
 
 
 Nor anyfghes, heart 
 
 
 dolours to expound. 
 
 
 There 

 
 Heauens Glory. 
 
 Thei'e where no treafiire 
 
 isfiirprisd by theeiies, 
 Nor any voice that fpeakes 
 
 with fo7'rowes found. 
 No vfe of pafsionSy 
 
 no difiempc7^ed thought, 
 Nofpot offinne, 
 
 710 deed of error wrought. 
 
 The natiue hoTne 
 
 of pilgri77ie fotdes abode, 
 Reffs habitatio7i, 
 
 ioyes true refide^ice, 
 Ierufale77is new Citie 
 
 biiilt by God, 
 Formd by the hands 
 
 of his ow7ie excelle7ice; 
 With gold-paii d fireets, 
 
 the wals of precious fione. 
 Where all foimd praife 
 
 to hint fits on the throne. 
 
 Heauens 
 
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 Heauens Glory. 
 
 HEAVENS 
 
 Glory^ Earths Va-- 
 
 nitie, and Hels 
 Torments. 
 
 Of the Glory of the blef- 
 fed Saints in Heauen. 
 
 O the end there miofht 
 want nothing to ftirre 
 vp our mindes to ver- 
 tue, after the paines which Al- 
 mighty God threateneth to the 
 B wicked, 
 
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 Heauens Glory 
 
 wicked, he doth alfo fet before 
 vs the reward of the good: 
 which is, that glory and euerla- 
 ftine hfe which the bleffed 
 Saints doe enjoy in heauen, 
 whereby hee doth very mighti- 
 ly allure vs to the loue of the 
 fame. But what manner of 
 thing this reward, and what this 
 life is, there is no tongue, nei- 
 ther of Angels nor of nen, that 
 is fufficient to expreffe it. How- 
 beit, that wee may haue fome 
 kinde of fauour and knowledge 
 thereof, I intend here to re- 
 hearfe euen word for word, 
 what S. Augti/line faith in one 
 of his meditations, fpeaking of 
 the life euerlafting (enfuing this 
 tranfitorie time) and of the 
 joyes of the bleffed Saints in 
 
 hea- 
 
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 Heauens Glory. 
 
 heauen. O life (faith he) prepa- 
 red by Ahnighty God for his 
 friends, a bleffed hfe, a fecure 
 Hfe, a quiet Hfe, a beautifull Hfe, 
 a cleane life, a chaft life, a holy 
 life; a life that knoweth on 
 death, a life without fadneffe, 
 without labour, without griefe, 
 without trouble, without cor- 
 ruption, without feare, without 
 variety, without alteration; a 
 life replenifhed with all beautie 
 and dignity; where there is nei- 
 ther enemy that can offend, nor 
 delight that can annoy, where 
 loue is perfedl, and no feare at 
 all, where the day is euerlafting, 
 and the fpirit of all is one; 
 where Almighty God is feene 
 face to face, who is the onely 
 meate whereupon they feed 
 B 2 with 
 
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 Hcatiens Gloiy. 
 
 without loathfomeneffe : it de- 
 lighteth mee to confider thy 
 brightneffe, and thy treafures 
 doe reioyce my longing heart. 
 The more I confider thee, the 
 more I am ftriken in loue with 
 thee. The great defire I haue of 
 thee, doth wonderfully delight 
 me, and no leffe pleafure is it to 
 me, to keepe thee in my remem- 
 brance. O life moft happy, O 
 kingdome truely bleffed, wher- 
 in there is no death nor end, 
 neither yet fucceffion of time, 
 where the day continuing euer- 
 more without night, knoweth 
 not any mutation; where the 
 vi6lorious conqueror beeing 
 ioyned with thofe euerlafting 
 quires of Angels; and hauing 
 his head crowned with a gar- 
 land 
 
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 Hemtens Glory 
 
 land of glory, fingeth vnto Al 
 mighty God one of the fongs 
 of Syo7i. Oh happy, yea, and 
 moft happy fhoiild my foule be, 
 if when the race of this my pil- 
 grimage is ended, I might bee 
 worthy to fee thy glory, thy 
 bleffedneffe, thy beautie, the 
 wals and gates of thy Citie, thy 
 ftreets, thy lodgings, thy noble 
 Citizens, and thine omnipotent 
 King in his moft glorious Ma- 
 ieftie. The ftones of thy wals 
 are precious, thy gates are ador- 
 ned with bright pearles, thy 
 ftreets are of very fine excel- 
 lent gold, in which there ne- 
 uer faile perpetuall praifes; thy 
 houfes are paved with rich 
 ftones, wrought throughout 
 with Zaphirs, and couered 
 B 3 about 
 
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 Heartens Glory. 
 
 aboue with maffie gold, where 
 no vncleane thing may enter, 
 neither doth any abide there 
 that is defiled, Faire and beauti- 
 ful! in thy delights art thou O 
 leritfaleni our mother, none of 
 thofe things are fuffered in thee, 
 that are fuffered here. There is 
 great diuerfitie betweene thy 
 things and the things that wee 
 doe continually fee in this life. 
 In thee is neuer feene neither 
 darkeneffe nor night, neither 
 yet any change of time. The 
 light that fliineth in thee, com- 
 meth neither of lampes, nor of 
 Sunne or Moone^ nor yet of 
 bright glittering Starres, but 
 God that proceedeth of God, 
 and the light that commeth of 
 light, is he that giueth clearenes 
 
 vn- 
 
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 Heauens Gloiy. 
 
 vnto thee. Euen the very King 
 of Kings himfelfe keepeth con- 
 tinuall refidence in the middeft 
 of thee, compaffed about with 
 his officers and feruants. There 
 doe the Angels in their orders 
 and quires fing a moft fweete 
 & melodious harmonic. There 
 is celebrated a perpetuall folem- 
 nitie and feaft with every one of 
 them that cometh thither, after 
 his departure out of this pilgri- 
 magfe. There be the orders of 
 Prophets; there is the famous 
 company of the Apoftles; there 
 is the inuincible army of Mar- 
 tyrs; there is the moft reuerent 
 affembly of confeffors; there 
 are the true and perfe^l; religi- 
 ous perfons; there are the holy 
 Virgines, which haue ouer- 
 B 4 come 
 
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 8 Heauens Glory. 
 
 come both the pleafures of the 
 world, and the frailtie of their 
 owne nature; there are the 
 young men and young women, 
 more ancient in vertue than in 
 yeares; there are the fheepe and 
 httle lambes that haue efcaped 
 from the wolues, and from the 
 deceitfull fnares of this life, and 
 therefore doe now keepe a per- 
 petuall feaft, each one in his 
 place, all alike in ioy, though 
 different in degree. There Cha- 
 ritie raigneth in her full per- 
 fe6lion, for vnto them God is 
 all in all, whom they behold 
 without end, in whofe loue they 
 be all continually inflamed, 
 whom they doe alwayes loue, 
 and in louing doe praife, and 
 in praifmg, doe loue, and all 
 
 their 
 
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 Heauens Glory. ^ 
 
 their exercifes confift in praifes, 
 without wearineffe, and with- 
 out trauell. O happie were I, 
 yea, and very happy indeed, if 
 at what time I fhall bee loofed 
 out of the prifon of this wret- 
 ched body, I might be thought 
 worthy to heare thofe fongs of 
 that heauenly melodie, fung in 
 the praife of the euerlafting 
 King, by all the Citizens of 
 that fo noble Citie. Happie 
 were I, and very happie, if I 
 might obtaine a roome among 
 the Chaplaines of that Chap- 
 pell, and wait for my turne 
 alfo to fmg my H alleluia. 
 If I might bee neare to my 
 King, my God, my Lord, 
 and fee him in his glory, euen 
 as hee hath promifed mee, 
 B 5 when 
 
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 lo Heattens Glory. 
 
 when he faid: O Father, this is 
 my lafl determinate will, that 
 all thofe that thou haft pfiuen 
 vnto me, may me with me, and 
 fee the glory which I had with 
 thee before the world was cre- 
 ated, Hetherto are the words of 
 S. Augujiine. Now tell mee 
 (Chriftian brother) what a day 
 of glorious fhine fhall that bee 
 vnto thee (if thou lead thy life in 
 Gods feare) when after the 
 courfe of this pilgrimage, thou 
 fhalt paffe from death to im- 
 mortallity; and in that paffage, 
 when others fhall beginne to 
 feare, thou fhalt beginne to re- 
 ioyce, and lift vp thy head, be- 
 caufe the day of thy deliuerance 
 is at hand. Come forth a little 
 (^faith S. lerome vnto the Vir- 
 
 gme 
 
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 Heatiens Glory. 1 1 
 
 gine Eujlochia) out of the prifon 
 of this body; and when thou 
 art before the gate of this Ta- 
 bernacle, fet before thy eyes the 
 reward that thou hopeft to 
 haue for thy prefent labours. 
 Tell me, what a day fliall that 
 bee, when our Lord himfelfe 
 with all his Saints, fhall come 
 and meete thee in the way, fay- 
 ing vnto thee: Arife and make 
 hajl O my beloued, my delight, and 
 my Turtle douej'or nozv the Win- 
 ter is pajl, and the tempejluous 
 waters are ceafedy the flowers doe 
 begimie to appeare in our land. 
 Cant. 2. How great ioy fhall thy 
 foule then receiue, when it fliall 
 be at that time prefented before 
 the Throne of the moft bleffed 
 Trinity, by the hands of the ho- 
 
 ly 
 
 3«
 
 12 Heauens Glory. 
 
 ly Angels, and when fhall bee 
 declared thy good workes, and 
 what croffes, tribulations, and 
 iniuries thou haft fuffered for 
 Gods fake. A5ls g. S. Lttke wri- 
 teth, That when holy Tabitha, 
 the great almes gluer, was dead, 
 all the widdowes and poore 
 folke came about the Apoftle 
 S. Peter, fhewing vnto him the 
 garments which fhee had giuen 
 them: wherewith the Apoftle 
 being moued, made his prayer 
 vnto Almighty God for that 
 fo mercifull a woman, and by 
 his prayers he raifed her againe 
 to life. Now what a gladneffe 
 will it be to thy foule, when in 
 the middeft of thofe bleffed fpi- 
 rits thou flialt be placed, with 
 remembrance of thy almes 
 
 deeds, 
 
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 Hcauens Glory 
 
 13 
 
 deeds, thy prayers and faftings, 
 the innocency of thy life, thy 
 fuffering of wrongs and iniii- 
 ries, thy patience in affli6lions, 
 thy temperance in diet, with all 
 other vertues and orood workes 
 that thou haft done in all thy 
 life. O how great ioy fhalt 
 thou receiue at that time for all 
 the good deeds that thou haft 
 wrought; how clearely then 
 fhalt thou vnderftand the value 
 and the excellencie of vertue. 
 There the obedient man fhall 
 talke of vi6lories; there vertue 
 fhall receiue her reward, and 
 the good honoured according 
 to their merite. Moreouer, 
 what a pleafure will it bee 
 vnto thee, when thou flialt 
 fee thy felfe to bee in that 
 
 fure 
 
 33
 
 14 Hemiens Glory. 
 
 fure hauen, and fhalt looke back 
 vpon the courfe of thy nauiga- 
 tion which thou haft failed here 
 in this Hfe: when thou fhah re- 
 member the tempefts wherein 
 thou haft been toffed, the ftraits 
 through which thou haft paffed, 
 and the dangers of theeues and 
 pyrats, from whom thou haft 
 efcaped. There is the place 
 where they fhall fmg the fong 
 of the Prophet, which faith, 
 Had it not becne that our Lord 
 had beene mine helper, it could not 
 be but my foule had gone i^ito helL 
 Efpecially, when from thence 
 thou fhalt behold fo many fms 
 as are committed every houre 
 in the world, fo many foules 
 as doe defcend euery day into 
 hell, and how it hath plea- 
 fed 
 
 34
 
 Heauens Glo7y. 
 
 15 
 
 fed Almighty God, that among 
 fuch a multitude of damned 
 perfons, thou fliouldft be of the 
 number of his ele(5l, and one of 
 thofe to whom he would erant 
 fuch exceeding great felicity 
 and glory. Befides all this, what 
 a goodly fight will it bee to fee 
 thofe feats filled vp, and the Ci- 
 tie builded, and the wals of that 
 noble Ie7'iifale7}i repaired again? 
 With what chearefull embra- 
 cings fhall the whole court of 
 heauen entertaine them, behol- 
 ding them when the come loa- 
 den with the fpoiles of their 
 vanquifhed enemies ? There 
 fhall thofe valiant men and wo- 
 men enter with triumph, which 
 haue together with the world 
 conquered the weakeneffe of 
 
 their 
 
 35
 
 1 6 Heauens Glory. 
 
 their owne fraile nature. There 
 fhall they enter which haue fuf- 
 fered martyrdom e for Chrifts 
 fake, with double triumph ouer 
 the fl fh and the world, ador- 
 ned with all coelefliall glory. 
 There fhall alfo daily enter ma- 
 ny young men and children, 
 which haue vanquifhed the ten- 
 derneffe of their young yeares 
 with difcretion and vertue. Oh, 
 how fweet and fauorie fhall the 
 fruit of vertue then be, although 
 for a time before her roots fee- 
 med very bitter: fweete is the 
 cold euening after the hote 
 funnie day; fweete is the foun- 
 taine to the weary thirftie tra- 
 uailer; fweet is reft and fleepe 
 to the tired feruant: but much 
 more fweet is it to the Saints in 
 
 hea- 
 
 36
 
 Heatiens Glory. 17 
 
 heauen to enioy peace after 
 warre, fecurity after perill, eter- 
 nall reft after their paines, and 
 trauels: for then are the warres 
 at an end, then need they no 
 more to goe all armed, both on 
 the right fide and on the left. 
 The children of Ifrael went 
 forth armed towards the land 
 of Promife, but after that the 
 land was conquered, they laid 
 downe their fpeares, and caft a- 
 way their armour, and forget- 
 ting all feare and turmoile of 
 warre, each one vnder the fhad- 
 dow of his pavillion & harbour 
 enioyed the fruit of their fweet 
 peace. Now may the watching 
 Prophet come downe from his 
 ftanding, that did watch and fix 
 his feete vpon the place of the 
 
 Sen- 
 
 37
 
 i8 
 
 Heauens Gloiy 
 
 Sentinell: There is no more 
 feare of inuafion by the terrible 
 armies of the bloody enemies: 
 there is no place for the fubtill 
 crafts of the lurking viper •. there 
 cannot ariue the deadly fight of 
 the venomous Bafeliske, nor 
 yet fhall the hifhng of the anci- 
 ent Serpent be heard there; but 
 onely the foft breathing ayre of 
 the holy Ghoft, wherein is be- 
 holden the glory of Almighty 
 God. This is the region of all 
 peace, the place of fecurity, fitu- 
 ated aboue all the Elements, 
 whether the cloudes and ftor- 
 mie winds of the darke ayre 
 cannot come. O what olorious 
 things haue beene fpoken of 
 thee, O Citie of God. Bleffed 
 are they (faith holy Tobias) that 
 
 loue 
 
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 Heaiie7is Glory. 
 
 19 
 
 loue thee, and enioy thy peace. 
 O my foule praife our Lord, for 
 he hath deliuered lerufalem his 
 Citie from all her troubles. 
 Happy fhall I be, if the remnant 
 of my poflerity might come to 
 fee the cleareneffe of leru/alem : 
 her gates fliall be wrought with 
 Zaphirs and Emeraulds, and all 
 the circuit of her wals fhall bee 
 built with precious ftones, her 
 ftreets fhall bee paued with 
 white and polifhed marble, and 
 in all parts of her territories fhal 
 bee fung Hallebiia. O ioyfull 
 countrey! O fweete glory! O 
 bleffed companie! who fhall 
 be thofe fo fortunate and happy 
 that are ele6led for thee ? It fee- 
 meth a prefumption to defire 
 thee, and yet I will not Hue 
 
 with- 
 
 39
 
 20 
 
 Heauens Glory 
 
 without the defire of thee. O 
 ye fonnes of Adam, a race of 
 men, miferably Winded and de- 
 ceiued. O ye Scattered fheepe, 
 wandring out of your right 
 way, if this be your fheep-coat, 
 whether goe you backeward? 
 What meane you? Why fuf- 
 fer you fuch an excellent bene- 
 fit to be wilfully loft for not ta- 
 king fo little paines? What 
 wife man would not defire, that 
 all labour & paine of the world 
 were impofed vnto him? that 
 all forrowes, afili6lions, and di- 
 feafes were euen poured vpon 
 him as thicke as haile; that 
 perfecutions, tribulations, and 
 griefes, with one to molefl him, 
 another to difquiet him, yea, 
 that all creatures in the world 
 
 did 
 
 40
 
 Heaucns Glory. 
 
 21 
 
 did confpire againft him, being 
 fcorned and made a lauohinof 
 ftocke of all men; and that his 
 whole life were conuerted into 
 weepings and lamentations; fo 
 that in the next life hee misfht 
 finde repofe in the heauenly 
 harbor of eternall confolation, 
 and bee thought meet to haue a 
 place among that bleffed peo- 
 ple, which are adorned and 
 beautified with fuch ineftima- 
 ble glory. And thou, O foo- 
 lifh louer of this miferable 
 world, go thy way, feek as long 
 as thou wilt for honors & pro- 
 motions, build fumptuons hou- 
 fes & pallaces, purchafe lands & 
 poffeffions, inlarge thy territo- 
 ries & dominions, yea, comand 
 if thou wilt the whole world, 
 
 yet 
 
 41
 
 2 2 Heauens Glory. 
 
 yet fhalt thou neuer bee fo great 
 as the leaft of all the feruants of 
 Almighty God, who fliall re- 
 ceiue that treafure which this 
 world cannot giue, and fhall en- 
 ioy that felicity, which fhall 
 endure for euermore, when 
 thou with thy pompe and ri- 
 ches, fliall beare the rich Qrlut- 
 ton company, whofe buriall is 
 in the deepe vault of hell: but 
 the deuout fpirituall man fhall 
 bee carried by the holy Angels 
 with poore Lazarus into Abra- 
 hams bofome, a place of perpe- 
 tuall reft, ioy, follace, and eter 
 nail happineffe. 
 
 Of
 
 Heatiens Glory. 
 
 23 
 
 Of the benefits which 
 
 our Lord pro7nifeth to 
 
 giue in this prefent life, 
 
 tofiicJi as Hue a iujl 
 
 and godly life. 
 
 Eradventure thou wilt 
 ^now fay, that all thefe 
 ^ thinors before rehear- 
 fed, be rewards & punifhments 
 onely for the life to come: and 
 that thou defireft to fee fome- 
 thing in this prefent life, becaufe 
 our minds are wont to be mo- 
 ued very much with the fight 
 of things prefent. To fatisfie 
 
 thee 
 
 43
 
 24 Heaueiis Glory. 
 
 I thee herein, I will alfo explaine 
 vnto thee what may anfwere 
 thy defire. For although our 
 Lord do referue the beft wine, 
 and the delicate difhes of moft 
 delight, vntill the end of the 
 banket, yet he fuffereth not his 
 friends to bee vtterly deftitute 
 of meate and drinke in this tedi- 
 ous voyage : for hee knoweth 
 very well, that they could not 
 otherwife hold out in their 
 iourne}^ And therefore when 
 he faid vnto Abraham, Feare 
 not Abraham, for I am thy de- 
 fender, and thy reward fhall be 
 exceeding great : By thefe 
 words he promifed two things, 
 the one for the time prefent. 
 that was, to bee his fafegard and 
 defence in all fuch thino^s as 
 
 may! 
 
 44
 
 Heattens Glory. 25 
 
 may happen in this Hfe; and the 
 other for the time to come, and 
 that is, the reward of glory 
 which is referued for the next 
 Hfe. But how great the firft pro- 
 mife is, and how many kinds of 
 benefits and fauours are there- 
 in inckided, no man is able to 
 vnderftand, but onely he, that 
 hath with great diligence read 
 the holy Scriptures, wherein no 
 one thing is more often repea- 
 ted and fet forth, than the great- 
 neffe of the fauours, benefits, 
 and priuiledges, which Almigh- 
 ty God promifeth vnto his 
 friends in this life. Hearken 
 what Salomon faith in the third 
 chapter of his Prouerbs, as 
 touching this matter. Bleffed is 
 that man that findeth loifdome, 
 
 C for 
 
 45
 
 26 Heauens Glory 
 
 for it is bette?' to Jimie it, than all 
 the t7''eafures of Siluer and Gold, 
 be they neuer fo excellent and pre- 
 cious: and it is iuot'c worth than 
 all the riches of the zuorld, and 
 zvhatfoeuer mans heart is able to 
 defire, is not comparable vnto it. 
 The length of daics are ad her 
 right hand, and riches and glo- 
 rie at her left. Her ivaies beplea- 
 fant, and all her paffages be quiet', 
 fJte is a tree of life to all thofe that 
 haue obtained her: and hee that 
 fJiall hatie her in continuall pof 
 fefsion, fiall be blefjcd. Keepe 
 therefore (O my forme) the lawes 
 of Almightie God, and his coun- 
 fell, for they f] tall be as life to thy 
 foule, and fweetncffe to thy tafle. 
 Then flialt thou walke fafely in 
 thy zuaies, and thy feet fliall not 
 
 finde 
 
 46
 
 Heatie^is Glory. 
 
 27 
 
 fi7ide any Jiumd ling blockes. If 
 thottjleep, thouJJialt ha2ie no caufe 
 to fear e : and if thou take thy reft, 
 thy fleepe fhall be quiet. This is 
 the fweetneffe and quietiieffe 
 of the way of the godly, but 
 the wayes of the wicked are 
 farre different, as the holy Scrip- 
 ture doth declare vnto vs. The 
 paths and wayes of the wicked 
 (faith Ecclcfiafiiciis) are full of 
 brambles, and at the end of 
 their iourney are prepared for 
 them, hell, darkneffe, and pains. 
 Doefl thou thinke it then a 
 good exchange, to forfake the 
 wayes of Almighty God, for 
 the waies of the world, fith there 
 is fo great difference betweene 
 the one and the other, not one- 
 ly in the end of the way, but alfo 
 
 C 2 
 
 in 
 
 47
 
 28 
 
 Heauens Glory 
 
 in all the fteps of the fame? 
 What madneffe can be greater, 
 than to choofe one torment, to 
 gaine another by; rather than 
 with one reft to gaine another 
 reft? And that thou maift more 
 clearely perceiue the excellen- 
 cy of this reft, and what a num- 
 ber of benefits are prefently in- 
 cident thereunto, I befeech thee 
 harken attentiuely euen what 
 Almighty God himfelfe hath 
 promifed by his Prophet Efay, 
 to the obferuers of his law, in a 
 manner with thefe words, as 
 diuers interpreters doe ex- 
 pound them. When thou fhalt 
 doe (faith hee) fuch and fuch 
 things, which I haue comman- 
 ded thee to doe, there fhall 
 forthwith appeare vnto thee 
 
 the 
 
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 Hcauens Glory. 29 
 
 the dawning of the cleare day 
 (that is, the fonne of iuflice) 
 which fliall driue away all the 
 darkeneffe of th)' errours and 
 miferies, and then flialt thou 
 begin to enioy true and perfit 
 faluation. Now thefe are the 
 benefits which Almighty God 
 hath promifed to his feruants. 
 And albeit fome of them be 
 for the time to come, yet are 
 fome of them to be prefently 
 receiued in this life: as, that new 
 light and fhining from heauen; 
 that fafety and abundance of 
 all good things; that affured 
 confidence and truft in the al- 
 mighty God; that diuine affi- 
 flance in all our Prayers and Pe- 
 titions made vnto him; that 
 peace and tranquility of confci- 
 C 3 ence; 
 
 45
 
 o 
 
 o Heauens Glory. 
 
 jence; that prote<5lion and pro- 
 juidence of Almighty God. All 
 thefe are the orracious sfifts and 
 Ifauours which Almighty God 
 I hath promifed to his feruants in 
 this life. They are all the works 
 of his mercy, effects of his grace, 
 teftimonies of his loue, and 
 bleffmgs, which he of his father- 
 ly prouidence extendeth. 
 
 To be fhort, all thefe benefits 
 doe the godly inioy both in this 
 prefent life, and in the life to 
 come: and of all thefe are the 
 vngodly depriued, both in the 
 one life, and in the other. 
 Whereby thou maift eafily per- 
 ceiue, what difference there 
 is betweene the one fort and 
 the other, feeing the one is fo 
 rich in graces, and the other fo 
 
 poore 
 
 50
 
 Heatiens Glory. 31 
 
 poore and needy: For if thou 
 ponder well Gods promifed 
 bleffings, and confider the ftate 
 and condition of the good and 
 the wicked, thou flialt find, that 
 the one fort is highly in the fa- 
 uour of Almighty God, and 
 the other deepely in his dif- 
 pleafure: the one be his friends, 
 and the other his enemies: 
 the one be in light, and the 
 other in darkeneffe : the one 
 doe enioy the company of An- 
 gels, and the other the fil- 
 thy pleafures and delights of 
 Swine : the one are truely 
 free, and Lords ouer them- 
 felues, and the other are be- 
 come bondflaues vnto Sathan, 
 and vnto their owne lufts and 
 appetites. The one are ioy- 
 
 C 4 full 
 
 51
 
 32 Heaucns Glory, 
 
 full with the witneffe of a good 
 confcience, and the other (^ex- 
 cept they bee vtterly blinded) 
 are continually bitten with the 
 worme of confcience, euer- 
 more gnawing on them : the 
 one in tribulation, ftand fted- 
 faftly in their proper place; and 
 the other, like light chaffe, are 
 carried vp and downe with e- 
 uery blaft of winde: the one 
 fhand fecure and firme with the 
 anker of hope, and the other 
 are vnftable, & evermore yeel- 
 ding vnto the affaults of for- 
 tune: the prayers of the one are 
 acceptable & liking vnto God, 
 and the praiers of the other are 
 abhorred and accurfed: the 
 death of the one is quiet, peace- 
 able, and precious in the fight 
 
 of 
 
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 Hcauens Glory. 
 
 33 
 
 of God, and the death of the o- 
 ther, is vnquiet, painefull, and 
 troubled with a thoufand 
 frights and terrours: To con- 
 clude, the one Hue like children 
 vnder the prote6lion and de- 
 fence of Almighty God, and 
 fleepe fweetly vnder the fhad- 
 dow of his paftorall proui- 
 dence; and the other being ex- 
 cluded from this kinde of pro- 
 uidence, wander abroad as ftrai- 
 ed fheepe, without their fheep- 
 heard and Mafter, lying wide 
 open to all the perils, dangers, 
 and affaults of the world. See- 
 ing then, that a vertuous life is 
 accompanied with all thefe 
 benefits, what is the caufe 
 that fhould withdraw thee, 
 and perfwade thee not to 
 C 5 em- 
 
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 14 Heaue7is Gloiy 
 
 embrace fuch a precious trea-i 
 fure? what art thou able to al-| 
 ledge for excufe of thy great I 
 negligence ? To fay that this is 
 not true, it cannot be admitted, 
 for fo much as Gods word doth 
 auouch the certaintie hereof. 
 To fay that thefe are but fmall 
 benefits, thou canft not, for fo 
 much as they doe exceede all 
 that mans heart can defire. To 
 fay that thou art an enemy vn- 
 to thy felfe, and that thou doeft 
 not defire thefe benefits, can- 
 not be, confidering that a man 
 is euen naturally a friend to 
 himfelfe, & the will of man hath 
 euer an eye to his owne benefit, 
 which is the very obie6l or mark 
 that his defire fhooteth at. To 
 fay that thou haft no vnderftan- 
 
 ding. 
 
 54
 
 Heanens Glory. 35 
 
 ding, nor tafte of thefe benefits, 
 it wil not feme to difcharo-e 
 thine offence, forfomuch as thou 
 hafl the faith and beleefe there- 
 of, though thou haft not the 
 tafte, for the tafte is loft through 
 finne, but not the faith : and the 
 faith is a witneffe more certaine, 
 morefecure, and better to be tru- 
 fted, than all other experiences 
 and witneffes in the world. 
 Why doeft thou not then dif- 
 credit all other witneffes with 
 this one affured teftimony? 
 Why doeft thou not rather 
 giue credit vnto faith, than 
 to thine owne opinion and 
 iudgement? O that thou woul- 
 deft make a refolute determi- 
 nation, to fubmit thy felfe into 
 the hands of Almighty God, 
 
 and 
 
 53
 
 f 
 
 6 Hcauens Glory. 
 
 and to put thy whole trufl affii- 
 redly in him. How foone 
 fhouldeft thou then fee all thefe 
 Prophefies fulfilled in thee: 
 then fhouldeft thou fee the ex- 
 cellency of thefe diuine trea- 
 fures : then fhouldeft thou fee 
 how ftarke blinde the louers of 
 this world are, that feeke not 
 after this high treafure: then 
 ftiouldeft thou fee vpon what 
 ofood gfround our Sauiour inui- 
 teth vs to this kinde of life, fay- 
 ing; Come vnto me all yec that 
 trattell, and are loaden, and I ivill 
 refreJJi you ; take my yoake vpon 
 you, and you Jliall fi7ide reji for 
 yotir foules : for my yoake isfzvcet, 
 and my burden is light. Almigh- 
 tie God is no deceiuer, nor falfe 
 promifer, neither yet is he a 
 
 great 
 
 56
 
 Heaucns Glory. 37 
 
 great boafter of fuch things as 
 he promifeth. Why doft thou 
 then fhrinke backe? why doft 
 thou refufe peace and true qui- 
 etneffe? why doft thou refufe 
 the gentle offers and fweet cal- 
 lings of thy Paftor? how dareft 
 thou defpife and banifli away 
 vertue from thee, which hath 
 fuch prerogatiues and priui- 
 ledges as thefe be : and withall, 
 confirmed and figned euen with 
 the hand of Almighty God ? The 
 Oueene of Saba heard far leffe 
 things than thefe of Salomon, 
 and yet ftie trauelled from the 
 vttermoft parts of the world, to 
 try the truth of thofe things 
 that ftie had heard. And why 
 doeft not thou then (hearing 
 fuch notable, yea, and fo cer- 
 
 taine 
 
 VI 

 
 38 Heauens Glory. 
 
 taine news of vertue) aduentiire 
 to take a little paines to try the 
 truth and fequell thereof? O 
 deare Chriftian brother, put 
 thy truft in Almighty God and 
 in his word, and commit thy 
 felfe moft boldly without all 
 feare into his armes, and vnloofe 
 from thy hands thofe trifling 
 knots that haue hitherto decei- 
 ued thee, and thou fhalt finde, I 
 that the merits of vertue doe| 
 farre excell her fame: and thatj 
 all which is fpoken in praife of i 
 her, is nothing in comparifon 
 of that which fhe is indeede. 
 
 That
 
 Heauciis Glory, 
 
 39 
 
 That a man ought not to 
 deferre his Repefdance a7id Con- 
 tierjion vnto God, from day to day, 
 co7iJideringhehathfo many debts 
 to difcharge, by rcafon of the 
 offences co7mn-itted in 
 his Jinf till life al- 
 ready pafi. 
 
 Ow then, if on the one 
 fide there be fo many 
 and fo great refpecSls, 
 that doe binde vs to change our 
 finfull Hfe ; and on the other fide, 
 we haue not any fufficient ex- 
 cufe why we flioiild not make 
 
 How long wih 
 thou 
 
 this exchange 
 
 59
 
 40 Heauens Glory. 
 
 thou tarry, vntill thou fully re- 
 folue to doe it? Turiie thine 
 eyes a little, and looke backe vp- 
 on thy life pafl, and confider, 
 that at this prefent (oi what age 
 foeuer thou be^ it is high time, 
 or rather, the time well nigfh 
 paft to begin to difcharge fome 
 part of thy old debts. Confider, 
 that thou which art a Chriftian 
 regenerated in the water of ho- 
 ly Baptifme, which doeft ac- 
 knowledge Almighty God for 
 thy father, and the Catholike 
 Church for thy mother, whom 
 fhe hath nourifhed with the 
 milke of the Gofpel, to wit, with 
 the do6lrine of the Apoftles 
 and Euangelifts: confider (I 
 fay) that all this notwithftan- 
 ding, thou haft lined euen as 
 
 loofely 
 
 60
 
 Heauens Glory. 41 
 
 loofely & diffolutely, as if thou 
 hadft beene a meere Iniidell, 
 that had neuer any knowledge 
 of Almighty God. And if thou 
 doe denie this, then tell mee 
 what kinde of fin is there which 
 thou haft not committed? 
 What tree is there forbidden 
 that thou haft not beholden 
 with thine eyes? What greene 
 meddow is there, in which thou 
 haft not (at the leaft in defire) 
 feafted thy letcherous luft? 
 what thing hath beene fet be- 
 fore thine eyes, that thou haft 
 not wantonly defired? What 
 appetite haft thou left vnexecu- 
 ted, notwithftanding that thou 
 didft beleeue in Almighty God, 
 and that thou wert a Chriftian? 
 what wouldeft thou haue done 
 
 more. 
 
 61
 
 42 Hcaticns Gloiy 
 
 more, if thou hadft not had any 
 faith at all? If thou hadft not 
 looked for any other life? If 
 thou hadft not feared the 
 dreadfull day of iudgement? 
 What hath all thy former life 
 beene, but a web of hnnes, a 
 fmke of vices, a way full of 
 brambles and thornes, and a fro- 
 ward difobedience of God ? with 
 whom haft thou hitherto lined, 
 but onely with thine appetite, 
 with thy flefti, with thy pride, 
 and with the goods and riches 
 of this tranfitory world ? Thefe 
 haue beene thy gods, thefe haue 
 beene thine idols, whom thou 
 haft ferued, and whofe lawes 
 thou haft diligently obeyed. 
 Make thine account with the 
 Almighty God, with his lawes, 
 
 and 
 
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 Hcattens Glory. 
 
 43 
 
 and with his obedience, and 
 peraduenture thou fliah finde, 
 that thou haft efleemed him no 
 more, than if he had beene a 
 god of wood, or ftone. For it is 
 certaine, that there be many 
 Chriftians, which beleeuing 
 that there is a God, are induced 
 to fnme with fuch faciHtie, as 
 though they beleeued, that 
 there were no God at all: and 
 doe offend no whit the leffe, 
 though they beleeue that there 
 is a God, then they would doe, 
 if they beleeued there werei 
 none at all. What greater iniu- j 
 rie, what greater defpight can 
 bee done, than fo to con- 
 temne his diuine maieflie? 
 Finally, thou beleeuing all 
 fuch things as Chrifls Church 
 
 doth 
 
 63
 
 44 
 
 Heauens Glory 
 
 doth beleeue, haft notwithftan- 
 ding fo led thy Hfe, as if thou 
 wert perAvaded, that the be- 
 leefe of Chriftians were the 
 greateft fables or lies in the 
 world. And if the multitude of 
 thy finnes paft, and the faculty 
 thou haft vfed in committing of 
 them, doe not make thee afraid, 
 why doeft thou not feare at the 
 leaft the Majefty and omnipo- 
 tencie of him_, againft whom 
 thou haft fmned ? Lift vp thine 
 eyes, and confider the infinit 
 greatneffe and omnipotencie of 
 the Lord, whom the powers of 
 heauen no adore, before whofe 
 Maiefty the whole compaffe 
 of the wide world lyeth pro- 
 ftrate; in whofe prefence, all 
 things created, are no more 
 
 than 
 
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 Hcatteiis Glory. 
 
 45 
 
 than chaffe carried away with 
 the winde. Confider alfo with 
 thy felfe how vnfeemely it is, 
 that fuch a vile worme as thou 
 art, fhould haue audacity fo ma- 
 ny times to offend and prouoke 
 the wrath of fo great a maiefty. 
 Confider the wonderfull and 
 mofl terrible fcuerity of his iu- 
 flice, and what horrible punifh- 
 ments he hath vfed from time 
 to time in the world aofainft 
 fmne; and that not onely vpon 
 particular perfons, but alfo vp- 
 on Cities, Nations, Kingdomes 
 and Prouinces, yea, vpon the v- 
 niuerfall World: And not one- 
 ly in earth, but alfo in heauen; 
 and not onel)^ vpon ftrangers 
 fmners, but euen vpon his 
 owne moft innocent fonne, our 
 
 fweet 
 
 65
 
 46 
 
 Heatiens Glory. 
 
 fweet Sauioiir lefus Chrift, 
 when he tooke vpon him to fa- 
 tlsfie for the debt that we owed. 
 And if this feuerity was vfed 
 vpon greene and innocent 
 wood, and that for the finnes of 
 others; what then will he doe 
 vpon dry and withered wood, 
 and aofainfl thofe that are loden 
 with their owne finnes? Now, 
 what thing can bee thought 
 more vnreafonable, then that 
 fuch a fraile wretch as thou art, 
 fhould be fo faucie and mala- 
 pert, as to mocke with fo migh- 
 tie a Lord, whofe hand is fo 
 heauie, that in cafe hee fhould 
 ftrike but one ftroke vpon thee, 
 hee would at one blow driue 
 thee downe headlong into the 
 deepe bottomeleffe pit of hell, 
 
 with- 
 
 66
 
 Heauens Glory. 47 
 
 without remedy. Confider like- 
 wife the great patience of this 
 our mercifull Lord, who hath 
 expe6led thy repentance fo 
 long, euen from the time that 
 thou didft firft offend him : and 
 thinke, that if after fo long pa- 
 tience and tarrying for thee, 
 thou fhalt ftill continue thy 
 leaud and fmfull life, abufmg 
 thus his mercy, and prouoking 
 him to further indignation and 
 wrath, hee will then bend his 
 bowe, and fhake his fword, and 
 raine downe vpon thee euen 
 fharpe arrowes of euerlafting 
 wrath and death. Confider alfo 
 the profoundneffe of his deepe 
 iudgments, wherof we read, and 
 fee daily fo great wonders. We 
 fee how Salofuou himfelfe, after 
 
 his 
 
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 48 Heauens Glory. 
 
 his fo great wifdome, and after 
 thofe three thoufand parables 
 and moft profound myfteries 
 vttered by him, was forfaken by 
 Almighty God, and fuffered to 
 fall down and adore Idols. We 
 fee how one of thofe feuen firft 
 Deacons of the Primitiue 
 Church, which were full of the 
 holy Ghoft, became not onely 
 an hereticke, but alfo an arch 
 hereticke and a father of here- 
 fies. We fee daily many fharres 
 fall downe from heauen vnto 
 earth, with miferable fals, and 
 to wallow themfelues in the 
 durt, and to eat the meat of 
 fwine, which fate before at 
 Gods owne table, and were fed 
 with the very bread of Angels. 
 If then the iuft and righteous 
 
 for 
 
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 Heaiiens Glory. 
 
 49 
 
 for fome fecret pride or negli- 
 gence, or elfe for fome ingrati- 
 tude of theirs) be thus iufhly for- 
 faken of Ahnighty God, after 
 they haue beftowed fo many 
 yeares in his feruice. What 
 maieft thou looke for^, that haft 
 done in a manner nothing elfe 
 in all thy life time, but onely 
 heaped fmnes vpon fmnes^ and 
 haft thereby offended almigh- 
 ty God moft grieuoufly? 
 
 Now, if thou haft liued after 
 this fort, were it not reafon that 
 thou fhouldft now at the length 
 giue ouer, and ceafe heaping 
 fmne vpon fnine, and debt vp- 
 on debt, and begin to pacifie 
 the wrath of Almighty God, 
 and to disburden thy fmfull 
 foule? Were it not meet, that 
 
 D that 
 
 69
 
 50 
 
 Hcmiens Gloiy. 
 
 that time which thou haft hi- 
 therto giuen to the world, to 
 thy flefli, and to the Diuell, 
 fliould fuffice? and that thou 
 ftiouldeft beftow fome httle 
 time of that which remaineth, 
 to ferue him, who hath giuen 
 thee all that thou haft ? Were it 
 not a point of wifedome. after 
 fo long time, and fo many great 
 iniuries, to feare the moft ter- 
 rible iuftice of Almighty God, 
 who the more patiently he fuf- 
 fereth fmners, the more hee 
 doth afterwards punifti them 
 with feueritie & iuftice? Were 
 it not meet for thee to feare thy 
 long continuance fo many 
 yeares in fmne, and in the dif- 
 pleafure of Almighty God, pro- 
 curing thereby againft thee fuch 
 
 a
 
 Heaue7ts Glory. 5 i 
 
 a mighty aduerfary as he is, and 
 prouoking him of a mercifull 
 louing father to become thy fe- 
 uere terrible iudge and enemy? 
 Were ir not meet to feare, leaft 
 that the force of euill cuftome 
 may in continuance of time be 
 turned into nature; and that thy 
 long vicious vfuall manner of 
 committing fmne^ may make of 
 a vice, a neceffity, or little leffe? 
 Why art thou not afraid, leafl 
 by little and little thou maieffc 
 caft thy felfe downe head long 
 into the deep pit of a reprobate 
 fence, whereinto after that a 
 man is once falne, hee neuer 
 maketh account of any fmne, be 
 it neuer fo great. 
 
 The Patriarke lacod faid vnto 
 
 Laban his father in law: Thefe 
 
 D 2 foure- 
 
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 52 Heauens Glory. 
 
 foureteene yeares haue I ferued 
 thee, and looking to thine af- 
 faires, now it is time that I 
 fhould looke to mine owne, 
 and begin to attend vnto the af- 
 faires of mine owne houfhold. 
 Wherefore if thou haft hkewife 
 beftowed fo many yeares in the 
 feriiice of this workl, and of this 
 fraile tranfitory life, were it not 
 good reafon, that thou fhoul- 
 deft now begin to make fome 
 prouifion for the faluation of 
 thy foule, and for the euerla- 
 fhing life to come? There is 
 nothing more fhort, nor more 
 tranfitory then the life of man ; 
 and therefore prouiding fo 
 carefully as thou doeft for all 
 fuch things as be neceffarie for 
 this life, which is fo fhort, why 
 
 doeft 
 
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 Heaueiis Glory. 53 
 
 doeft thou not prouide like- 
 wife fomewhat for the life that 
 is to come ? which life 
 fliall endure for 
 euer and 
 euer. 
 
 D 3 Earths 
 
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 54 Earths Vanity. 
 
 A Sigh. 
 
 H£^nce laziejleepe, 
 tho2tfo7ine offnllen night, 
 j That zvith foft-breathing Spels 
 
 keeps for roives voider 
 Thy charmes ; cheares vp 
 thefpirits zvith delight, 
 And laps the Sences 
 
 in Lethoean Jlimiber; 
 Packe and be gone: 
 
 for myfadfoule knowes well, 
 Care heft accordeth 
 luith a orloomie Cell. 
 
 And what more darke 
 
 then my fin-clouded Souk? 
 
 Where 
 
 74
 
 Earths Vanity. 
 
 Where yet the Snnne 
 
 of Sapience neiierj/tonc ; 
 But /till in Errors 
 
 vgly cane did ronle, 
 Where nonght keepes concord 
 
 but difcordant 7nonc: 
 Leaue me I fay, 
 
 and giue me leaue to tell, 
 That to my Soiile, 
 
 my felfe has not done well. 
 
 Good man ! {if good 
 
 there Hues one) Thou that art 
 So far re thrift 
 
 from the worlds imperious eyes ; 
 Helpe mc to aft 
 
 this penitentia II part : 
 I meane, No coyner 
 
 of iiezv Niceties, 
 Nor wodden Worfliipper : 
 
 Giue me him than 
 
 D 4 Thafs 
 
 55 
 
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 56 Earths Vanity. 
 
 That's a God-louing; 
 and good-lhdng man, 
 
 To be my partner 
 
 in this Tragedies 
 Who/efcenes run bleeding 
 
 through the zuounded A^s, 
 Heart-Jlruckc by Sinne 
 
 and Satans fallacie, 
 And pay/on d by 
 
 my felfe-committedfa^s : 
 Send me thy prayers, 
 
 if not thy prefence found, 
 To flop the Ore face 
 
 of this Jlreaming wound. 
 
 Steere me (fweet Sauiour) 
 zvhile Ifafe haue pafi 
 
 Thefiormie Buroclydons 
 of Defpaire, 
 
 Till 
 
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 Earths Vanity. 
 
 57 
 
 Till happily I kaue 
 
 arriud at Iq/l, 
 To touch at Thee, my Soules 
 
 fole-fauing Jiayre : 
 Tozv vp my Jin-frougJit Souk, 
 
 funkc downe beloiv, 
 And long lien iveltring 
 midjl the waties ofzuo. 
 
 New rig me vp, 
 
 left wallozuing I orcwhelme ; 
 Thy Mercy be my Main-mast \ 
 
 And for Sayles 
 My Sighs; thy Truth, my tackling; 
 
 Faith, my Helme: 
 My ballast, Loue; 
 
 Hope, Anchor that ne'refailes: 
 Then in Heart ns hauen 
 
 calme Peace ine arriue, 
 Where once enharbor d, 
 
 I JJiall richly thriue. 
 
 D 5 Woes 
 
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 58 
 
 Earths Vanity. 
 
 Woes me ! /ww long has 
 
 Pride befotted me ? 
 Propofmg to dim Reafoii 
 
 my good parts, 
 My nimble Wit, 
 
 my quickc proclitiitie 
 To Apprchenfion ; 
 
 and in high defarts 
 How many Jiood beneath me: 
 
 I (vaine foole) 
 Thus fob' d by Satansjleights, 
 
 ore-Jlipt my Sonle : 
 
 Who in darkc Error 
 
 downe embodied lies, 
 Blacke as the Star-leffe Night; 
 
 and Jiidconjly 
 Impuritie zuith rustic zvings 
 
 cr off e flies 
 Betivixt the Sunne of 
 
 Righteo7ifneffe and me ; 
 
 Whilft 
 
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 Earths Vanity. 
 
 59 
 
 VVhirjl (Bat-like) beats my Soule 
 
 her leather fayles 
 Gainjl the f oft Ayre; 
 
 and ri/ino; fals and failes, 
 
 Mujl I for each 
 
 vnfyllabled clofe Thought 
 Render account ? 
 
 O wit fi'lde Conference\ 
 Cal'din is thy proteflion then, 
 
 deare botight : 
 Hoiv was my brow 
 
 drehatcht zuith Impudence? 
 To let whole worlds of words 
 
 my cheekcs vpfwell, 
 The leafl of zvhom 
 
 ivo7ild ding me downe to Hell. 
 
 O wretched Impes 
 
 then of mans impious race \ 
 
 Whdl 
 
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 58 Earths Vanity. 
 
 Who I breath out Blafpheinies 
 
 to make a Ieji\ 
 Arid call zvit flajlii7ig 
 
 the fole punciuall grace 
 Of genuine hioivledge: 
 
 Btit among ft the I'eji, 
 Judge in what cafe 
 
 are thofe wit-huckflers in, 
 That hourely praclife 
 
 this fotile finking finne ? 
 
 O may my tongue 
 
 be euer riuctted 
 Fafi to my roofe, 
 
 but when it fp cakes Gods praife : 
 May not one vocall found 
 
 by breath be fed, 
 But when it carols out 
 
 celefiiall Layes ; 
 Let not one tone 
 
 through my tongues hatches fly e. 
 
 But 
 
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 Earths Vanity. 6 1 
 
 But what beares witJtt 
 keau7is oio7nes hamnonie. 
 
 ii' 
 
 Helpe (Lord of power ) fny 
 
 feeble-ioynted praiers 
 To clamber tJi azure Motmtaines 
 
 throzviie aboue me\ 
 And keepe a feat for nic there 
 
 mongjl thofe haires, 
 Apportion d out tofich 
 
 as trtiely loue thee : 
 Admit them in thine eares 
 
 a resting roome, 
 Vntill to thee and them, 
 
 my foiUe fJiall come. 
 
 Meane while, moyf eyd 
 
 Repentance here beloiu 
 Shall, Inmate wife be 
 
 Tenant to my mi^ide: 
 
 For 
 
 8i
 
 62 
 
 Earths Vanity. 
 
 For Prayers, without true 
 
 Penitence, doejhow, 
 " Like meats v7ifeafoii d, 
 
 or like Bils vnfignd; 
 " Or come on tops of 
 
 Cottages that growes, 
 " Which (v/elej/e) no man 
 
 either reapes or /owes, 
 
 how my Soule s furpriz d 
 with JJiallow f cares ? 
 
 When, thinking to leane on 
 Lifes broken Jlaffe\ 
 
 And counting to mine age 
 large funimes of yeares, 
 
 1 heare thefzveet 
 
 and f acred Pfalmograph, 
 Compare Life to a Flowre, 
 
 a Puffe, a Span; 
 Whds Monarch now, 
 
 next minutes not a Man. 
 
 Mufl 
 
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 Earths Vanity. 
 
 63 
 
 Mujl I needs dye ? 
 
 whyfurfet I 07t Pleafiire ? 
 MmJI I needs dye? 
 
 zvhy fwifii I in Delight ? 
 Muji I needs dye? 
 
 zvhy /quint I after Treafure ? 
 Mii/i I needs dye? 
 
 why Hue I not aright ? 
 Muft I needs dye? 
 
 why Hue I then in Jin? 
 Thrice better for me 
 
 I had neuer bin. 
 
 Foimtaine of breathing Dujl? 
 
 fuch grace me giue, 
 That I in life, 
 
 prepare in duJl to lye\ 
 Let me be dying fill 
 
 zvhiles I doe liue\ 
 That I may blisfull litie, 
 
 when I fiall dye : 
 
 For 
 
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 64 Earths Vanity. 
 
 For m Christs Schoole 
 
 this Paradox learne I; 
 Who dies before he dies, 
 JJiall neuer die. 
 
 If I mtfl die, 
 
 the7i after mufi begin 
 The life of loy or 
 
 Torment, without end; 
 The life of Torment 
 
 purchasd is by finne; 
 The life of loy, by life 
 
 that learnes f amend: 
 Why fliould I then prophane, 
 
 fweare, ctirfe, hift, lie, 
 If I but thinke on this', 
 
 That I mufl die ? 
 
 Whyfhottld I quafe 
 to more then Nature can? 
 
 Sith 
 
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 Earths Vanity. 
 
 65 
 
 Sith more drinke I gaine 
 
 more tojje is mine : 
 For may I not be tearmd 
 
 a bestiall man, 
 To drowne my Reafon 
 
 in a cup of wine ? 
 Yea tenfold zvojfe : 
 
 Thus monfier made at leqfl: 
 God made me Man, 
 
 I m,ake my felfe a Beafi. 
 
 How f welt I with hard trauell 
 
 through the Dale 
 That leads to Prophanations 
 
 irkefome cell? 
 But freeze, by foftly 
 
 pacing vp the skale. 
 Where burning zeale, 
 
 and her bright fiflers divell: 
 Thus fw eat I in thefJiadoiv, 
 fJiake i' thfJiine, 
 
 And 
 
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 66 
 
 Earths Vanity. 
 
 And by free choice, 
 front good to ill decline. 
 
 Sweet Sauiour cleanfe 
 
 my leprous loathfome foule 
 In that depurpled Fotmt, 
 
 which forth thy fide 
 Gurgling, did twixt two 
 
 Lilly -mountaines roule, 
 To rinfe Mans tainted Race, 
 
 Sin-foylifide : 
 WafJi it 7nore zvhite 
 
 then the triumphant Swan, 
 That rides d thfiluer breft 
 
 of Eridan. 
 
 Stiff er my prayers 
 
 harmony to rife 
 Into thine eares, 
 
 while tJi Angels beare a pari: 
 
 Accept 
 
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 Earths Vanity. 67 
 
 Accept my Sighs, 
 
 as fmclling Sacrifice, 
 Sent from the Altar 
 
 o/my bleeding heart; 
 Vp to thy nostrils, fweet 
 
 as til Oyle of Aaron, 
 Or tJi odoriferoMS Rofe 
 
 of flowrie Sharon. 
 
 The Hart nere long'd more 
 
 for the purling brookes; 
 Nor did the lufifull Goate 
 
 zvith more p7trfuit, 
 After the bloffomd 
 
 Tritifolic looke. 
 Then dds my panting Sonle, 
 
 f enioy the fruit 
 Of thy Life-water', 
 
 ■which if I attainc 
 To taste of once, 
 
 I nerefiall thirfl againe, 
 
 Euen 
 
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 68 
 
 Earths Vanity, 
 
 t^^- 
 
 Etien as the chapped ground 
 
 in Summers heat, 
 Cats to the clouds, 
 
 and gapes at etiery JJtowre : 
 Whofe thirjlie Cafmds 
 
 greedily intreat, 
 As tho they would 
 
 tJi whole hotife ofheatin deuour\ 
 So dds 7ny riiten Soule, 
 
 beparcht with fin, 
 Yawne wide, to let 
 
 mo)fi drops of Mercie in. 
 
 Earths 
 
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 Eart/is Vanity 
 
 71 
 
 Earths vmiitie. 
 
 Anitic of vanities, and 
 ^all is but vanitic, faith 
 
 the wifeft Preacher 
 that euer wrote : One generation 
 paj/etk, and anothe?^ com^neth, and 
 all is hit vexation of fpirit. 
 Which diuine theorem, that 
 we may the better perceiue, let 
 vs fet our fekies to the ferious 
 meditation of it: for the more 
 we fearch, the more we fhall fee 
 all things to be vanity, nothing 
 conftant, nothing for our eter- 
 
 nall 
 
 89 
 
 (f
 
 JO Earths Vanity. 
 
 nail good, but our foules falua- 
 tion. Mans life on earth doth 
 no fooner begin, but his end ap- 
 proacheth, his death hafteneth. 
 Some come vpon the ftage of 
 this world but to haue a brea- 
 thing, and are prefently gone; 
 others ftay a while longer, it 
 may be a day, perhaps a weeke, 
 perhaps a month, peraduenture 
 a yeare, or it may be fome 
 few yeares: but alas! the lon- 
 ger they ftay, the greater their 
 griefe, care, feare, and anxietie 
 of minde. Euen in the infancie 
 of age man is oft times left as 
 Mofes fometime was, in the 
 fiouds of mifery; but as age in- 
 creafeth, forrow increafeth, be- 
 caufe hnne increafeth: when 
 youth runnes moft at randome, 
 
 and 
 
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 Earths Vanity. 71 
 
 and thinketh it felfe mod fafe, it 
 is then hemm'd in with crrea- 
 tefl dangers; then the rafh- 
 foole-hardy minde of man hur- 
 rieth him headlong to hell, ex- 
 cept the irrefiftible power of 
 Gods preuenting grace doth 
 fpeedily ftay him; then his wits 
 are euen intoxicated with a 
 frenzie of iniquity, and wholly 
 bent vpon riotoufneffe, rafli- 
 neffe, luxury, iollitie, fuperflui- 
 ty and exceffe in carnall plea- 
 fures. Hee then deuoteth his 
 time, and addi6leth himfelfe to 
 all manner of euill, drinking, 
 dancing, reuelling, fwaggering, 
 fwearing, whoring, gaming, 
 quarelling, fighting; and in the 
 meane while neuer thinkes on 
 heauen, nor feareth hell. His 
 
 head 
 
 91
 
 74 Earths Vanity. 
 
 head is frought with vanities, 
 his heart with fallacies, where- 
 by his foiile is brought into a 
 labyrinth of inextricable mife- 
 ries. So great is the temerity of 
 his vnaduifed minde, that no 
 confideration of Gods iudgfe- 
 ments, either paft, or prefent, 
 or to come, can fet a ftop to his 
 wickedneffe. His youthful- 
 neffe damps at no bogges, quag- 
 mires, hils, or mountaines; but 
 wingeth him ouer all impedi- 
 ments, mounts him ouer all mo- 
 tiues that might way-lay his 
 fmnes. He fticks not to offend 
 his maker, to recrucifie his re- 
 deemer, to refift (fliall I fay his 
 fanclifier, no, but) the Spirit 
 whom God hath oiuen to be his 
 fan6lifier: and if hee fo carry 
 
 him- 
 
 92
 
 Earths Vanity. 
 
 himfelfe toward thefe, no mer- 
 uaile that he derideth his Tutor, 
 fcornes the Minifler (Hke the 
 Httle children that mock'd Eli- 
 /ha) opprefleth his poore bro- 
 ther (as Pharaoh did the Ifrae- 
 lites:) fpareth not Infants (no 
 more then Herod did ) regardeth 
 not parents (no more then Ho- 
 phin2i\\di Phinius did.) Let the 
 mother direct him, the father 
 corre6l him, his ancients in- 
 flru6l him, alas! all is in vaine: 
 youth makes men head-ftrong, 
 felfe-conceited, and proud, fo 
 that they fwell with an ouer- 
 weening opinion of their owne 
 worth; they thinke themfelues 
 the onely wits of the time, the 
 onely men of the world, more 
 fit to teach others then to learn 
 E them 
 
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 74 
 
 Earths Vanity 
 
 pra.2.2,3. 
 
 Neguities 
 vitce noit 
 finit effe 
 fcnetn. 
 
 themfelues, more able to giue 
 then to take aduice. If they goe 
 on a while in their lewd cour- 
 fes without the reftraining and 
 renewing Grace of God, they 
 get a habit of euill, are hardned 
 through the cuflome of finne, 
 none may refift them, none 
 compare with them, no law of 
 God or man can reflraine them ; 
 They take coiinfcl together againjl 
 the Lord, and againjl his an?ioin- 
 ted, faying, Let vs breake their 
 bands afinider^ and cafi away their 
 cords from vs. Whereupon of- 
 tentimes (the ripeneffe of fmne 
 being haftened by outragiouf- 
 neffe of fmning) God fuddenly 
 cuts them off, in their intempe- 
 rancy, luxury, quarrels, and dif- 
 orders; which fhewes their 
 
 vainneffe 
 
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 Earths Vanity. 
 
 75 
 
 vainneffe to be meere vanity. 
 Suppofe they grow as great as 
 Tamberlaine, yet a Gunne, Pike 
 Arrow; nay, a Fly, Flea, or Gnat; 
 a dram, nay, a drop of poyfon, 
 proiies them to be vaine men: 
 one of thefe filly creatures may 
 fend him prefently to his crea- 
 tour to receiue his final doome. 
 Yet alas! what doe thefe mod 
 minde? The bum-bafted filken 
 Gallants of our time, that come 
 forth like a May morning, deck- 
 ed with all the glory of Art; the 
 Epicurean Corme rants, the guf- 
 ling and tipling toffe-pots, the 
 dainty painting Dames, the de- 
 licate mincing Ladies, the 
 fweet-fmging Syrens, the dan- 
 cing Damfels, the finicall 
 youths, the couzening Shop- 
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 76 Earths Vanity. 
 
 keeper, the crafty Crafts-man: 
 I fay, what doe all thefe, but fet 
 their minds vpon vanitie ? vp- 
 on glory, honour, pride, droffe, 
 and fuch like trafli, which 
 weighed in the ballance of the 
 San6luary proue lighter then 
 vanity? Doe we not fometime 
 fee more fpent vpon one fuite in 
 Law then would keepe a poore 
 Country towne with the inha- 
 bitants for a whole yeare ? See 
 wee not more fpent vpon one 
 fuite of apparell, for one proud 
 carkaffe, then would build a 
 Free-fchoole ? So that the 
 cloathes on many a Gallants 
 backe exceeds his Rent-day. 
 See we not more fpent vpon a 
 Feaft to fatisfie the curiofity of 
 a few, then would fatisfie the 
 
 neceffity 
 
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 Earths Vanity. yj 
 
 neceffity of a hundred poore 
 wretches almofl famiihed to 
 death? See wee not more 
 drunke in a Tauerne at one fit- 
 ting by a fmall company, then 
 would feme a troope of fturdy 
 Souldiers in the field? Many 
 goe daily to the Tauern, where 
 they fticke not to fpend their 
 twelue pence, who would 
 grudge to giue one penny, nay, 
 one farthing to a hungry beg- 
 ger. Againe, is there not now 
 more fpent vpon a Ladies fea- 
 ther, then would pay a meane 
 mans tythes? Is there not more 
 fpent vpon one paire of fleeues 
 then would cloath fixe bodies? 
 and more fpent at a Whitfun- 
 ale, then would keepe the poore 
 of the Parifh for a yeare ? Haue 
 
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 E ^ we 
 
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 78 
 
 Earths Vanity. 
 
 wee not amongft our Gentry, 
 fome of the female fexe, who 
 will fpend more vpon a Glaffe 
 and a pot of complexion, then 
 they will giue a whole yeare at 
 their gate? they muft be men- 
 ders of that which God makes, 
 makers of that which God 
 marres, turning themfelues (like 
 the Camelion) into all fhapes, 
 though neuer fo grifly and vg- 
 ly; and being neuer well till 
 they be moft ill, neuer (as they 
 conceit) in fafhion, till indeede 
 they be out of all fafhion. If this 
 be not a vanity of vanities, who 
 can tell what is vanity? Euery 
 man is an eye-witneffe of this 
 vanity^ the more is the pittie 
 that it fhould be fo common: 
 your Lady, the Merchants wife, 
 
 the 
 
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 the trades mans wife, nay, all 
 of all forts are a degree aboue 
 their eftate. Your Gallant is 
 no man, vnleffe his haire be of 
 the womans fafhion, daneline 
 and wauing ouer his flioulders; 
 your woman no body, except 
 (contrary to the modefly of her 
 fexe) fhee be halfe (at leaft) of 
 the mans fafhion: fhee jets, 
 fhe cuts, file rides, fhee fweares, 
 fhe games, fhee fmoakes, fliee 
 drinkes, and what not that is e- 
 uill? She is in the vniuerfall 
 portraiture of her behauiour, as 
 well as in her accoutrements, 
 more then halfe a man ; the man 
 on the other fide, no leffe wo- 
 manifli. Wee may well admire 
 and exclaime with the Poet, O 
 temporal O mores! O the times/ 
 
 E4 O 
 
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 8o Earths Vanity. 
 
 O the manners of thefe times! 
 O quantum eji in rebus mane! O 
 how great a nothing is there in 
 all things ! What a vanity of va- 
 nity hath ouerfpread the age we 
 hue in? Were our forefathers 
 now aliue to be fpe6lators of 
 this vanity, it would ftrike them 
 into amazement. In their dayes 
 the Pike, the Speare, the Sword, 
 the Bowe, the Arrow, Musket 
 and Calieuer, with the warlike 
 Horfe, were the obie6l of exer- 
 cife and recreation: Now the 
 Pot, the Pipe, Dice and Cards, 
 and fuch like vanities, indeede 
 worfe then the quintefcence of 
 the extreamefl vanity. We are 
 now all for eafe, wee muft lye 
 foft, fare delicioufly, goe fump- 
 tuoufly, drinke Wine in bowles, 
 
 carowfe 
 
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 Earths Vanity. 
 
 8i 
 
 carowfe healths, till health be 
 quite drunke away; nay, wee 
 miift kneele to our clrinke, when 
 we will not kneele to him that 
 gaue vs our clrinke; we doe ho- 
 mage to that which takes away 
 the vfe of our legges, nay, of 
 our braines, our hearts, wits, 
 fence, reafon, when we refufe 
 homao-e to him that craue vs all 
 
 o o 
 
 thefe. O vaine man that doft 
 thus forget thy God, and abufe 
 thy felfe! why doft thou thus 
 fuffer thy felfe to be fwallowed 
 vp in the gulfe of vanity, which 
 hath no bottome but mifery? 
 Why fuffereft thou the Diuell 
 thus to take thee on the hip, that 
 he may call: thee downe into 
 the Abiffe of hell? Art thou fo 
 bewitched with that which will 
 E 5 haue 
 
 lOI
 
 82 
 
 Earths Vanity. 
 
 haue an end, a fudden end, a 
 wretched end? Thy hon}- will 
 proue Gall in the end, and thy 
 Wine Vinegar. In thefe faire 
 rofes of vanity the Diuell hides 
 his pins, that fhall pricke thee, 
 when thou lookeft to be re- 
 frefhed with their fweet fmels. 
 Thefe vanities wee purchafe at 
 no eafie rate; it is with the pro- 
 curement of punifhment, anrd 
 loffe of happineffe: As the bi d 
 that accepts of the Fowlers 
 meat buyes it full dearel}-, with 
 the loffe of her owne life: fo 
 when we accept thefe vanities 
 from the Diuell, it is with the 
 loffe of better things, in price a- 
 boue the whole world. In tliefe 
 contracts with Satan, we make 
 EfaiLS penniworth, fell heauen 
 
 for 
 
 1 02
 
 Earths Vanity. 
 
 83 
 
 for a meffe of pottage; Claiicus 
 exchange, Gold for Copper. 
 Now thou art pompering thy 
 corruptible flefh; but let pale 
 death ftep in, and clap thee on 
 the flioulder, wher s thy mirth, 
 wher's thy felicity? th)^ volup- 
 tuous vanity doth prefently ex- 
 pire. There is a banquet fet be- 
 fore thee, in which are all varie- 
 ties of delicacies, but alas! eue- 
 ry one poyfoned : dareft thou 
 touch or tafte any one of them? 
 by hn thou poyfoneft all thofe 
 outward bleffmgs of God, which 
 in themfelues are wholefome 
 and good: and wilt thou ingur- 
 gitate that which is poyfon to 
 thy foule? Tell me when all is 
 done, two or three hundred 
 yeares hence, what thou wilt be 
 
 the 
 
 lO"
 
 84 Earths Vanity. 
 
 the better for all thy dainties, 
 more then the poore man that 
 neiier tafted them? Nay, how 
 much better in the day of triall, 
 and at the houre of death ? Then 
 all thy pride, pompe, and plea- 
 fure fliall be turned into fqua- 
 led deformity, & irrecouerable 
 calamity; then vanity fhewes it 
 felfe in the proper colourS; then 
 death, and knell, and hell doe all 
 confpire to ag'grauate thy for- 
 row; yea, then hell begins to 
 come to thee before thou come 
 to it; thy eyes fleepe not, thy 
 fenfes reft not, thy perplexed 
 heart burnes within thee, thy 
 wounded confcience bleeds 
 within thee; thou feeft nothing 
 but terror, thou feeleft nothing 
 but horror; thou thinkeft thy 
 
 felfe 
 
 104
 
 Earths Vanity. 85 
 
 felf to be haunted with fprights, 
 ghofts, and helliih furies, fling- 
 ing- thee with Adders, purfuing 
 thee with Torches and fire- 
 brand. That faying of the Hea- 
 then man is then, if not before, 
 verified : Stioe quemqiie exagitant 
 fttrice; euery man is tormented 
 with his owne fury, which is his 
 confcience. Befides thy wife, 
 children, or other friends (to 
 the exafperating of thy griefe) 
 doe ftand about thee weeping, 
 as loath to part from thee: 
 whereas thy finnes follow thee, 
 and will follow thee, doe what 
 thou canft; hell gapes before 
 thee with a wide mouth as rea- 
 ry to deuoure thee, deftru6lion 
 on both fides attends thee: 
 backe thou canft not goe, for a 
 
 dead 
 
 105
 
 86 Earths Vanity, 
 
 dead corps followes thee fo 
 neere that thou canfl not part 
 from it, it is tied vnto thee with 
 an indiffolueable knot; befides, 
 confcience followes thee, and 
 cries out againft thee, and will 
 not leaue thee; continually it 
 prefents thee with the dreadfull 
 fpe6lacle of thy doleful and wo- 
 full finnes. If this were now 
 ferioufly confidered, how would 
 it make thy heart to ake with 
 grieuing, thy eyes to fwell with 
 weeping, thy hands to be al- 
 wayes lifted vjd, thy knees euer 
 bended? How wouldeft thou 
 ftriue to fubdue thy flefli to the 
 fpirit, fenfuality to reafon, reafon 
 to faith, and faith to the feruice 
 of God ? But thou dofh not now 
 confider this, that thy fmne is fo 
 
 fall 
 
 io6
 
 Earths Vanity. 87 
 
 faft linkt to thy confcience, that 
 at the laft (albeit not before) it 
 will pull and hale thee, and rack 
 and prick thy confcience, which 
 will accufe, conui6l, & condemn 
 thee: all thy vanities, all thy 
 iniquities, will then purfue thee 
 like fo man)' furious ghofls. 
 Then ex ore tuo, out of thy own 
 mouth fhalt thou be iudged, 
 thou euill feruant: thy owne 
 mouth fliall confeffe that thou 
 haft followed nothino- but va- 
 nity : What a vanity was it for 
 me to make earth my heauen, 
 and fo to admire & euen adore 
 this earth, that it is a hell to for- 
 fake it? What a wofull bargain 
 haue I made to fell my foule for 
 vanity? I was borne in vanity, 
 I haue liued in vanity, and it is 
 
 my 
 
 107
 
 88 Earths Vanity. 
 
 my feare that I fhall dye in va- 
 nity. Oh how griefe followeth 
 griefe ? my heart is terrified, my 
 thoughts hurried, my confci- 
 ence tortured, I fry in anguifli, 
 I freeze in paine, I ftand agaft 
 and know not which way to 
 turne me: my friends muft for- 
 fake me, my foes will deride me, 
 my earthly ioyes and comforts 
 (I fhould call them vanities) 
 haue betraid me. Indeede my 
 friends may goe with me to the 
 graue, but there they muft leaue 
 me; my riches, pleafures, and 
 fuch like vanities vanifh before; 
 but my fmnes and confcience 
 will neuer leaue me; the diuell 
 will ftill purfue me: hee that 
 tempts me now to fmne, will 
 then torment me for fuming 
 
 vntill 
 
 io8
 
 Earths Vanity. 89 
 
 vntill I cry out with Cain, My 
 pttniJJiment is greater then I can 
 beare. A horfe is but a vaine 
 thingtofauea man, faid the fweet 
 fing-er of Ifrael: fo fay I, all 
 earthly things are too vaine to 
 faue a man, to make him bleffed, 
 I appeale to the confcience of 
 euery man, if thou haft tried the 
 pleafures of vanity (and who 
 hath not?) whether thou maift 
 not take vp the words of Saint 
 Paul, What fruit haue I of thofe 
 things, zi) hereof I atn now afJia- 
 med} Shame, and griefe, and 
 guilt, and punifhment are the 
 fruit of vanity : enough I thinke 
 to rend our hearts from affe6l- 
 ing of it. Thinke vpon this thou 
 that art in the trace of vanity, 
 that thou maift make a retreat; 
 
 loofe 
 
 Rom. 6. 
 
 12. 
 
 109
 
 90 Earths Vanity, 
 
 loofe no more time herein (for 
 thou haft already loft too 
 much) redeeme tJic time, becaitfc 
 the dayes are euill\ and why are 
 they euill, but becaufe they are 
 vaine? Whatfoeuer is without 
 the circumference of euill, is 
 aboue the fphere of vanity. Re- 
 folue therefore with th)" felfe 
 that all things earthly, worldly, 
 carnall, fmfull, are vaine: the 
 fajliion of this world pajjfeth away, 
 faith the Apoftle, / Cor. 7. j. 
 The fajhion, to o-x^/^a, a word 
 very emphaticall: it fignifies 
 firft an accidentall and externall 
 figure without fubftance; fe- 
 condly, the habit, vefture or 
 cloathing of a thing. Saint Paul 
 vfeth this word to debafe the 
 world, by intimating vnto vs, 
 
 that 
 
 no
 
 Earths Vanity. 
 
 that the world is cloathed with 
 a vesture^ that is, wearing and 
 wafting, the faJJiion of it lafteth 
 but for a time, it is ready euery 
 houre to put on a nciv faJItion\ 
 againe, by intimating vnto vs, 
 that the world is ivithout any 
 fubstantiall forme, like vnto 
 Jliewes and J/iadowes, that vanifh 
 in the reprefentation. Saint Ltike 
 cals all Agrippds pompe but a 
 fancie: Dauid cdAs the yeares of 
 a man but a tale, Pfal. go. g. We 
 fpend our yeares as a tale that is 
 told. Asa tale, nay, as a thought 
 (for fo much the originall word 
 doth import) and how many 
 thoughts may a man haue in an 
 houre? Nothing is more chang- 
 able then a vejltire, nothing 
 more fugitiue then a JJiadow, 
 
 nothing 
 
 91 
 
 III
 
 92 Earths Vanity. 
 
 nothing more fickle then 2, fan- 
 cie, nothing more fwift then 
 thought. What a difproportion 
 therefore is it for the immortall 
 foule of a man to be faftened 
 vnto things which are of fuch a 
 variable nature? What a folly 
 for vs to preferre thofe which 
 are but momentary (for fo I may 
 more truely cal them then tem- 
 porall) vnto thofe things which 
 are indeede eternall ? Glaffes are 
 in great vfe amongfh vs, yet be- 
 caufe of their brittleneffe who 
 efteemes them precious? We 
 fmell to flowers, becaufe they 
 are fweet; but becaufe they are 
 fading, we regard them there- 
 after. It were well if we would 
 deale thus with all other vani- 
 ties, viz. regard them as they 
 
 are 
 
 112
 
 Earths Vanity. 
 
 93 
 
 are: vfe the creatures we may, 
 but not abufe them; ferue our 
 fekies of them, but not ferue 
 them; inioy them, but not ouer- 
 ioy in them. 
 
 Now becaufe examples are 
 are very effecfluall, whether we 
 vfe them by way of dehortation, 
 or whether by way of exhorta- 
 tion, let me propound one or 
 two in this matter whereof I 
 am treating, that by them thou 
 maift be beaten off from the va- 
 nities and iniquities of this pre- 
 fent euill world. When Alcx- 
 andej^ in the height of his glory 
 kept* a Parliament of the whole 
 world, himfelfe was fummoned 
 by death to appeare in another 
 world. It was a wonderfull 
 prefident of the vanity and va- 
 riety 
 
 Conneii- 
 tuiii ter- 
 raritin 
 07-bis. 
 
 11
 
 94 Earths Vaiiity. 
 
 riety of humane condition (faith 
 /;e/v/«/.^.|the Hiftorian) to fee mighty 
 Zei'xcs flote and flye away in a 
 fmall veffel, who before wanted 
 Sea-roome for his Ships. When 
 
 Dan. 5. BelJJiazzar was laughing and 
 quaffing with his Princes and 
 Concubines, carowfmg healths 
 in the facred Veffels; deaths fe- 
 cretary, the hand-writing on the 
 wall, told him he was weighed 
 in the ballance, and his King- 
 dome was finifhed. And before 
 him his father Nebuchadnezzar 
 (at that time the greateft Mo- 
 narch in the world) as he was 
 ftrouting in his Galleries, and 
 boafting of his owne power and 
 honour, a voyce from heauen 
 told him that his Kingdome 
 
 Dan. 4- was departed from him, that he 
 
 fhould 
 
 i 14
 
 EartJis Va7iity 
 
 95 
 
 fhould be driuen from amongft 
 men, that he fliould haue his 
 dwelling with the Beafts of the 
 field, &c. And the fentence was 
 fulfilled on him the fame hoiire. 
 So Zedekiah was a liiiely fpecl;a- 
 cle of this worlds vanity and 
 mifery, who of a potent King 
 became a miferable captiue, faw 
 his children flaine before his 
 face, after that had his eyes put 
 out, and died miferably in pri- 
 fon. I had almoft forgotten 6*^- 
 lomoity the wifeft King that euer 
 was, hauing giuen himfelfe to 
 take pleafure in pleafant things, 
 hauing made great workes, built 
 goodly Houfes, planted Vine- 
 yards, Gardens, and Orchards, 
 and planted in them trees of all 
 fruit, & hauing gathered filuer 
 
 and 
 
 2 Kin. 
 
 Eccl. 2. 
 
 "5
 
 96 Earths Vanity. 
 
 Eccl. I. 2 
 
 and gold, and the chiefe trea- 
 fures of Kings and Prouinces, 
 being now full of wifedome, 
 and fchooled with experience, 
 he is licenfed to giue his fen- 
 tence of the whole world, and 
 euery man knowes what his 
 cenfure was: Vanity of vani- 
 ties, vanity of vanities, all is va- 
 nity. This wife King trauelled 
 all the world ouer, and the fur- 
 ther he went the more vanity 
 he did fee, and the neerer he 
 looked, the greater it feemed, 
 till at lafl he could fee nothing 
 but vanity. Wouldft thou know 
 what is to be feene, or heard, or 
 had in this vaft Vniuerfe ? Vani- 
 ty faith Salomon, yea vanity of 
 vanities', and what elfe ? Vani- 
 ty of vanities. And what elfe ? 
 
 All 
 
 116
 
 Earths Vanity. 
 
 97 
 
 All is vanity. Nothing beneath 
 the Moone that hath not a tinc- 
 ture of vanity. Nay, the Moone 
 it felf, the Sunne, all the Planets, 
 all the Starres, the whole body 
 of the Heauens, is become fub- 
 ie6l to Vanitie. The creature is 
 fubie6l vnto Vanity, faith the 
 Apoflle, Ro?n. 8. 20. that is, the 
 whole frame of the world, con- 
 fifting of the coeleftiall and ele- 
 mentary region, the vifible hea- 
 uens with all their goodly fur- 
 niture of Starres and of coelefti- 
 all bodies, and the earth with 
 her ornaments, and the other 
 elements. The heauens JJiall pe- 
 rijh, and they Jliall waxe old as 
 doth a garment, and the LordJJiall 
 change thetn as a vesture, and they 
 JJiall be changed. As a garment 
 
 F the 
 
 pfai. 102. 
 26. 
 
 117
 
 98 Em^ths Vanity. 
 
 the older it waxeth, the leffe 
 comely it is, the leffe able to 
 warme him that weares it: fo 
 the materiall heauens by conti- 
 nuance of yeares decreafe in 
 beauty and vertue. The neerer 
 the Sunne drawes to the end of 
 his daily courfe, the leffe is his 
 ftrength; in the euening we 
 feele the Sunne to decay in his 
 heat, and he waxeth alway the 
 weaker. Now if thofe fuperi- 
 our bodies, then much more 
 things inferiour and fublunary, 
 are included within the com- 
 paffe of vanity. 
 
 But it was my purpofe, 
 when I firft fet vpon this fubie6l, 
 fo ample and large, to be fo 
 much the more lliort: euery 
 vnderftanding can of it felfe 
 
 difcourfe, 
 
 iiS
 
 Earths Vanity. 
 
 99 
 
 difcdurfe, where fuch plenty of 
 matter is offered. I haue there- 
 fore (^according- to the modell 
 of that gift which God hath 
 giuen me) contriued a great pi- 
 6lure in a Httle ring, fet forth the 
 great vanity of this world in a 
 little Map. 
 
 Let vs now learne the leffon 
 of Saint lohn, the beloued Dif- 
 ciple of Chrift, who wrote fo 
 much of loue, doth yet dehort 
 vs from louing the world, i loh. 
 2. 15. Loue not the world, neither 
 the things that are in the ivorld 
 Why not the world? for three 
 reafons : \. If any man loue the 
 world, the loue of the father is not 
 in him. 2. All that is in the worlds 
 the lufi of the flefJi, the lufl of the 
 eyes, and the pride of life, is not 
 
 F 2 of 
 
 119
 
 lOO Earths Vanity. 
 
 of the father, but is of the world. 
 3. The World pa (feth away, and 
 the hi/i thereof: that is, it is vaine 
 and vanifliing, yea in the ab- 
 ftra6l Vanity. For thefe reafons 
 we muft not fuffer our hearts to 
 cleaue to the beft things in the 
 world, as if happineffe were to 
 be found in them. Follow the 
 counfell of the holy Ghofl, 
 I Cor. 7.31. Vfe this world as 
 though thou vfed it not; for the 
 fafhion of this world goeth a- 
 way. Vfe the things of this 
 world as helpes to thee in thy 
 trauell to heauen-ward, but let 
 them not fteale away thy heart 
 from better things, from God, 
 and Chrift, and heauen, and 
 peace of confcience, and ioy in 
 the holy Ghoft: thefe muft de- 
 light 
 
 120
 
 Earths Vajiity. 
 
 lOI 
 
 Ifo-ht the heart of a Chriftian, 
 who was redeemed, not with cor- 
 riiptible things, as Jihier and gold, 
 but with the precious bloud oi le- 
 fus Chrift, in comparifon of 
 whom all the thincrs of the 
 
 O 
 
 world muft feenie loffe and 
 droffe, and dung, and whatfoe- 
 uer is moft defpitable in the 
 eyes of man. If ricJics increa/e, 
 fet not thy heai't vpon the?}t: no 
 treafure, no pleafure, no honor, 
 nor gold, nor plate, nor iewels, 
 nor houfe, nor land, nor appa- 
 rell, nor friends, muft fteale a- 
 way thy heart. We muft be 
 affe6l€d to thefe things, as The- 
 odoricke the grood Kinof of A- 
 qititaine was with his play;* /;/ 
 good cajis he zvasfilent, in ill mer- 
 ry, in neither angry, in both a 
 F 3 Philofopher^ 
 
 I Pet. 1. 
 
 ig. 
 
 Pf. 62. 10. 
 
 In boJiis 
 iactibiis 
 facet, in 
 ma I is ri- 
 det, in v- 
 tri/ijuc 
 Philo/c- 
 phatur. 
 
 121
 
 I02 Earths Vanity. 
 
 Philofophcr, or a v/ife man. We 
 mufi: not make thefe a riiiall vn- 
 to God, we muft not leane vpon 
 thefe by our confidence: for 
 they are a reed that fhall quick- 
 ly breake, and the fhiuers will 
 run into our hand. 
 
 Death is the moft terrible of 
 all things that are terrible, faid 
 the Philofopher Aristotle: it is 
 terrible both to man and beaft, 
 but moft terrible to a wicked 
 man that is worfe then a beaft, 
 when he remembers his finfull 
 life paft, the complexion of his 
 flefh, the paleneffe of his face, 
 the diffolution of his members, 
 the rottenneffe of his bones, the 
 obfcureneffe of his graue, the 
 folitarineffe of his fepulcher, the 
 gnawing of wormes, and the 
 
 like 
 
 122
 
 Ea7dhs Vanity. 103 
 
 like. But alas (albeit thefe are 
 terrible, yet) thefe are nothing 
 without the confideration of 
 fin, which is the iling of death, 
 the ftrength, and vi(5lory of the 
 graue. Thinke vpon thy finnes, 
 whereof thou art guilty, and for 
 which thou muft dye, as the 
 condemned malefa6lor that af- 
 ter fentence pronounced, is hur- 
 ried to the fatall place of execu- 
 tion, to fuffer deferuecl punifh- 
 ment. Remember, yea againe 
 and againe. I fa)-, remember, 
 how miferably, how violently, 
 how fodainly, others haue fuf- 
 fered death, that were guilty of 
 thofe fins which are more pre- 
 dominant in thee then they 
 were in them. Art thou a thiefe ? 
 which thou maifi: be, thoug^h 
 F 4 thou 
 
 12:
 
 104 
 
 Earths Vanity. 
 
 Sam. 
 
 Num. : 
 8. 
 
 thou wert neuer attached for 
 theft by the lawes of men; for 
 couetoiifneffe is a Pick-purfe 
 before God: read and remem- 
 ber how Achan dyed, IqfJi. 7. Art 
 thou a whoremafter? which 
 thou maill be as well in thy 
 minde as in thy body: then 
 read and remember how Hophni 
 and Phineas dyed, how Zimri 
 and Cosbi were flain in the very 
 a6l of their vncleanneffe. And 
 lezabel an impudent ftrumpet 
 dyed a fodaine and fhamefull 
 death. Art thou a blafphemous 
 fwearer that doft rend & grinde 
 the facred name of God be- 
 tweene thy teeth ? Remember 
 him vnder the Law that was 
 floned to death for his blafphe- 
 my. Art thou an Idolatrous 
 
 impe 
 
 124
 
 Earths Vanity. 105 
 
 impe of the Popifh Church, that 
 doft leaue our Lord to worfhip 
 our Lady, and giue that honour 
 to Saints, nay, to ftockes and 
 ftones, which is proper to God 
 alone? call to minde how Sen- 
 nacharib was flaine in the midft 
 of his Idolatry. Art thou an 
 intemperate drunkard, that doft 
 facrifice thy time and ftate, nay, 
 foule and body vnto Bacchus, 
 rifnig early to drinke ftrong 
 drinke, and fitting vp late till 
 Wine inflame thee? thinke 
 vpon BelJJiazzar that was flaine 
 in the midft of his cups, whilft 
 he was drinking in that Wine, 
 which the fwords of his inful- 
 ting enemies drew out of him 
 together with his lateft blood. 
 Art thou a couetous Vfurer, 
 
 F 5 that 
 
 U:i7.vU. 
 
 Dan. 5. 
 vlt. 
 
 125
 
 io6 Earths Vanity. 
 
 Luk. 12. 
 
 that doft let out thy mon)^ to 
 men, thy time to Mamon, and 
 thy foule to Satan, that like a 
 common Hackney jade wilt not 
 beare thy debtors one houre 
 paft thy day? or art thou a gri- 
 ping oppreffor, that doft racke 
 thy poore tenants, and exa6l 
 vpon xhy neighbour, to gaine a 
 little tranfitory trafli? Remem- 
 ber Nabal, and remember that 
 Mifer in the Gofpell, who being 
 afleep in fecurity, and dreaming 
 of enlarged barns and plentifull 
 haruefts, was fodainly bereft 
 of all, and being awaked vpon 
 the hearing of his Soule-knell 
 perceiued himfelf to be for euer 
 wretched. Confider whether 
 thefe and the like fnmers, that 
 haue made their fouls the flaues 
 
 of 
 
 126
 
 Earths Vanity. 
 
 107 
 
 of vanity, haue not in the end 
 made themfelues the flaues of 
 mifery. Haue they profpered, 
 or haue they periflied? if they 
 haue profpered, then follow 
 them; if periflied (as indeede 
 they haue ) then in the feare of 
 God retire out of their paths, 
 left thou be fpeedily cut off, 
 hauing no information of the 
 danger, till thy owne eyes ama- 
 zed with the fodainnes behold 
 it in the fhape of ineuitable 
 damnation. Be thou warned 
 by their examples; for God 
 hath puniflied fmne in them, to 
 preuent fmne in thee: Vt ex- 
 enipla fint ofuniuin, tormenta 
 paticorum; that the torments of 
 fome few may be terrours vnto 
 all: like as thunderbolts fall 
 
 (Pan- 
 
 Cyprian 
 fcr. s- dc 
 Lap/. 
 
 127
 
 io8 Earths Vanity 
 
 (Paucoruni periculo,fed oinnmm 
 metti) to the hurt but of few, 
 though not without the horror 
 of all. That fhip which fees 
 another fhip finke before her, 
 lookes about her, puis downe 
 her faile, turneth her courfe, 
 and efcapes the fands, which 
 elfe would fwallow her vp as 
 they done the other. When 
 the earth fwallowed vp Corah 
 and his confederates, all Ifrael 
 that were round about them, 
 fled at the cry of them, for they 
 faid, Lest the earth fwaliow vs 
 vp al/o, Num. i6. 34. The Bird 
 will not light on the lime-bufh, 
 nor into the net, if flie fee ano- 
 ther infnared before her; the 
 Horfe will not follow another, 
 whom he fees to fticke fafl in 
 
 the 
 
 128
 
 Earths Vanity. 
 
 109 
 
 the mire: oh be not leffe wife 
 then bird or beaft, nor more 
 brutifh then Horfe and Mule 
 that hath no vnderftanding. If 
 thou feeft another fall into the 
 fire, thou wilt not willingly fol- 
 low him; then follow not finners 
 to the fire of hell, left thou be 
 conftrained at laft, when it fliall 
 be too late, to bewaile thy fol- 
 ly: to cry out with thofe that 
 haue mifpent their time in va- 
 nity, Oh that now I might dye 
 the death of the righteous ! oh 
 that I might not dye at all! oh 
 that I might feele in my confci- 
 ence the leaft hope of pardon, 
 which is as vnpoffible as to vn- 
 lade all the water in the vaft 
 Ocean with a fpoone! Oh that 
 God would giue mee the leaft 
 
 dram 
 
 TllU3^><2«- 
 
 cis Spiem 
 cried out, 
 after he 
 had renou- 
 ced tlie 
 profefsion 
 o true 
 pietie, for 
 the poffef- 
 fion of 
 earths va- 
 nity. 
 
 129
 
 no Earths Vanity. 
 
 Reu. 22. 
 
 dram of grace, which is as im- 
 poffible as for the leaft graine of 
 Muftardfeed to fill the whole 
 earth ! preuent this betimes, 
 which thou maift doe, by aban- 
 doning the vanity of the world; 
 and fo Hue, that wherefoeuer or 
 howfoeuer thou dyeft, whether 
 abroad or at home, by day or 
 by night, fleeping or waking, 
 whether a fodain death or a deli- 
 berate death, thou mail! willing- 
 ly commend thy fpirit vnto the 
 hands of God as vnto the hands 
 of a faithfull creator; and maift 
 fay with the Bride, Co7ne Lord 
 lefii, euenfo, come Lord le/u, cofne 
 quickly: my heart is prepared 
 to enter into thy reft, receiue 
 me into the armes of thy mer- 
 cy, entertaine mee into thy 
 
 owne 
 
 130
 
 Earths Vanity. 
 
 I II 
 
 owne kingdomc, that leaning 
 the vanity of this world, I may 
 with thy glorified Angels and 
 bleffed Saints, enioy that e- 
 uerlafting felicity of a better 
 world, which neuer fhall haue 
 an end. 
 
 Adew therefore vain world, 
 with all worldly delights what- 
 foeuer.- and now folitary foule 
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 ter things. And to proue the 
 world vaine, and confequently 
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 fhapes, read thefe Verfes, and in 
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 folded vp. Herein, as in a mir- 
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 Earths Vanity. 113 
 
 I. 
 
 I ^Hoitgk long it werejince Adam ivas^ 
 
 -*- Yet/eemes lie here to be; 
 A hleffed creature once he zvas, 
 JVoiu naked as you fee: 
 Whofe wife was caufe of all my care, 
 To fay I may be bold: 
 Ttirne backethe leaties, ajid then you may 
 My picture there behold. 
 
 II. 
 
 To thinke vpon the workes of God, 
 All worldly men may wonder: 
 But thinking 071 thy finnes O man, 
 Thy heart may btirfi afmder: 
 The fijiner fits andfweetlyfuigs, 
 Andfo his heart beguiles, 
 
 Till
 
 114 Earths Vanity. 
 
 Till I come zvith my bitter Jliiigs, 
 And turne to grief e his f7niles. 
 
 III. 
 
 Mttfe not to gaze vpoii my //tape, 
 Whofe nakednej/e yoti fee ; 
 By flatter ing and deceit full words, 
 The Diuell deceiued me: 
 Let me exainple be to all, 
 That once f^om God doe range: 
 Turne ^ backe the leaties, and then behold 
 Another fight asflrange. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Had Adam a7id Eue 7ietier beene 
 
 As there y 021 f aw their f tape, 
 
 I neuer had deceiued them, 
 
 Nor they ere made debate: 
 
 BtU turne, behold whe^'e both doefland 
 
 And lay the fault on me: 
 
 Turne backe the vpper and nether crests, 
 
 There each of them yoti fee. 
 
 Hei'c 
 
 134
 
 Earths Vanity. 115 
 
 I. III. 
 
 Here ive doejiand in perfeSlJlate, 
 
 All formed as we were ; 
 
 BtU what the Serpent did by hate, 
 
 Shall fodainely appeare : 
 
 Then here behold how both doejiand, 
 
 And where the fault did lye : 
 
 Tli almighty pozver didfo command, 
 
 That once we all must dye. 
 
 II. IV. 
 
 See what comes of zvicked deed, 
 As all men well doe know ; 
 And for the fame God hath decreed 
 That wefiould litie iit woe : 
 The difi it was my daily food, 
 Vnto it we iniifi ttirne ; 
 And darknej/e is my chief e abode, 
 Inforrowfo we mourne. 
 
 Of
 
 iir^ 
 
 ii6 
 
 Ifels Torments. 
 
 Of the punifliments 
 
 which the Lord threat- 
 
 iieth vnto fiich as Hue 
 
 ajinfull life. 
 
 Ne of the principall 
 meanes that our Lord 
 hath vfed oftentimes 
 to bridle the hearts of men, and 
 to draw them vnto the obedi- 
 ence of his commandements, 
 hath beene, to fet before their 
 eyes the horrible plagues and 
 punifhments that are prepared 
 
 for 
 
 \X()
 
 Hels Torments. 1 1 7 
 
 for fuch perfons as be rebels 
 and tranfgreffours of his Law. 
 For although the hope of the 
 rewards that are promifed vnto 
 the good in the life to come, 
 may moue vs very much here- 
 unto : yet are we commonly 
 more moued with things that 
 be irkefome vnto vs, than with 
 fuch as be pleafant; euen as we 
 fee by daily experience, that we 
 are vexed more with an iniury 
 done vnto vs, than delighted 
 with any honour; and we are 
 more troubled with fickneffe, 
 than comforted with health: 
 and fo by the difcommodity of 
 fickneffe, we come to vnderftand 
 the commodity of health, as 
 by a thing fo much the bet- 
 ter perceiued, by how much 
 
 more 
 
 137
 
 1 1 8 Hels Torments. 
 
 more it is fenfibly felt. Now for 
 this caufe did our Lord in times 
 paft vfe this meane more than 
 any other, as it appeareth moft 
 clearely by the writings of the 
 Prophets, which are euery 
 where full of dreadfull fayings 
 and threatnings, wherewith 
 our Lord pretendeth to put a 
 terrour into the hearts of men, 
 and fo to bridle and fubdue 
 them vnder the obedience of his 
 Law. And for this end he com- 
 manded the Prophet leremie, 
 That he fhould take a white 
 booke, and write in the fame all 
 the threatnings and calamities 
 which hee had reuealed vnto 
 him, euen from the firft day he 
 began to talke with him, vntill 
 that prefent houre, and that he 
 
 fhould 
 
 138
 
 Hels Torments. 119 
 
 fhould read the fame in the pre- 
 fence of all the people, to fee if 
 peraduenture they would be 
 moued therewith vnto repen- 
 tance, and to change their for- 
 mer life, to the end, that he 
 might alfo change the determi- 
 nation of his wrath, which he 
 had purpofed to execute vpon 
 them. And the holy Scripture 
 faith, That when the Prophet 
 had done according as he was 
 commanded by almighty God, 
 and had read all thofe threat- 
 nings in the prefence of the 
 people, and of the Rulers; there 
 arofe fuch a feare and terrour 
 amongft them, that they were 
 all aftoniflied, and as it were 
 beftraughted of their wits, look- 
 ing one in anothers face, for the 
 
 exceeding 
 
 ^39
 
 I20 
 
 Hels Torments. 
 
 exceeding great fear which they 
 had conceiued of thofe words. 
 This was one of the principall 
 means which almighty God v- 
 fed with men in the time of the 
 Law written, and fo he did alfo 
 in the time of the Law of grace : 
 in which, the holy Apoftle 
 faith. That as there is reiiealed a 
 iuflice, whereby God maketh 
 men iuft, fo is there alfo reuea- 
 led an indignation and wrath, 
 whereby he pimifheth the vn- 
 iufl: for which caufe, S. lohn 
 Baptifi (the glorious forerunner 
 of our Sauiour ChriftJ was fent 
 with this commiffion and em- 
 baffage, to preach vnto the 
 world, That the axe was now 
 put to the root of the tree, and that 
 etiery tree that brought not forth 
 
 good 
 
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 Hels Torments. 121 
 
 good fruit, Jhotdd be nU downe 
 and cast into the fire. Hee faid 
 moreouer, That there was ano- 
 ther come into the zvorld, more 
 7nighty than hee, that carried in 
 his hand a fanne, to winnoiv and 
 cleanfe therewith his floore, a7id 
 that he njozdd put vp the come 
 into his garner, but the chaffe he 
 will burne in a fire thatfiwuld ne- 
 tier be qttenched. This was the 
 preaching and embaffage which 
 the holy fore-runner of our 
 Sauiour lefus Chrift brought 
 into the world. And fo great 
 was the thunder of thefe words, 
 and the terrour which entered 
 into mens hearts, fo dreadfull, 
 that there ran vnto him of all 
 eftates and conditions of men, 
 euen of the very Pharifees and 
 G Publicans, 
 
 141
 
 122 Hels Torments. 
 
 Publicans, yea, and Souldiours 
 alfo (which of all others are 
 wont to be moft diffolute, and 
 to haue the leaft care of their 
 confciences) and each of them 
 demandecl for himfelfe particu- 
 larly of that holy man, what he 
 fhould doe to attaine vnto Val- 
 uation, and to efcape thofe ter- 
 rible threatninas which he had 
 denounced vnto them, fo great 
 was the feare they had concei- 
 ued of them. 
 
 And this is that (deare Chri- 
 ftian brother) which I doe at 
 this prefent (in the behalfe of 
 Almighty God) deliuer vnto 
 thee, although not with fuch 
 feruency of fpirit and like holi- 
 neffe of life, yet that which im- 
 porteth more in this cafe, with 
 
 the 
 
 142
 
 Hels Tor^ncnts. 123 
 
 the fame truth and certainty; 
 for fo much as the faith and 
 Gofpell which Saint loJiu Bap- 
 tist then preached, is euen the 
 fame now taught. 
 
 Now, if thou be defirous to 
 vnderftand in few words, how 
 great the punifliment is, that al- 
 mighty God hath threatned in 
 his holy Scriptures to the wick- 
 ed, that which may nioft briefly 
 and moft to the purpofe be fpo- 
 ken in this matter, is this : That 
 like as the reward of the good is 
 an vniuerfall good thing, euen 
 fo the punifliment of the wick- 
 ed is an vniuerfall euill, which 
 comprehendeth in it al the euils 
 that are. For the better vnder- 
 ftanding whereof, it is to be no- 
 ted, That all the euils of this life 
 
 G 2 are 
 
 H3
 
 124 
 
 Heh Torments. 
 
 are particular eiiils, and there- 
 fore doe not torment all our 
 fences generally, but onely one, 
 or fome of them. As taking an 
 example of the difeafes of our 
 body; we fee, that one hath a 
 difeafe in his eyes, another in 
 his eares: one is ficke in the 
 heart, another in the ftomacke, 
 fome other in his head. And fo 
 diuers men are difeafed in diuers 
 parts of the body, howbeit, in 
 fuch wife, that none of all thefe 
 difeafes be generally through- 
 out all the members of the bo- 
 dy, but particular to fome one 
 of them. And yet for all this, 
 we fee what griefe onely one of 
 thefe difeafes may put vs vnto, 
 and how painefull a night the 
 ficke man hath in any one of 
 
 thefe 
 
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 Hels Torments. 125 
 
 thefe infirmities, yea, although 
 it be nothino- elfe but a little ach 
 in one tooth. Now let vs put 
 the cafe, that there were fome 
 one man ficke of fuch an vni- 
 uerfall difeafe, that he had no 
 part of his body, neither any 
 one joynt or fence free from his 
 proper paine, but that at one 
 time and inftant hee fuffered 
 moft exceeding fharpe torment 
 in his head, in his eyes, and 
 eares, in his teeth, and ftomack, 
 in his liuer and heart: and to be 
 fliort, in all the reft of his mem- 
 bers and joints of his body, and 
 that he lay after this fort ftret- 
 ching himfelfe in his bed, being 
 pained with thefe greefes and 
 torments, euery member of his 
 body hauing his particular tor- 
 G 3 ment 
 
 145
 
 126 Hels Torments. 
 
 meat and griefe: Hee (I fay) 
 that fhould lye thus pained and 
 affli6led, how great torment 
 and griefe of minde and body 
 (thinke ye) lliould he fuftaine? 
 Oh, what thing could any man 
 imagine more miferable, and 
 more worthy of compaffion? 
 Surely, if thou fhouldeft fee but 
 a dogge to be fo tormented and 
 grieued in the ftreet, his very 
 paines would moue thy heart 
 to take pitty vpon him. Now 
 this is that (my deare Chriftian 
 brother, if any comparifon may 
 be made betweene them) v/hich 
 is fuffered in that moft curfed 
 and horrible place of hell, and 
 not onely during for the fpace 
 of one night, but euerlaftingly, 
 for euer and euer. For like as 
 
 the 
 
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 Hels Torments. 127 
 
 the wicked men haue offended 
 Almighty God with all their 
 members and fences, and haue 
 made armour of them all to 
 ferue fmne, euen fo will he or- 
 daine, that they ihall be there 
 tormented euery one of them 
 with his proper torment. 
 
 There fhall the wanton vn- 
 chafhe eyes be tormented with 
 the terrible fight of Diuels: the 
 eares with the confufion of fuch 
 horrible cries and lamentations 
 which fhall there be heard: the 
 nofe with the intolerable ftinke 
 of that vgly, filthy, and loath- 
 fome place: the tafte, with a 
 moll rauenous hunger and 
 thirft: the touching, and all the 
 members of the body with ex- 
 treame burning fire. The ima- 
 G 4 ginations 
 
 147
 
 126 Hels Torments. 
 
 gination fhall be tormented by 
 the conceiuing of griefes pre- 
 fent: the memory, by calling to 
 minde the pleafures paft: the 
 vnderftanding, by confidering 
 what benefits are lofh, and what 
 endleffe miferies are to come. 
 
 This multitude of punifh 
 ments the holy Scripture figni- 
 fieth vnto vs, when it faith, 
 Mat. 15. Pfal. 10. That in hell 
 there JJiall be htmger, thh^, zvee- 
 ping, ivailing, gnaJJiing of teeth, 
 /words dotible edged, fpir its crea 
 ted for renengement, fe7'pents, 
 zvormes, fcorpions, hammers, 
 wormeivood, zvater of gall, the Jpi- 
 7dt of tempefi, and other things 
 of like fort. Whereby are fig- 
 nified vnto vs (as in a figure) the 
 multitude and dreadfull terrour 
 
 of 
 
 148
 
 Hels Torments. 
 
 [27 
 
 of the moft horrible torments 
 and paines that be in that curfed 
 place. There fhall be likewife 
 darkneffe inward and outward, 
 both of body and foule, farre 
 more obfcure than the darke- 
 neffe of ^gypt, which was to 
 be felt eiien with hands, Exod. 
 20. There fhall be fire alfo, not 
 as this fire here, that tormenteth 
 a little, and fhortly endeth, but 
 fuch a fire as that place requi- 
 reth, which tormenteth excee- 
 dingly, and fhall neuer make an 
 end of that tormenting. This 
 being true, what greater won- 
 der can there be, than that they 
 which beleeue and confeffe this 
 for truth, (hould Hue with fuch 
 moft ftrange negligence and 
 carelefneffe as they doe? What 
 G 5 trauell 
 
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 130 Hels Torments. 
 
 trauell and paines would not a 
 man willingly take to efcape 
 euen one onely day, yea, one 
 houre, the very leall of thefe 
 torments? and wherefore doe 
 they not then, to efcape the 
 euerlaflino-neffe of fo orgeat 
 paines and horrible torments, 
 endure fo little a trauell, as to 
 follow the exercife of vertue. 
 Surely, the confideration of this 
 matter were able to make any 
 fmfull foule to feare and trem- 
 ble, in cafe it were deepely re- 
 garded. 
 
 And if amongft fo great num- 
 ber of paines^ there were any 
 manner hope of end or releafe, 
 it would be fome kinde of com- 
 fort : but alas it is not fo, for there 
 the gates are faft fliut vp from 
 
 all 
 
 150
 
 Hels Torments. 131 
 
 all expe6lation of any manner 
 of eafe or hope. In all kinde of 
 paines and calamities that be in 
 this world, there is alwayes 
 fome gap lying open, whereby 
 the patient may receiue fome 
 kind of comfort: fometimes 
 reafon, fometimes the weather, 
 fometimes his friends, fome- 
 times the hearing that others 
 are troubled with the very fame 
 difeafe, and fometimes (at the 
 leaft) the hope of an end may 
 cheare him : onely in thefe moft 
 horrible paines and miferies 
 that be in hell, all the wayes are 
 fliut vp in fuch fort, and all the 
 hauens of comfort fo embarred, 
 that the miferable fniner cannot 
 hope for remedy on any fide, 
 neither of heauen, nor of earth, 
 
 neither 
 
 151
 
 I30 
 
 Hels Torments. 
 
 neither of the time paft, or pre- 
 fent, or of the time to come, or 
 of any other meanes. The dam- 
 ned foules thinke, that all men 
 are fhooting darts at them, and 
 that all creatures haue confpired 
 againfh them, & that euen they 
 themfelues are cruell againft 
 themfelues. This is that diftreffe 
 whereof the fmners doe lament 
 by the Prophet, faying: The 
 forrowes of hell haue compaJJ'edine 
 rotmd about, and the f)iares of 
 death haiie befieged me : For on 
 which fide foeuer they looke or 
 turne their eyes, they doe con- 
 tinually behold occafions of 
 forrow and griefe, and none at 
 all of any eafe or comfort. The 
 wife Virgins (faith the Euange- 
 lift) that stood ready prepared at 
 
 the 
 
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 Hels Torments. 131 
 
 the gate of tJie Bi'idegrome, entred 
 in, and the gate was fo7'thwith 
 locked fast. O locking euerla- 
 fting, O enclofure immortal, O 
 gate of all goodneffe, which fhal 
 neuer any more be opened a- 
 o'aine. As if he had faid more 
 
 o 
 
 plainly, the gate of pardon, of 
 mercy, of comfort, of grace, of 
 interceffion, of hope, and of all 
 other goodneffe, is fhut vp for 
 euer and euer. Six dayes and 
 no more was Manna to be ga- 
 thered, but the feuenth day, 
 which was the Sabbath day 
 was there none to be found: 
 and therefore fliall he fafl for 
 euer, that hath not in due time 
 made his prouifion aforehand. 
 The fluggard (faith the wife 
 man) will not till his ground for 
 
 feare 
 
 15;
 
 134 
 
 Hels Torments. 
 
 feare of cold, and therefore fhall 
 he beg his bread in fummer, and 
 no man fhall giue him to eat. 
 And in another place he faith : 
 He 'that gatkereth in funimer, is 
 a ivife fonne, btit he that giueth 
 him/elfe tojleeping at that fea/on, 
 is the fonne of confiifion. For what 
 confufion can be greater then 
 that which that miferable coue- 
 tous rich man fuffereth, who 
 with a few crums of bread that 
 fell from his table, might haue 
 purchafed to himfelfe abun- 
 dance of euerlafting felicitie, 
 and glory in the kingdome of 
 heauen ? But becaufe he would 
 not giue fo fmall a thing, he 
 came to fuch an extreame ne- 
 ceffity that he begged (^yea, and 
 fhall for euer beg in vaine) one- 
 
 ly 
 
 154
 
 Hels Tormcnls. 135 
 
 ly one drop of water, and fhall 
 neuer obtalne it. Who is not 
 rpoued with that requeft of that 
 vnfortunate damned perfon, 
 who cried, O father Abraham 
 haue compajjion on me, mid fend 
 downe Lazarus vnto me, that he 
 may dip the tip of his finger in zva- 
 ter, and touch- my tongue, for 
 thefe horrible flames doe torment 
 me exceediiigly. What fmaller 
 requeft could there be defired 
 than this? He durft not requeft 
 fo much as one cup of water, 
 neither that Lazarus fliould put 
 his whole hand into the water, 
 nor yet (^ which is more to be 
 wondered at^ did he requeft fo 
 much as the whole finoer, but 
 onely the tip of it, that it might 
 but touch his tongue; and yet 
 
 euen 
 
 iSS
 
 134 Hels Torments. 
 
 euen this alone would not be 
 granted vnto him. Whereby 
 thou maiefl: perceiue, how fall 
 the gate of all confolation is 
 fhut vp, and how vniuerfall 
 that interdi6t and excommuni- 
 cation is, that is there laid vpon 
 the damned; fith this rich Glut- 
 ton could not obtaine fo much 
 as this fmall requeft. So that 
 wherefoeuer the damned per- 
 fons doe turne their eyes, and 
 on which fide foeuer they 
 ftretch their hands, they fhall 
 not finde any manner of com- 
 fort, be it neuer fo fmall. And 
 as he that is in the Sea choaked, 
 and almoft drowned vnder the 
 water, not finding any ftay 
 whereupon to fet his foot, 
 ftretcheth forth his hands often- 
 times 
 
 156
 
 Hels Torments. 
 
 135 
 
 times on euery fide in vain (^be- 
 caufe all that he grafpeth after, 
 is thin and liquid water, which 
 deceiues him^ eiien fo fliall it 
 fare with the damned perfons, 
 when they fhall be drowned in 
 that deepe Sea of fo many mi- 
 feries, where they fhall ftriue 
 and ftruggle alwaies with death, 
 without finding any fuccour or 
 place of ftay, whereupon they 
 may reft themfelues. Now this 
 is one of the greateft paines 
 wherewith they be tormented 
 in that curfed place : for if thefe 
 torments fhould haue their con- 
 tinuance limited but for a cer- 
 taine time, though it were for 
 a thoufand, yea, a hundred thou- 
 fand millions of yeares, yet euen 
 this would be fome little com- 
 fort 
 
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 138 
 
 Hels Torments. 
 
 fort vnto them, for nothing is 
 perfe6lly great, in cafe it haue 
 an end: But alas, they haue not 
 fo much as this poore and mife- 
 rable comfort: but contrariwife, 
 their paines are equall in conti- 
 nuance with the eternity of al- 
 mighty God, and the lafting of 
 their mifery with the eternity 
 of Gods glory. As long as al- 
 mighty God fliall Hue, fo long 
 fhall they dye : and when al- 
 mighty God fhall ceafe to be 
 God, then fliall they alfo ceafe 
 to be as they are. O deadly life, 
 O immortall death ! I know not 
 whether I may truely tearme 
 thee, either life or death: for if 
 thou be life, why doft thou kil? 
 And if thou be death, why doefl 
 thou endure .'* Wherefore 
 
 I 
 
 as8
 
 Hels Torments. 
 
 139 
 
 I will call thee neither the one, 
 nor the other, for fo much as in 
 both of them there is contained 
 fomethino; that is oood: as in 
 life there is reft, and in death 
 there is an end (which is a great 
 comfort to the affli6led) but 
 thou haft neither reft nor end. 
 What art thou then? Marry, 
 thou art the worft of life, and 
 the worft of death; for of death 
 thou haft the torment, without 
 any end, and of life thou haft 
 the continuance without any 
 reft. O bitter compofition, O 
 vnfauory purgation of our Lords 
 cup! of the which, all the fm- 
 ners of the earth fhall drinke 
 their part. 
 
 Now in this continuance in 
 this eternity, I would wifti that 
 
 thou 
 
 159
 
 138 Hels Torments. 
 
 thou (my deare Chriftian bro- 
 ther) wouldft fixe the eyes of 
 thy confideration a little while: 
 and that as the cleane beaft 
 cheweth the cud, euen fo thou 
 wouldeft weigh this point 
 within thy felfe with great deli- 
 beration. And to the intent 
 thou maieft doe it the better, 
 confider a little the paines that 
 a ficke man abideth in one euill 
 night, efpecially if he be vexed 
 with any vehement griefe, or 
 fharpe difeafe. Marke how oft 
 he tumbleth and toffeth in his 
 bed, what difquietneffe he hath, 
 how long & tedious one night 
 feemeth vnto him, how duely 
 he counteth all the houres of 
 the clocke, and how long he 
 deemeth each houre of them to 
 
 be, 
 
 160
 
 Hels Torments. 
 
 139 
 
 be, how he paffeth the time in 
 wifhing for the dawning of the 
 day; which notwithflanding, is 
 like to helpe him Httle towards 
 the curing of his difeafe. If this 
 then be accounted fo great a 
 torment, what torment fhall 
 that be (thinke you) in that e- 
 uerlafting night in hell, which 
 hath no morning, nor fo much 
 as any hope of any dawning of 
 the day: O darkneffe moft ob- 
 fcure! O night euerlafting! O 
 night accurfed euen by the 
 mouth of almighty God and 
 all his Saints! That one fhall 
 wifh for light, and fhall neuer 
 fee it, neither fhall the bright- 
 neffe of the morning arife any 
 more. Confider then what a 
 kinde of torment fhall that be, 
 
 to 
 
 161
 
 142 Hels Torments. 
 
 to Hue euerlaftingly in fuch a 
 night as this is, lying not in a 
 foft bed (as the ficke man doth) 
 but in a hot burning furnace, fo- 
 ming out fuch terrible raging 
 flames. What fhoulders fhall be 
 able to abide thofe horrible 
 heats. If it feeme to vs as a thing 
 intollerable to haue onely fome 
 part of our feet ftanding vpon a 
 pan of burning coales, for the 
 fpace of repeating the Lords 
 prayer, What fliall it be (thinke 
 you) to ftand body and foule 
 burning in the midft of thofe e- 
 uerlaftino- hot raofincr fires in 
 hell, in comparifon of which, 
 the fires of this world are but 
 painted fires. Is there any wit 
 or iudgement in this world? 
 Haue men their right fences .f* 
 
 doe 
 
 102
 
 Hels Torments. 143 
 
 doe they vnderftand what thefe 
 words import? or are they per- 
 aduentiire perfwaded, that thefe 
 are onely the fables of Poets? 
 or doe they thinke, that this ap- 
 pertaineth not to them, or elfe 
 that it was onely ment for o- 
 thers? None of all this can 
 they fay, for fo much as our 
 faith affureth vs moft certainly 
 herein. And our Sauiour Chrift 
 himfelfe, who is euerlafting 
 truth, crieth out in his Gofpell, 
 faying-, Heauen and earth Jhall 
 faile, but my tvord Jhall not faile. 
 Of this mifery there follow- 
 eth another as great as it, which 
 is, that the paines are alwayes 
 continuing in one like degree, 
 without any manner of inter- 
 miffion, or decreafing. All man- 
 ner 
 
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 142 Hels Torments. 
 
 ner of things that are vnder the 
 cope of heauen, doe moue and 
 turn round about with the fame 
 heauen, and doe neuer ftand ftil 
 at one ftate or being, but are 
 continually either afcending or 
 defcending. The fea and the 
 riuers haue their ebbing and 
 flowing, the times, the ages, and 
 the mutable fortune of men, and 
 of kingdomes, are euermore in 
 continuall motion. There is no 
 feauer fo feruent, that doth not 
 decline, neither griefe fo fharp, 
 but that after it is much aug- 
 mented, it doth forthwith de- 
 creafe. To be fhort, all the tri- 
 bulations and miferies are by 
 little and little worne away 
 with time, and as the common 
 faying is, Nothing is fooner dried 
 
 vp 
 
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 145 
 
 vp than teares. Onely that paine 
 in hell is alwayes greene, onely 
 that feaiier neuer decreafeth, 
 onely that extremity of heat 
 knoweth not what is either eue- 
 ning or morning. In the time 
 of Noahs flood, almighty God 
 rained forty dayes and forty 
 nights, continually without 
 ceafing vpon the earth, and this 
 fufficed to drowne the whole 
 world. But in that place of 
 torment in hell, there fliall raine 
 euerlafling vengeance, and darts 
 of furie vpon that curfed land, 
 without euer ceafmg fo much as 
 one onely minute or moment. 
 Now what torment can be 
 greater and more to be abhor- 
 red, than continually to fuffer 
 after one like manner, without 
 H any 
 
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 146 Hels Torments. 
 
 any kinde of alteration or 
 change? Though a meat be 
 neuer fo deHcate, yet in cafe we 
 feed continually thereupon, it 
 will in very fhort time be very 
 loathfome vnto vs : for no meat 
 can be more precious and deli 
 cate than that Manna was, 
 which almighty God fent down 
 vnto the children of Ifrael in 
 the Defart, and yet becaufe they 
 did eat continually thereof, it 
 made them to loath it, yea, and 
 prouoked them to vomit it vp 
 againe. The way that is all 
 plaine (they fay) wearieth more 
 than an)* other, becaufe alwayes 
 the variety (yea, euen in punifh- 
 ment) is a kinde of comfort. 
 Tell me then, if things that be 
 pleafant and fauory, when they 
 
 be 
 
 n66-
 
 Hels Torments. 147 
 
 be alwayes after one manner, 
 are an occafion of loathfome- 
 neffe and paine: what kinde of 
 loathfomeneffe will that be 
 which fhall be caufed by thofe 
 moft horrible paines and tor- 
 ments in hell, which doe con- 
 tinue euerlaltingly after one 
 like fort? What will the dam- 
 ned and ciirfed creatures think, 
 when they fliall there fee them- 
 felues fo vtterly abhorred and 
 forfaken of almighty God, that 
 he will not fo much as with the 
 remiffion of any one finne, mi- 
 tigate fomwhat their torments. 
 And fo great fhall the fury and 
 rage be which they fhall there 
 conceiue againft him, that they 
 fhall neuer ceafe continually to 
 curfe and blafpheme his holy 
 H 2 name. 
 
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 148 
 
 Hels Torments. 
 
 name. Vnto all thefe paines, 
 there Is alfo added the paine of 
 that euerlafhing confumer, to 
 wit, the worme of co7ifcience, 
 whereof the holy Scripture 
 maketh fo oftentimes mention, 
 faying, Their worme JJiall neiier 
 dye, and their fire fiiall neuer be 
 quenched. This worme is a fu- 
 rious raging defpight and bitter 
 repentance, without any fruit, 
 which the wicked fhall alwayes 
 haue in hell, by calling to their 
 remembrance the opportunity 
 and time they had whiles they 
 were in this world, to efcape 
 thofe moft grieuous and horri- 
 ble torments, and how they 
 would not vfe the benefit there- 
 of. And therefore when the 
 miferable fmner feeth himfelfe 
 
 thus 
 
 168
 
 Hels Torments. 149 
 
 thus to be tormented and vex- 
 ed on euery fide, and doth call 
 to minde how many dayes and 
 yeeres he hath fpent idly in va- 
 nities, paftimes, and pleafures; 
 and how oftentimes he was ad- 
 uertifed of this perill, and how 
 little regard he tooke thereof: 
 What fhall he thinke? What 
 anguifh and forrow fhall there 
 be in his heart? Haft thou not 
 read in the Gofpell, that there 
 fhall be weeping and wailing, and 
 gna/Iiing of teeth? The famine 
 of yEgypt endurd onely feuen 
 yeares, but that in hell fhall en- 
 dure euerlaftingly. In yEgypt 
 they found a remedy, though 
 with great difficulty & charge; 
 but for this, there fhall neuer a- 
 ny remedy be found. Theirs 
 H 3 was 
 
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 150 Hels Torments, 
 
 was redeemed with money and 
 cattell, but this can neuer be re- 
 deemed with any manner of ex- 
 change. This pimifliment can- 
 not be pardoned, this paine 
 cannot be exchanged, this fen- 
 tence cannot be reuoked. Oh, 
 if thou kneweft and wouldeft 
 confider, how euery one con- 
 demned to hell; fliall there re- 
 maine tormenting and renting 
 himfelfe, weeping and wailing, 
 and faying; O miferable and 
 vnfortunate wretch that I am, 
 what times and opportunities 
 haue I fuffered to paffe invaineP 
 A time there was, when with 
 one cup of cold water I might 
 haue purchafed to my felfe a 
 crowne of glory, and when alfo 
 with fuch neceffary workes of 
 
 mercy 
 
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 Hels Torments. 151 
 
 mercy in relieuing the poore, I 
 might haiie gained life euerla- 
 fling. Wherefore did I not 
 looke before me? How was I 
 blinded with things prefent? 
 How did I let paffe the fruitfull 
 yeares of abundance, and did 
 not enrich my felfe? If I had 
 beene brought vp amongfl In- 
 fidels and Pagans, and had be- 
 leeued that there had beene no- 
 thing elfe but onely to be born, 
 and to dye, then might I haue 
 had fome kinde of excufe, and 
 misfht haue faid, I knew not 
 what was commanded or pro- 
 hibited me: but for fo much as 
 I haue liued amongfl: Chriftians, 
 and was my felfe one of them 
 profeffed, and held it for an ar- 
 ticle of my beleefe, that the 
 H 4 houre 
 
 171
 
 152 
 
 Hels Torments. 
 
 houre fhould come when I 
 fhould giue vp an account after 
 what order I had fpent my Hfe: 
 forfomuch alfo as it was daily- 
 cried out vnto me by the conti- 
 nual! preaching and teaching of 
 Gods Embaffadours (whofe 
 aduertifements many follow- 
 ing, made preparation in time, 
 and laboured earneftly for the 
 prouifion of good workes:) 
 forafmuch I fay as I made light 
 of all thefe examples, and per- 
 fwaded my felfe very fondly, 
 that heauen was prepared for 
 me, though I tooke no paines 
 for it at all : what deferue I that 
 haue thus led my life ? O ye in- 
 fernall furies, come and rent me 
 in peeces, aud deuoure thefe my 
 bowels, for fo haue I iuftly de- 
 
 ferued 
 
 172
 
 Hels Torments. 153 
 
 ferued, I haue deferued eternall 
 famifhment, feeing I would not 
 prouide for my felfe while I 
 had time. I deferue not to reap, 
 becaufe I haue not fowne; I am 
 worthy to be deflitute, becaufe 
 I haue not laid vp in ftore; I 
 deferue that my requeft fhould 
 now be denied me, fith when 
 the poore made requeft vnto 
 me, I refufed to releeue them: 
 I haue deferued to figh and la- 
 ment fo long as God fhall be 
 God; I haue deferued, that this 
 worme of confcience fhal gnaw 
 mine entrails for euer and euer, 
 by reprefenting vnto mee the 
 little pleafure that 1 haue en- 
 ioyed, and the great felicitie 
 which I haue loft, and how far 
 greater that was which I might 
 H 5 haue 
 
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 154 Hels Torments. 
 
 haue gained, by forgoing that 
 little which I would not forgoe. 
 This is that immortall worme 
 that fhall neuer dye, but fhal lye 
 there euerlaftingly gnawing at 
 the entrailes of the wicked, 
 which is one of the mofh terri- 
 ble paines that can poffibly be 
 imagined. 
 
 Peraduenture thou art now 
 perfwaded (good Reader) that 
 there can be added no more vn- 
 to this, than hath beene faid. 
 But furely the mighty arme of 
 God wanteth not force to cha- 
 ftice his enemies more & more : 
 for all thefe paines that are hi- 
 therto rehearfed, are fuch as doe 
 appertaine generally to all the 
 damned : but befides thefe ge- 
 neral! paines, there are alfo 
 
 other 
 
 174
 
 Hcls Torments. 155 
 
 other particular paines, which 
 each one of the damned fhall 
 there fiiffer in diuers forts, ac- 
 cording to the qiiaHty of his 
 finne. And fo according to this 
 proportion, the hauty and 
 proud fhall there be abafed and 
 brought low to their great con- 
 fufion. The couetous fhall be 
 driuen to great neceffity: the 
 glutton fliall rage with conti- 
 nuall hunorer and thirfl. The 
 lecherous fhall burne in the ve- 
 ry fame flames which they 
 themfelues haue enkindled. 
 And thofe that haue al their life 
 time hunted after their pleafures 
 and paftimes, fliall Hue there in 
 continuall lamentation and for- 
 row. But becaufe examples are 
 of very great force to moue our 
 
 hearts. 
 
 m 
 
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 156 
 
 Hels Torments. 
 
 hearts^ I will bring onely one 
 for this purpofe, wherby fome- 
 what of this matter may the 
 better be perceiued. It is writ- 
 ten of a certaine holy man, that 
 he faw the paines (in fpirit) of a 
 licentious and worldly man in 
 this fort. Firft he faw how the 
 diuels that were prefent at the 
 houre of his death, when hee 
 yeelded vp his ghoft, fnatched 
 away his foule with great reioy- 
 cing, and made a prefent there- 
 of to the prince of darkeneffe, 
 who was then fitting in a chaire 
 of fire, expe6ling the comming 
 of this prefent. Immediately af- 
 ter that it was prefented before 
 him, he arofe vp out of his feat, 
 and faid vnto the damned foule, 
 that he would giue him the pre- 
 
 heminence 
 
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 Hels Torments. 
 
 157 
 
 heminence of that honourable 
 feat, becaufe he had beene a man 
 of honour, ann was alwayes ve- 
 ry much affe6led to the fame. 
 Incontinently after that he was 
 placed therein, crying and la- 
 menting in that honourable tor- 
 ment, there appeared before 
 him two other moft ougly di- 
 uels, and offered him a cup 
 full of mofl bitter and ftinking 
 liquor, and made him to drinke 
 and caroufe it vp all, perforce; 
 faying. It is meet, fi thence thou 
 haft beene a louer of precious 
 wines and bankets, that thou 
 fhouldeft likewife proue of this 
 our wine, whereof all we doe 
 vfe to drinke in thefe parts. 
 
 Immediately after this there 
 
 came other two, with two fiery 
 
 ;■. um- 
 
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 158 Hels Torments. 
 
 trumpets, and fetting them at 
 his eares, began to blow into 
 them flames of fire, faying, 
 This melody haue we referued 
 for thee, vnderftanding that in 
 the world thou waft very much 
 delighted with minftrelcie and 
 wanton fongs: and fodainly he 
 efpied other diuels, loaden with 
 vipers and ferpents, the which 
 they threw vpon the breaft and 
 bellies of that miferable finner, 
 faying vnto him, that forfomuch 
 as he had beene greatly delight- 
 ed with the wanton embracingfs 
 and lecherous lufls of women, 
 he fliould now follace himfelfe 
 with thefe refrefhings, inftead 
 of thofe licentious delights and 
 pleafures, which he had enioy- 
 ed in the world. After this fort 
 
 (as 
 
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 Hels Torments. 159 
 
 (as the Prophet Efay faith in the 
 47. chapter) when the hnner is 
 punifhed, there is giuen meafure 
 for meafure, to the end, that in 
 fuch a great variety and propor- 
 tion of punifhments, the order 
 and wifedome of Gods iuftice, 
 might the more manifeftly ap- 
 peare. 
 
 This vifion hath ahiiighty 
 God fhewed in fpirit to this ho- 
 ly man for aduertifement and 
 infl;ru6lion, not that in hel thefe 
 things are altogether fo mate- 
 rially done, but that by them we 
 might vnderftand in fome man- 
 ner the varietie and multitude 
 of the paines which be there 
 appointed for the damned. 
 Whereof, I know not how 
 fome of the Pagans haue had a 
 
 certaine 
 
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 i6o 
 
 Hels Torments. 
 
 certaine knowledge: for a Poet 
 fpeaking of this multitude of 
 paines, affirmed, That although 
 he had a hundred mouthes, and 
 as many tongues, with a voyce 
 as ftrong as yron, yet were they 
 not able onely to expreffe the 
 names of them. A Poet he was 
 that fpake this, but truely therin 
 he fpake more like a Prophet or 
 an Euano-elifl: than a Poet. Now 
 then, if all this euill fhall moft 
 affuredly come to paffe, what 
 man is he, that feeing all this fo 
 certainly with the eyes of his 
 faith, will not turne ouer the 
 leafe, and begin to prouide for 
 him.felfe againft that time? 
 Where is the iudg^ment of men 
 now become? Where is their 
 wits? yea, where is at leaft their 
 
 felfe- 
 
 i8o
 
 Hels Torments. 
 
 [6i 
 
 felfe-loue, which feeketh euer- 
 more for his owne profit, and is 
 much affraid of any loffe ? May 
 it be thought that men are be- 
 come beafls, that prouide onely 
 for the time prefent? Or haue 
 they peraduenture fo dimmed 
 their eye-fight, that they cannot 
 looke before them? Hearken 
 (faith E/ay) O yee deafe and ye 
 blinde, open your eyes that you 
 may fee; Who is bhnde but my 
 feruant? And who is deafe but 
 yee, vnto whom I haue fent my 
 meffengers? And who is bHnd, 
 but he that fuffereth himfelfe to 
 be fokl for a flaue? Thou that 
 feeft fo many things, wilt thou 
 not fuffer thy felfe to fee this? 
 Thou that haft thine ears open, 
 wilt thou not giue eare hereun- 
 to? 
 
 i8i
 
 1 62 Hels Torments. 
 
 to? If thou beleeue not this, 
 how art thou then a Chriftian? 
 If thou beleeue it, and doeft not 
 prouide for it, how canft thou 
 be thought a reafonable man? 
 Aristotle faith, That this is the 
 difference betweene opinion 
 and imagination, that an imagi- 
 nation alone is not fufficient to 
 caufe a feare, but an opinion is: 
 for if I doe imagine that a houfe 
 may fall vpon mee, it is not 
 enough to make me afraid, vn- 
 leffe I beleeue or haue an opi- 
 nion it will be fo indeede: for 
 then it is fufhcient to make me 
 afraid. And hereof commeth 
 the feare that murderers al- 
 wayes haue, by reafon of the 
 fufpition they conceiue, that 
 their enemies doe lye in wait 
 
 for 
 
 1 82
 
 Hch To7'ments. 
 
 163 
 
 for them. If then the opinion 
 and onely fufpition of danger is 
 able to caufe the greateft cou- 
 rage to feare, how is it that the 
 certainty and beleefe of fo ma- 
 ny and fo great terrible miferies 
 (which are farre more fure than 
 any opinion) doth not make 
 thee to feare. If thou perceiueft 
 that for thefe many yeares paft 
 thou haft led a licentious and 
 fmfull life, and that at the laft, 
 according to prefent iuflice, 
 thou art condemned to thefe 
 horrible torments in hell: if al- 
 fo there appeare by probable 
 conie6lure, that there is no 
 more likelihood of thy amend- 
 ment for enfuing years to come, 
 than there was in thofe already 
 paft, how happeneth it, that run- 
 ning 
 
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 164 Hels Torments. 
 
 ning headlong into fo manifeft 
 a danger, thou art not at all a- 
 fraid ? Efpecially, confidering 
 the finfull ftate wherein thou 
 liueft, and the horrible paines 
 and torments which doe attend 
 for thee, and the time which 
 thou haft loft, and the endlefte 
 repentance which thou ftialt 
 haue therefore in the moft hor- 
 rible torments of hell. Affured- 
 ly, it goes beyond the compaffe 
 of all common fence & conceit 
 of humane reafon, to confider, 
 That there fhould be fuch neg- 
 ligent, wilfull, groffe, & careleffe 
 blindneffe, able to enter and take 
 fuch deepe rooting in the foule 
 of man. 
 
 The 
 
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 i65 
 
 The Conclufion of 
 all the Preniifes. 
 
 F now all this be fo, 
 I befeech thee euen 
 for the bitter paffi- 
 on of our fweet Sa- 
 uiour lefus Chrift, 
 to remember thy felfe, and con- 
 fider that thou art a Chriftian, 
 and that thou beleeueft affu- 
 redly for a moft vndoubted 
 truth, whatfoeuer the true faith 
 inftru6leth thee. This faith 
 
 telleth 
 
 iSS
 
 1 66 
 
 The Conclujion. 
 
 telleth thee, that thou haft a 
 iudge aboue that feeth all the 
 fteps and motions of thy life: 
 and that certainly there fhall a 
 day come, when he will require 
 an account of thee, euen for 
 euery idle word. This faith 
 teacheth thee, That a man is not 
 altogether at an end when he 
 dieth, but that after this tempo- 
 rail life, there remaineth ano- 
 ther euerlafhing life; and that 
 the foules dye not with the 
 bodies, but that whiles the 
 body remaineth in the graue, 
 vntill the generall day of iudge- 
 ment, the foule fhall enter into 
 another new country, and into 
 a new world, where it fliall haue 
 fuch habitation and company, 
 as the faith and workes were 
 
 which 
 
 1 86
 
 The Conclujion. 167 
 
 which it had in this life. This 
 faith telleth thee alfo, that both 
 the reward of vertue, and the 
 punifhment of vice, is a thing 
 fo wonderful!, that although 
 the whole world were full of 
 bookes, and all creatures were 
 writers, yet fhould they all be 
 wearied, and the world come to 
 an end, before they fliould end 
 their defcription, and make a 
 perfe6l declaration what is 
 comprehended in each one of 
 thefe points. This faith infor- 
 meth thee alfo, that the debts 
 and duties which we owe to al- 
 mighty God, are fo great, that 
 albeit a man had fo many Hues 
 as there be fands in the Sea, yet 
 would they not fuffice, if they 
 were al employed in his feruice. 
 
 And 
 
 187
 
 i68 
 
 The Conclujion. 
 
 And this faith likewife telleth 
 thee, that vertue is fuch an ex- 
 cellent treafure, that all the trea- 
 fures of the world, and all that 
 mans heart can defire, are in no 
 fort comparable vnto it. 
 
 Wherefore, if there be fo 
 many and fo great refpe6ls that 
 doe inuite vs vnto vertue, how 
 commeth it to paffe, that there 
 be fo few louers and followers 
 of the fame? If men be moued 
 with gaine & commodity, what 
 greater comodity can there be 
 than to attain life euerlafling? If 
 they be moued with feare of pu- 
 nifhment, what greater punifh- 
 ment can be found, than the moft 
 horrible euerlaiting dreadfull 
 torments in the lake of fire and 
 brimftone, to continue euer 
 
 world 
 
 1 88
 
 The Conclujion. 
 
 169 
 
 world without end? If that 
 bonds of debts and benefits; 
 what debts are greater than 
 thofe which we owe vnto al- 
 mighty God, as well for that he 
 is which he is, as alfo for that 
 which we haue receiued of him? 
 If the feare of perils doe moue 
 vs, what greater perill can there 
 be than death, the houre there- 
 of being fo vncertaine, and the 
 account fo ftrait? If thou be 
 moued with peace, liberty, qui- 
 etneffe of minde, and with a 
 pleafant life, (which are things 
 that all the world defires) it is 
 certaine, that all thefe are found 
 much better in the life that is 
 gouerned by vertue and reafon, 
 than in that life which is ruled 
 by the affe6lions and paffions of 
 I the 
 
 189
 
 I/O 
 
 The Conclujion. 
 
 the minde, forfomuch as man 
 is a reafonable creature, and no 
 beaft. Howbeit, in cafe thou 
 account all this as not fufficient 
 to moue thee thereunto, yet let 
 it fuffice thee to confider fur- 
 ther, that euen almighty God fo 
 abafed himfelfe for thy fake, 
 that he defcended from heauen 
 vnto the earth, and became 
 man, and whereas hee created 
 the whole world in fixe dayes, 
 he beftowed three and thirty 
 yeares about thy redemption; 
 yea, and was alfo contented for 
 the fame to loofe his life. Al- 
 mighty God dyed, that finne 
 fhould dye; and yet for all this 
 doe we endeauour, that fmne 
 might Hue in our hearts, not- 
 that our Lord 
 pur- 
 
 withftanding 
 
 190
 
 The Conclufion. 
 
 171 
 
 purpofed to take away the life 
 of finne with his owne death. 
 If this matter were to be difcuf- 
 fed with reafon, fureiy this al 
 ready fpoken might fuffice to 
 preuaile with any reafonable 
 creature: for not onely in be- 
 holding almighty God vpon the 
 croffe, but whetherfoeuer we 
 doe turne our eyes, we fhall 
 finde, that euery thing crieth 
 out to vs, and calleth vpon vs to 
 receiue this fo excellent a bene- 
 fit: for there is not a thing crea- 
 ted in the world (if wee duely 
 confider it) but doth inuite vs 
 to the loue and feruice of our 
 Sauiour lefus Chrift, infomuch, 
 that looke how many creatures 
 there be in the world, fo many 
 preachers there are, fo many 
 I 2 books. 
 
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 172 The Conclujion. 
 
 bookes, fo many voices, and fo 
 many reafons, which doe all call 
 vs vnto almighty God. 
 
 And how is it poffible then, 
 that fo many callings as thefe 
 are, fo many promifes, fo ma- 
 ny threatnings, and fo many 
 prouocationS; fhould not fuffice 
 to bring vs vnto him? What 
 might almighty God haue done 
 more than he hath done, or pro- 
 mifed more greater bleffmgs 
 than hee hath promifed, or 
 threatned more grieuous and 
 horrible torments than he hath 
 threatned, to draw vs vnto him, 
 and to plucke vs away from 
 fmne? And yet all this not- 
 withftanding, how commeth 
 it to paffe, that there is fo great 
 (\ will not fay arrogancy, but) 
 
 bewitch 
 
 192
 
 The Conclujion. 17; 
 
 bewitching of men, that doe be- 
 leeue thefe things to be certain- 
 ly true, and yet be not afraid to 
 continue all the dayes of their 
 life in the committing of deadly 
 fmnes? yea, to goe to bed in 
 deadly hnne, and to rife vp a- 
 gaine in deadly fmne, and to 
 embrue themfelues in euery 
 kinde of loathfome, deteftable, 
 and odious fm, euen as though 
 all their whole endeauours in- 
 tended by the pra6life of fmne, 
 to refifi: all grace and fauour in 
 the fiofht of God? And this is 
 done in fuch fort, fo without 
 feare, fo without fcruple of 
 minde, fo without breaking of 
 one houres fleepe, and without 
 the refraining of any one deli- 
 cate morfell of meat for the 
 I 3 fame, 
 
 193
 
 174 
 
 The Conchtjion. 
 
 fame, as if all that they belee- 
 ued were dreames, and old 
 wiues tales, and as if all that the 
 holy Euangelifhs haue written, 
 were meere ii6lion and fables. 
 But tell me thou that art fuch a 
 defperate wilfull rebell againft 
 thy Creator and Redeemer, 
 which by thy deteftable life and 
 diffolute conuerfation, doeft 
 euidence thy felfe to be a fire- 
 brand prepared to burne in 
 thofe euerlafting and reuenging 
 horrible fires of hell. What 
 wouldeft thou haue done more 
 than thou haft done, in cafe 
 thou haddeft beene perfwaded, 
 that all were meere lyes which 
 thou haft beleeued? For al- 
 though that for feare of incur- 
 ring the danger of the princes 
 
 lawes, 
 
 194
 
 The Coiulujion. 
 
 175 
 
 lawes, and the execution of 
 their force vpon thee, thou haft 
 fomewhat brideled thine appe- 
 tites; yet doth it not appeare, 
 that for any feare of Almighty 
 God, thou haft refrained thy 
 will in any one thing, neither 
 from carnall pleafures, not from 
 backbiting and Handering thy 
 neighbours, nor yet from ful- 
 filling thine inordinate lufts 
 and defires, in cafe thine ability 
 ferued thee thereunto. Oh, what 
 doth the worme of thy confci- 
 ence fay vnto thee, whiles thou 
 art in fuch a fond fecuritie and 
 confidence, continuing in fuch 
 a diffolute and wicked life as 
 thou doeft? Where is now be- 
 come the vnderftanding, iudge- 
 ment, and reafon, which thou 
 
 I 4 haft 
 
 T95
 
 176 
 
 The Conclujion. 
 
 haft of a man? Why art thou 
 not afraid of fo horrible, fo cer- 
 taine, and fo affured perils and 
 dangers? If there were a difli 
 of meat fet before thee, & fome 
 man (albeit he were a Iyer) 
 fhould fay vnto thee, refraine to 
 touch and eat thereof, for it is 
 poyfoned; durft thou once ad- 
 uenture to ftretch out thy hand, 
 to take a tafte thereof, though 
 the meat were neuer fo fauorie 
 and delicate, and he neuer fo 
 great a Iyer that fhould beare 
 thee thus in handP If then the 
 Prophets, if the Apoflles, if the 
 Euangelifts, yea, if i\lmighty 
 God himfelfe doe cry out vnto 
 thee, and fay, Take heede thou 
 miferable man, for death is in 
 that kind of meat, and death 
 
 doth 
 
 196 
 
 J
 
 The Conchijion. 
 
 [77 
 
 doth lye lurking in that glutto- 
 nous morfell, which the diuell 
 hath fet before thee? How da- 
 reft thou reach for euerlafting 
 death with thine owne hands, 
 and drinke thine owne damna- 
 tion. Where is the applying of 
 thy wits, thy iudgement, and the 
 difcourfe and reafon which 
 thou haft of a fpirituall man? 
 Where is their light, where is 
 their force? Sith that none of 
 them doe bridle thee any whit 
 from thy common vfuall vices. 
 Oh thou wretched and care- 
 leffe creature, bewitched by the 
 common enemy Satan, adiudg- 
 ed to euerlafting darkneffe, both 
 inward and outward, and fo 
 doeft o'oe from one darkneffe 
 to the other. Thou art blinde 
 
 I 5 to 
 
 197
 
 178 
 
 The Conchifion. 
 
 to fee thine owne mifery, in- 
 fenfible to vnderftand thine 
 owne perdition, and harder 
 than any Adamant, to feele the 
 hammer of Gods word. Oh, a 
 thoufand times mofh miferable 
 thou art, worthy to be lamen- 
 ted with none other tea res, than 
 with thofe wherwith thy dam- 
 nation was lamented, when it 
 was faid, Lttke 19. Oh, that thou 
 knezveji this day the peace, qiiict- 
 nejje, and treafures, which A I 
 mighty God hath offered vnto 
 thee, that doe noiv lye hidden from 
 thi7ie eyes. Oh miferable is the 
 day of thy natiiiitie, and much 
 more miferable the day of thy 
 death: forfomuch, as that fhall 
 be the beginning of thine euer- 
 lafting damnation. Oh, how 
 
 much 
 
 198
 
 The Conclujion. 179 
 
 much better had it beene for 
 thee, neiier to haue beene born, 
 if thou Ihalt l^e damned in the 
 horrible pit of hell for euer, 
 where the torments are perpe- 
 tually durable. How much 
 better had it beene for thee ne- 
 uer to haue beene baptifed, not 
 yet to haue receiued the Chri- 
 ftian faith, if through the abu- 
 fmg thereof by thy wicked life, 
 thy damnation fhall thereby be 
 the oreater? For if the lig-ht of 
 reafon onely fufficeth to make 
 the Heathen Phylofophers in- 
 excufeable, becaufe they know- 
 ing God in fome degree, did 
 not orlorifie him nor ferue him 
 (as the Apoftle faith in the firft 
 to the Romans) how much leffe 
 fhall hee be excufed, that hath 
 
 receiued 
 
 199
 
 i8o The Conclujion. 
 
 receiued the light of faith, and 
 the water of Baptifme, yea, and 
 the holy Sacrament of the body 
 and bloud of our Lord and Sa- 
 uiour lefus Chrift, hearing daily 
 the do6lrine of the Gofpell, if 
 hee doe nothing more than 
 thofe Pagan Phylofophers haue 
 done. 
 
 Now, what other thing may 
 we inferre of the premiffes, but 
 briefly to conclude, That there 
 is none other vnderftanding, 
 none other wifedome, none o- 
 ther counfell in the world, but 
 that fetting afide all the impedi- 
 ments and comberfome dan- 
 gerous wayes of this life, wee 
 follow that onely true and cer- 
 taine way, whereby true peace 
 and euerlafting life is obtained. 
 
 Here 
 
 200
 
 The Conclufion. 
 
 i8i 
 
 Hereunto are we called by rea- 
 fon, by wifedonie, by law, by 
 heauen, by earth, by hell, and by 
 the life, death, iuftice, and mercy 
 of x^lmighty God. Hereunto 
 are we alfo very "notably inui- 
 ted by the holy Ghoft, fpeaking 
 by the mouth of Ecc/cjiasticus 
 in the fixt chapter, in this wife: 
 My fonne harken to inftruction 
 euen from the firft yeares of thy 
 youth, and in thy latter dayes 
 thou fhalt enioy the fweet fruit 
 of wifedome: Approach vnto 
 it, as one that ploweth and 
 foweth, and with patience ex- 
 pe6l the fruitful encreafe which 
 it fhall yeeld vnto thee. The 
 paines that thou fhalt take, fhall 
 be but little, and the benefits 
 that thou fhalt fpeedily enioy, 
 
 fhall 
 
 201
 
 1 82 The Conclujion. 
 
 fhall be great. M y fonne hearken 
 to my words, and negle6l not 
 this my coimfell which I fhall 
 giue thee, put thy feet willingly 
 into her fetters, and thy necke 
 into her chaines: bow downe 
 thy fhoulders, and carry her 
 vpon thee, and be not difpleafed 
 with her bonds: approach 
 neere vnto her with all thy 
 heart, and follow her wayes 
 with all thy ftrength, feeke for 
 her Avith all thy diligence, and 
 fhe will make her felfe known^ 
 vnto thee, and after that thou 
 haft found her, neuer forfake 
 her.- for by her fhalt thou finde 
 reft in thy latter dayes, and that 
 which before did feeme fo pain- 
 full vnto thee, will afterwards 
 become very pleafant. Her fet- 
 ters 
 
 202
 
 The Conclujion. 183 
 
 ters fliall be a defence of thy 
 ftrength, and a foundation of 
 vertue, and her chaine fhall be a 
 robe of glory: for in her is the 
 beauty of life, and her bonds 
 are the bonds of health. Hether- 
 to Ecclejiasticus. Whereby thou 
 maieft vnderftand in fome de- 
 gree, how great the beauty, the 
 delights, the liberty, and riches 
 of true wifdome are, which is 
 vertue it felfe, and the know- 
 ledge of Almight)- God, wher- 
 of we doe intreat. But if all 
 this be infufficient to mollifie 
 our flony hearts, lift vp thine 
 eyes, and fix thy thoughts con- 
 ftantly to behold our omnipo- 
 tent God in his mercy and loue 
 towards finners vpon his dying 
 croffe, where he made full fa- 
 
 tisfa6lion
 
 184 The Conclujion. 
 
 j tisfa6lIon for thy fmnes. There 
 flialt thou behold him In this 
 forme: his feet nailed faft, look- 
 ing for thee; his armes fpread 
 abroad to receiue thee, and his 
 head bowing downe, to giue 
 thee, as to another prodigall 
 fonne, new kiffes of peace and 
 attonement. From thence hee 
 calleth thee (if thou wouldeft 
 hearey) with fo many callings 
 and cries as there be wounds in 
 his whole body. Hearken thou 
 therefore vnto thefe voyces, and 
 confider well with thy felfe, 
 that if his prayer be not heard 
 that hearkeneth not vnto the 
 cries of the poore, how much 
 leffe fhall he be heard, that ma- 
 keth himfelfe deafe to fuch cries 
 as thefe, being the moft merci- 
 
 full 
 
 204
 
 The Conclujlon. 
 
 185 
 
 full cryings of our louing faui- 
 our. and intended for our foules 
 faluation. Who is he that hath 
 not caufe to refolue himfelfe 
 wholly into teares to weepe 
 and bewaile his manifold offen- 
 ces ? Who is he that can lament, 
 and will not lament at this? 
 vnleffc he be fuch a one as feeth 
 not, nor careth not what great 
 fhipwracke, wafte, and hauocke 
 he maketh of all the riches and 
 treafures of his foule. 
 
 FINIS. 
 
 205
 
 GODL V 
 
 PRAYERS 
 
 NECESSARY 
 
 AND VSEFVLL 
 
 for Chriftian Families 
 
 7jJ)ou fcnerall oc- 
 
 cafioiis. 
 
 Therefore I fay vntoyou. What 
 things foeitcr yee dejire zvhen yee 
 pray, beleeue that ye receiue them, 
 andyejhall hatie them. 
 
 Printed at London for 
 M.S. 1628.
 
 1 89 
 
 Godly Chrifti- 
 
 an Prayers. 
 
 A houJJtold Prayer for pri- 
 
 uate Families in the 
 
 Morning. 
 
 Oft mighty and glori- 
 ous God, the onely 
 Craator and Gouer- 
 nour of heauen and 
 earth, and all things therein 
 contained, we miferable fmners 
 
 here 
 
 209
 
 190 Morning Prayer 
 
 here met together by thy grace, 
 doe in thy feare proftrate our 
 felues before thy throne of Ma- 
 iefty and glory, defiring in fome 
 meafure to fhew our vnfained 
 thankfuhieffe, for thy innume- 
 rable mercies multiplied vpon 
 vs from the firfl houre of our 
 birth, yea before our birth, and 
 before time was. Before the 
 foundations of the world were 
 laid, thou out of thy free loue 
 and meere mercy, didft ele6l vs 
 to eternall life, when thou didft 
 reie6l others. Thou didft cre- 
 ate vs after thine owne image, 
 engrauing vpon vs the chara- 
 6lers of fpirituall wifedome, 
 righteoufneffe, and true holi- 
 neffe; when it was in thy power 
 to haue made vs like vnto the 
 
 beafts 
 
 :io
 
 for a Familic. 1 9 1 
 
 beafts that perifli; yea, to haue 
 equalled vs to the bafeft of thy 
 creatures. And when throueh 
 our owne default we loft that 
 dignity, thou didft fo pittie vs as 
 to fend from thine owne bo- 
 fome thine onely begotten Son 
 to recouer it for vs, and to re- 
 ftore it to vs, and that with no 
 leffe price then his owne heart- 
 bloud. Befides, it hath pleafed 
 thee continually to fpread the 
 wings of thy gracious prote6li- 
 on ouer vs, to ward and guard 
 vs by thy prouidence, to open 
 thy hand and to replenifli vs 
 with good things, to continue 
 our life, health, ftrength, food, 
 raiment, peace, and liberty, to 
 this very houre. Thou haft e- 
 uen loaded vs with thy benefits, 
 
 if 
 
 air
 
 192 Morning Prayer 
 
 if we had hearts rightly to con- 
 fider it; thou renewefl: thy mer- 
 cy toward vs euery morning; 
 and the night paft haft giuen vs 
 a teftimony of thy loue: For 
 whereas, for the fmnes com- 
 mitted the day before, thou 
 mighteft euen in the dead of 
 fleepe haue giuen vs a fodaine 
 call out of this world, and fo 
 prefently haue brought vs to 
 that great account which wee 
 muft make before thee, thou 
 vouchfafeft yet to fpare vs, yea 
 (which is more) to refrefh vs 
 with comfortable reft, to pre- 
 ferue vs from all dangers that 
 might haue befallen our foules 
 or bodies, and to bring vs in 
 fafety to the beginning of this 
 day. Heauenly father, grant 
 
 that 
 
 212
 
 for a Familie. 193 
 
 that we may not be vnmindfull 
 of thy manifold mercies, but 
 that wee may often thinke of 
 them, and fpeake of tliem to thy 
 glory; and that the confidera- 
 tion thereof may ftirre vs vp to 
 denote all the powers of our 
 foules, and members of our 
 bodies to thy feruice. Forgiue 
 vs our former vnthankfulneffe 
 for thy mercies, and our feueral 
 abufes of them, yea pardon all 
 our finnes paft, we moft hum- 
 bly befeech thee, for thy owne 
 mercies fake, and for thy fonnes 
 merits. Our finnes are great 
 and grieuous, for in finne we 
 were borne, and euer fince haue 
 we gone on in a courfe of finne 
 and rebellion againft thee, we 
 doe daily breake thy holy pre- 
 K cepts, 
 
 213
 
 194 Morning Prayer 
 
 cepts, and that agalnft the light 
 of our owne knowledge, albeit 
 we know that thou art our Cre- 
 atour, who haft made vs; our 
 Redeemer, who haft bought vs 
 with the precious bloud of thy 
 onely begotten Sonne; and our 
 Comforter, who beftoweft 
 vpon vs all things needfull for 
 our being and well-being, for 
 this life and for a better life. 
 Yea euen thee, thee (O Lord) 
 haue we prefumed to offend, 
 that haft beene thus abundantly 
 mercifull vnto vs. For this our 
 vnthankefulneffe and wicked- 
 neffe, enter not into iudgement 
 with vs, wee moft humbly be- 
 feech thee from the bottome 
 of our hearts; but haue mercy 
 vpon vs, haue mere)- vpon vs, 
 
 moft 
 
 2H4i
 
 for a Familie. 195 
 
 mofl mercifull Father, and in 
 mercy wafh away all our fnines 
 with the blond of lefus Chrift, 
 that fo they may neuer be laid 
 to our charge, nor haue power 
 to rife vp in iudgement againft 
 vs. Pierce our hearts with a 
 feeling of our finnes, that wee 
 may mourne for them, as wee 
 ought to doe; make vs to loath 
 and abhorre them, that we may 
 leaue and auoid them, that we 
 may be watchfull againft all 
 occafions of fume, and circum- 
 fpe6l ouer our owne wayes. 
 Poure thy fpirit and put thy 
 grace into our hearts, that there- 
 by we may be inabled for thy 
 feruice, and both in body and 
 foule may glorifie thee heere, 
 that wee Tnay be glorified of 
 K 2 thee 
 
 21S
 
 196 
 
 Morning Prayer 
 
 thee and with thee hereafter. 
 And as a fpeclall meanes to 
 keepe vs in fubiecftion before 
 thee, worke in vs, holy Father, 
 a continuall and effe6luall re- 
 membrance of this earths vani- 
 ty, of our owne mortahty, of 
 that great and terrible iudge- 
 ment to come; of the paines of 
 hell, and ioyes of heauen which 
 follow after; O let the remem- 
 brance of thefe things be a fpur 
 to prouoke vs vnto vertue, and 
 a bridle to hold vs in from gal- 
 lopping after vice and wicked- 
 neffe. We know not how foone 
 thou wilt fet a period to our 
 Hues, and call for our foules to 
 appeare before thee, whether 
 this day or not before the eue- 
 ning; O prepare vs therefore 
 
 for 
 
 216
 
 for a Familie. 197 
 
 for the houre of death, that we 
 may then neither feare nor 
 faint, but may with icy yeeld vp 
 our foules into thy mercifull 
 hands, and doe thou, O Father 
 of mercy, receiue them. Let thy 
 mercifull eye looke vpon vs this 
 day, fliield vs from the tempta- 
 tions of the diuell, and grant vs 
 the cuftody of thy holy Angels, 
 to defend vs in all our wayes: 
 enable vs with dilio-ence and 
 confcience to difcharee the du- 
 ties of our callings, and crowne 
 all our endeauours with thy 
 bleffmg: without thy bleffmg 
 all mans labour is but vaine, 
 doe thou therefore bleffe vs in 
 our feuerall places; oh profper 
 thou our handy-worke Prouide 
 for vs all things which thou 
 K 3 knoweft 
 
 217
 
 198 Morning Prayer 
 
 knoweft to be needful for euery 
 one of vs this day. Giue vs a 
 fan6lified vfe of thy creatures, 
 a godly iealoufie ouer ourfelues, 
 a continual remembrance of thy 
 omnifcience, and omniprefence, 
 that we may labour to approue 
 our very thoughts vnto thee; 
 weane vs from the loue of this 
 world, and rauifh our foules 
 with the loue of our home and 
 thine euerlafling Kingdome. 
 Defend the vniuerfall Church, 
 the Churches of this Land ef- 
 pecially, our gracious King 
 Chaides, our illuftrious Oueene 
 Mary, together with Prince Pa- 
 latine Ele6lour, the Princeffe 
 Elizabeth his wife, and their 
 Princely iffue; crowne them 
 with thy graces here, and with 
 
 thy 
 
 218
 
 for a Familie. 
 
 199 
 
 thy glory hereafter. Be with 
 the Magiflracie and Minifterie 
 of the Realme, make thy Gof- 
 pell to flourifli amongft vs by 
 the labors of thofe whom thou 
 haft appointed to this great fer- 
 uice. Comfort thine afflicSled 
 feruants, in what place or cafe 
 foeuer they be; giue vs a fel- 
 low feeling of their miferies, 
 and wifedome to prepare our 
 felues againft the euill day. 
 Heare vs in thefe things, and 
 ofrant what elfe thou knoweft 
 needfull for vs, not for our wor- 
 thineffe, but for thy Sons fake, 
 our alone Sauiour, in whofe 
 name and words, we conclude 
 our imperfect prayers, faying: 
 Otir Father, &c. 
 
 K4 A 
 
 219
 
 200 
 
 
 Fnra^MiaaRTCT^armi^miaiaimiyi 
 
 MM^^IS 
 
 A houJJiold Prayer for pri- 
 
 iiate Families in the 
 
 Buening. 
 
 Glorious God;, in 
 lefus Chrift our Qfra- 
 cious Father, wee 
 wretched creatures 
 by nature, but by thy grace thy 
 feruants and children, doe here 
 make bold to appeare before 
 thee in the humility of our 
 foules, to performe fome part 
 of that dutie which wee owe 
 vnto thee. And firft we offer 
 vnto thy diuine Maieftie the 
 
 calues 
 
 220
 
 for a Faniilie. 20 1 
 
 calues of our lips, the facrifice 
 of praife and thankfgiuing for 
 thine infinite mercies which 
 thou haft beene pleafed to con- 
 ferre vpon vs out of thy bound- 
 leffe and endleffe or-oodneffe. 
 What thou haft done for vs this 
 day, is beyond all that we are 
 able to expreffe or conceiue: 
 thou haft preferued vs from all 
 perils and dangers, fo that none 
 of thofe iudgements (which our 
 finnes haue deferued) haue bin 
 infli6led vpon vs; thou haft 
 inlarged our time and opportu- 
 nitie to repent; thou haft pro- 
 uided for our foules and bodies; 
 thou haft bin no way wanting 
 vnto vs, if we had hearts to ac- 
 knowledge it. Forgiue vs that 
 wee cannot acknowledge thy 
 K 5 goodneffe 
 
 221
 
 202 Etiening Pi^ayer 
 
 goodneffe as we ought to doe, 
 and more and more quicken vs 
 in this dutie, that we may with 
 heart and voyce acknowledge 
 thee to be that Father of Hghts, 
 from whom we doe receiue 
 euery good and perfedl gift: 
 afcribing vnto thee the whole 
 glory of all that we enioy, both 
 now and euermore. And grant 
 we pray thee, that our thank- 
 fulneffe may not be onely ver- 
 ball, but reall, we labouring in 
 deede and in truth to be dutifuU 
 vnto thee that haft bin fo boun- 
 tifull vnto vs. Pardon vs for the 
 fmnes of this day, wherein we 
 haue offended thee, whether 
 open or fecret, of ignorance or 
 of knowledge, of iniirmity or 
 prefumption, of omifiion or 
 
 com- 
 
 222
 
 for a Familie. 203 
 
 commiffion, in thought, word 
 or deed. The finnes of this day 
 are enough to plunge vs, foule 
 and body, into the bottomeleffe 
 gulfe of perdition. If thou 
 fhouldefl: ftraightly mark them, 
 what anfwer fhall we be able to 
 make thee, how fhall we dare 
 to appeare in thy prefence, be- 
 fore whom all thy creatures 
 feare and tremble? But thy 
 mercy is aboue all thy workes; 
 much more aboue all our works 
 of fmne. In the confidence of 
 thy mercy we come vnto thee, 
 befeeching thee in thy fonne 
 Chrift to be reconciled with vs, 
 and to affure vs hereof by the 
 certificate of thine owne bleffed 
 fpirit. Breake the ftrength of 
 fmne that would fubdue vs more 
 
 and
 
 204 Euening Prayer 
 
 and more; and reare In vs cleane 
 hearts, and renew a right fpirit 
 within vs. Increafe our faith in 
 the fweet promifes of the Gof- 
 pell, and our repentance from 
 dead workes, our hope of eter- 
 nall hfe, our feare of thy name, 
 our zeale for thy glory, our ha- 
 tred of fume, our loue of righ- 
 teoufneffe, our contentment in 
 all eftates, our patience in ad- 
 uerfitie, our prudence in profpe- 
 rity: that fo being furnifhed 
 with the endowments of grace 
 here, we may be fitted for the 
 enioyment of glory hereafter. 
 And becaufe the night is now 
 vpon vs, and our bodies defirous 
 of quiet reft, wee pray thee to 
 take vs into thy bleffed tuition, 
 and to refrefh our weaned bo- 
 dies 
 
 224
 
 for a Fainilie. 205 
 
 dies with comfortable fleepe. 
 Protect vs and all that doe be- 
 long vnto vs vnder the fhadow 
 of thy wings, defend vs from all 
 euill, both of fmne and pimifh- 
 ment: keepe vs from fecurity 
 and carelefneffe, from dulneffe 
 and drowfmeffe of fpirit, from 
 fire and robbery, from the ma- 
 lice of Satan and all his adhe- 
 rents, from all perils into which 
 for our fmnes we might iufhly 
 fall. Let the fight of the bed 
 mind vs of that laft bed, the 
 graue, wherein we are fliortly 
 to take vp our lodging, we know 
 not how foone. None of vs 
 here prefent can certainly tell, 
 whether thefe eyes of ours once 
 clofed vp, fliall euer any more 
 open againe in this world: 
 
 therefore 
 
 22!
 
 2o6 Euenmg Prayer 
 
 therfore receiue vs, good Lord, 
 receiue vs into the armes of 
 thy mercy, vnto thine almighty 
 prote61ion wee bequeath our 
 felues, foules and bodies, and all 
 that we haue: vpon thy mercy 
 alone we caft our felues both 
 this prefent night and for euer 
 more. Be mercifull to thy 
 whole Church, continue the 
 flourifhino- ftate of the King-- 
 domes, wherin we Hue. Decreafe 
 in it the number of fuperftitious 
 Papifts and prophane Atheifts, 
 and increafe in it the number of 
 fuch as vnfalnedly feare thee. 
 Preferue from all danofers and 
 confpiracies our religious King 
 Charles, our gracious Oueene 
 Mary, the Prince Palatine of 
 Rhene, with that excellent Lady 
 
 Elizabeth 
 
 226
 
 for a Familie. 207 
 
 Elizabeth his wife, and their 
 children. Giue them all fuch a 
 meafure of thy fpirit and grace; 
 that they may feeke to aduance 
 thy kingdome on earth, and at 
 laft be aduanced to thine euer- 
 lafting Kingdome in heauen. 
 Endow the right Honorable of 
 our Priuie Counfcll with all 
 fuch graces as may make them 
 fit for fo high a place. Stirre vp 
 Magiftrates and men in autho- 
 rity, to endeauour after the fur- 
 thering of thine honour, and the 
 benefiting of thy people. Make 
 the Minifters able and willing 
 to difcharge the duties of their 
 weighty calling with diligence 
 and confcience; water their in- 
 deauours with the dew of hea- 
 uen, that daily fuch as belong 
 
 vnto 
 
 227
 
 2o8 Euening Prayer 
 
 vnto life eternall may be added 
 vnto the Church. Comfort, 
 O comfort thine affli6led fer- 
 uants, wherefoeuer or howfoe- 
 uer troubled: fweeten their af- 
 tli6lions and feafon their for- 
 rowes with the comforts of thy 
 fpirit. Giue them all needfull 
 affiftance, and in thy owne time 
 a ioyfull deliuerance. And make 
 vs ready for affli6lions, that 
 they may not come vpon vs as 
 a fnare, but that we may in good 
 meafure, like wife Virgins be 
 prepared for the comming of 
 Chrift lefus, the fweet Bride - 
 groome of our foules. Finally, 
 we pray thee beare with the 
 weakeneffe, and coldneffe, and 
 imperfe6lion of our prayers, 
 & to grant our requefts, not for 
 
 our 
 
 228
 
 Euening Prayer. 209 
 
 our merits^ but for thine owne 
 mercies, and for the fake of thy 
 dearely beloued Sonne lefus 
 Chrift, who died to make fatif- 
 fa6lion for vs, & Hueth to make 
 interceffion for vs, in whofe 
 words we fhut vp our imperfe6l 
 prayers, faying, as himfelfe hath 
 taught vs. Otir Father, &c. 
 
 O Lord bleffe and faue vs, 
 
 make thy face to fhine vpon vs, 
 
 thy word to inftruft vs, thy 
 
 grace to dire6l vs, thy Angels 
 
 to protect vs, thy fpirit to 
 
 comfort and fupport vs, 
 
 vnto the end, and in 
 
 the end. Amen, 
 
 Amen, 
 
 A 
 
 229
 
 2IO 
 
 A Prayer in time 
 of M'^arre. 
 
 H Lord God of hoafts, 
 in power inuincible, in 
 wifedome vnfearcha- 
 ble, in mercy incomprehenfible; 
 that giueft deliuerance in the 
 time of trouble, and affiftance in 
 the day of battell; wee moft 
 humbly and heartily befeech 
 thee to faue vs from all thofe 
 extremities, and in fpeciall from 
 our enemies, which our fmnes 
 doe threaten to bring vpon vs. 
 
 Hitherto 
 
 250
 
 A Prayer iit time of Warre. 2 1 1 
 
 Hitherto thou haft pleafed to 
 make our Nation a fpectacle of 
 thy ineffable goodneffe, but we 
 deferue to be made a fpe6lacle 
 of thy vnfupportable wrath. 
 Our contempt of thy threat- 
 nings, our abufe of thy mercies, 
 our negle(5l of tliy iudgements, 
 with infinite other inormities, 
 doe menace the taking away of 
 thy old mercies, and the bring- 
 ing in of fome iudgement We 
 haue iuft caufe to feare, O Lord, 
 that our loud and crying fmnes 
 doe call in our enemies vpon 
 vs, and arme them againft vs; 
 yea, that they are already preft 
 and prepared to execute th}^ 
 vengeance. Then open our 
 eyes, we pray thee, that we may 
 fee thy Enfigne fet vp, thy Ban- 
 ner 
 
 231
 
 212 
 
 A P^'ayer. 
 
 ner difplayed, and the euidence 
 of thy approaching- fword : open 
 our eares that wee may heare 
 thee blowing of thy trumpet, 
 and giuing the alarum to warre : 
 open our hearts that we may 
 not be fecure in fo great danger, 
 but may quake and tremble to 
 fee th)' hand of vengeance be- 
 fore vs. And howfoeuer by our 
 fmnes we are fet in the middeft 
 of this danger, yet let the hand 
 of thy mercy f^which is as om- 
 nipotent as that of thy iuftice) 
 refcue vs; let thy out-ftretched 
 arme deliuer vs. Put vp thy 
 fword into the fcabbard; oh 
 bid it reft and be ftill. Be fauou- 
 rable and gracious vnto this thy 
 Syon, crowne her with plenty, 
 profperity, and vi6tory. Let not 
 
 her 
 
 2X2
 
 A Prayer. 
 
 her enemies reioyce in her fub- 
 uerfion, nor triumph in her 
 deflru6Hon. Hide not thy face 
 from her in the day of trouble; 
 ftoppe not thine eares at our 
 prayers. Be vnto vs all a home 
 of faluation, a rocke of fafetie, 
 a wall of braffe, a ftrong tower 
 and fortreffe againft the face 
 and force of our enemies: 
 diuert their defignes, fruftrate 
 their enuie, abate their fury, 
 affwage their pride, reftraine 
 their power: and in thy name 
 let vs tread them vnder, that 
 malicioufly and mifchieuoufly 
 rife vp againft vs. Suffer not the 
 light of thy Gofpel to be eclip- 
 fed, nor the fplender of thy 
 glory to be obfcured; let not 
 thy name be diflionoured, nor 
 
 thy 
 
 213
 
 2 14 -^ Prayer. 
 
 thy San6tuary defiled, nor thy 
 truth Oandered: but now and 
 euer defend and deliuer (as thou 
 haft formerly done) this Church 
 and State, from plague, Pefti- 
 lence, and aboue all, that mofl 
 terrible vengeance, the deuou- 
 ringjword: and that for his fake 
 who hath led captiuity captiue, 
 and like a vi61;orious Conque- 
 ror hath triumphed ouer all his 
 enemies, euen lefus Chrift, to 
 whom with the Father and 
 holy Ghoft, be all ho- 
 nour and glory. 
 Amen. 
 
 A 
 
 234
 
 215 
 
 A Prayer for them that 
 are aboiU the Sickc. 
 
 Eare vs, Almighty and 
 mod mercifull God 
 and Sauiour, extend 
 thine accuftomed goodneffe to 
 this thy feruant, which is grie- 
 ued with fickneffe; vifite him 
 (O Lord) as thou didft Peters 
 wiues mother, and the Captains 
 feruant, reftore vnto this ficke 
 body his former heahh (if it be 
 thy will) or elfe giue him grace 
 to take this thy vifitation pati- 
 ently, 
 
 235
 
 214 A Prayer. 
 
 ently, that after this painfull life 
 ended he may dwell with thee 
 in euerlafting life: O Lord, be- 
 hold we bend our knees, yea 
 the knees of our hearts with 
 vnfained prayers, & lift vp our 
 eyes to the throne of thy mer- 
 cies feat, to hearken to thefe our 
 petitions, according to thy 
 promifes, therefore, O Lord 
 grant our requefts, we are ga- 
 thered here together in thy 
 name, in the behalfe of this thy 
 feruant; deliuer him we hum- 
 bly befeech thee, from thefe his 
 languifhing paines and miferies 
 of fickneffe, and as it hath plea- 
 fed thee to lay thine hand vpon 
 him; fo, O Lord, reftore him 
 to his former health; keepe him, 
 O Lord, from fearefull and 
 
 terrible 
 
 236
 
 A Prayer. 215 
 
 terrible affaults, and defpightful 
 temptations of the diuell, finne, 
 and hell : deliuer him, O Lord, 
 as thou deliueredfl Noah from 
 the raging wanes of the flouds; 
 Lot from the deftrucftion of So- 
 doine\ Abraham from the feare 
 of the Caldeans; the children of 
 Ifrael from the tyranny of Pha- 
 raoh ; Dauid from the hands of 
 Goliah\ the three men from the 
 violence of the fiery furnace in 
 Babylo7i ; Daniel from the mouth 
 of the Lyons; Jonas from the 
 belly of the Whale, and Peter 
 from the prifon of Herod: Euen 
 fo, O gracious Lord, deliuer the 
 foule of this perfon, both now, 
 and whenfoeuer he fhall depart 
 hence from all perill and dan- 
 ger, open vnto him at the houre 
 
 L of 
 
 237
 
 2i6 A Prayer. 
 
 of death the doore of Paradice, 
 the gates of heauen, and the en- 
 try of euerlafting Hfe, O Lord 
 lefus Chrift forgiue him all his 
 finnes, and lead him with ioy 
 into the kingdome of thy hea- 
 uenly Father, euen vnto the bo- 
 fome of Abraham, and appoint 
 him his euerl fting reft that he 
 may reioyce with thee, and all 
 the ele6t children of God, to 
 whom be all honour, glory, 
 power, and domi- 
 nion. Amen. 
 
 The 
 
 238
 
 Theficke pevfons 
 Prayer. 
 
 Ord hearken to my 
 prayer, and giue eare 
 to my humble requeft, 
 Lord be mercifull vnto 
 me, and giue me grace patiently 
 to beare the croffe, and in the 
 midft of this my fickneffe al- 
 wayes to fay; thy will, O hea- 
 uenly Father, be done, and not 
 mine; forgiue and forget, moft 
 gracious Father, all mine iniqui- 
 ties, blot them out of thy re- 
 membrance and caft them from 
 L 2 thy 
 
 217 
 
 239
 
 2 [ 8 A Prayer. 
 
 thy fight, O Lord, as farre as 
 the Eafh is from the Weft, the 
 North from the South: they 
 are many and innumerable, let 
 them not rife vp in iudgement 
 againft me: neither enter thou 
 into thy narrow iudgement 
 with thy feruant, O Lord, for 
 no flefli is righteous before thee, 
 handle me not according to my 
 deferts, deale not with me after 
 my wickedneffe, neither reward 
 me after mine iniquities ; O Lord 
 my God looke not into my en- 
 ormious nor inceflious life: I am 
 afhamed of my fmnes, and aske 
 pardon for my faults, euen with 
 a repenting heart and forrow- 
 full minde, a bleeding foule, 
 with hidden teares of a true and 
 vnfained repentance for my 
 
 mifdeeds; 
 
 240
 
 A Prayer. 2 1 9 
 
 mifdeeds; yea, my wounded 
 breaft furcharged with oppref- 
 fing greefes, doth figh, groane, 
 and lament vnder the burthen 
 of my heinous crimes: where- 
 fore, O Lord, wafli them away 
 with thy bloud which thou haft 
 filed for my fmnes, and I fhall 
 be clean and pure without fpot; 
 purge nie, O Lord, with thofe 
 precious drops that diftilled 
 from thy tormented heart, and 
 I fhall be whiter then the fnow, 
 burie mine offences in the fe- 
 pulcher of thy death, and cloath 
 me with the garment of righte- 
 oufneffe, O Lord, for thine in- 
 finite goodneffe and mercy fake 
 receiue me into thy tuition and 
 fauour; pardon, O Lord, and 
 remit my fms, as thou forgauefl 
 L 3 Dmiid 
 
 241
 
 220 A Prayer. 
 
 Dauid his murther and adultery 
 with BerJJieba; Saul his perfecu- 
 tions of thy people; Peter his 
 ■deniall ; Mary Magdalen her laf- 
 ciuious life, and the Publican in 
 the Temple with ftriking his 
 breaft craned th)- gracious par- 
 don : faying, Lord haue 7nercy 
 vpon me a Jinner, and although 
 my finnes and offences are farre 
 greater, and more grieuous then 
 thefe; yet, O Lord, thy mercies 
 exceede and are far more com- 
 paffionate then our fmnes ma- 
 nifold; I iuflifie not my felfe, O 
 my God, by the offences of 
 thefe, but declare thy righteouf- 
 neffe and mercifull clemencies 
 in forgetting and forgiuing our 
 abhominable trefpaffes and 
 tranfgreffions of thy wil, which 
 
 though 
 
 242
 
 A Prayer. 
 
 though wee are froward, yet 
 thou art gentle, though we are 
 ftubborne, yet thou art meeke, 
 and though we run headlong to 
 the pits brinke, and to the gates 
 of hell; yet thou of thy good- 
 neffe calleft vs backe, and re- 
 mitteft all that wee haue done 
 amiffe; O Lord, I haue acknow- 
 ledged my faults that they are 
 befl knowne vnto thee: where- 
 fore, O Lord, I aske forgiuenes 
 for the fame, fend me the com- 
 fort of thy holy fpirit, that if 
 thou glue me my former health 
 and ftrength of body, I may 
 amend my life according to thy 
 facred will, and walke worthi- 
 ly in thy Lawes and Comman- 
 dements: if it be thy pleafure 
 to take mee hence out of this 
 L 4 tranfitory 
 
 221 
 
 243
 
 2 22 A Praye7\ 
 
 tranfitory life, O Lord, grant 
 that I may reft and Hue with 
 thee for euer, world without 
 end. O Lord, heaken vnto thefe 
 my petitions for lefus Chift his 
 fake, I aske them and all other 
 things which thou fhalt thinke 
 meet both for our foules and 
 bodies In the fame forme of 
 prayer as hee himfelfe hath 
 taught vs, faying: Ou7'- Father, 
 
 A 
 
 244
 
 A Pvayer at the hotire 
 of deatJi, 
 
 lefus Chrift, 
 art the onely 
 
 Lord 
 
 which 
 
 health of all men liu- 
 
 ing, and the euerla- 
 fting life of them which dye in 
 thy faith ; I wretched fmner giue 
 and fubmit my felfe wholly to 
 thy moft bleffed will, being fure 
 that the thing cannot perifh 
 which is committed vnto thy 
 mercy, I moft humbly befeech 
 thee, O Lord, to giue me grace 
 L 5 that 
 
 223 
 
 245
 
 224 A Prayer. 
 
 that I may now willingly leaue 
 this fraile and wicked flefh in 
 hope of the refurre6lion, which 
 in better manner fhall reftore it 
 to me againe, grant me, O Lord 
 God that thou wilt by thy grace 
 make ftrong my foule againft all 
 temptations, and that thou wilt 
 couer and defend me with the 
 buckler of thy mercy againft 
 the affaults of Satan ; I acknow- 
 ledge, that there is in my felfe 
 no hope of faluation ; but all my 
 hope and truft is in thy moft 
 mercifull goodneffe, I haue no 
 no merits nor good workes, 
 which I may alleadge before 
 thee; of fumes and euill works, 
 alas! I fee a great heape, but 
 through thy mercy I truft to be 
 of the number of the to whom 
 
 thou 
 
 246
 
 A Prayer. 225 
 
 thou wilt not impute their fins, 
 but take and impute mee for 
 righteous and iuft, and to be the 
 inheritor of euerlafting glory. 
 Thou, O moft mercifull Lord, 
 wert borne for my fake, thou 
 didft fuffer both hunger and 
 thirft, thou didfl preach, teach, 
 pray, and faft for my fake, thou 
 didft all good workes, and fuffe- 
 redfl mofl grieuous pangs and 
 torments for my fake: and fi- 
 nally, thov gauefl thy moft pre- 
 cious body to dye, and thy blef- 
 fed bloud to be fhed on the 
 croffe for my fake: wherefore 
 moft mercifull Sauiour, let all 
 thefe things profit me, which 
 thou haft freely giuen mee, 
 which haft giuen thy felfe for 
 me, let thy bloud cleanfe and 
 
 wafh 
 
 247
 
 226 A Prayei\ 
 
 wafh away the fpots and foule- 
 neffe of my finnes, let thy righ- 
 teoufneffe hide and couer my 
 vnrighteoufneffe, let the merits 
 of thy bitter fufferings be a fuf- 
 ficient and propitiatory facri- 
 fice, and fatisfa6lion for my 
 fmnes: giue me, O Lord, thy 
 grace, that my faith and beleefe 
 of thy true and grieuous death 
 wauer not in me, but euer be 
 firme and conftant, that the 
 hope of thy mercy & life euer- 
 lafting neuer decay in me, that 
 charitie waxe not cold in me: 
 and finally, that the weakneffe 
 of my flefli be not ouercome 
 with the feare of death; grant 
 me alfo, O moft mercifuU Saui- 
 our, that when death hath fhut 
 vp the eyes of my body, yet the 
 
 eyes 
 
 248
 
 A Prayer. 227 
 
 eyes of my foule may flill be- 
 hold and looke vpon thee, and 
 that when death hath taken a- 
 way the vfe of my tongue 
 and fpeech; yet my heart may 
 cry, and fay vnto thee, O Lord, 
 into thy hands I giue and com- 
 mit my foule, Lord lefus 
 receiue my fpirit, and 
 take mee to thy 
 mercies, A- 
 
 111671. 
 
 249
 
 228 
 
 A Prayer for a Woman in 
 time of her trauaile. 
 
 ^^^^Ighteous & holy Lord 
 God, I doe now finde 
 by experience the fruit 
 of my finne, that I muft trauaile 
 in forrow, and bring forth in 
 paine: and I vnfainedly adore 
 the truth of thy facred Word, 
 as certifying vnto me, that for- 
 row muft be in the Euening: fo 
 comforting me alfo againft the 
 Morning, that a Childe fhall be 
 borne. Willingly I doe defire to 
 
 fubmit 
 
 250
 
 A Prayer. 229 
 
 fubmit my felfe in hope into 
 this thy chaftifement; and to 
 learne the defert of my fmne, 
 horrible in themfekies, that 
 thefe temporall paines, are fore- 
 runners of eternall: and yet by 
 thy mercy may be fo fan6lified 
 vnto me, as not onely to pre- 
 uent eternal vengeance, but alfo 
 prepare for eternall comforts, 
 euen to be Saued by bearing of 
 Children. 
 
 Grant me therefore (gracious 
 Father^) true repentance and 
 pardon for my fmnes paft, that 
 they may not ftand at this time 
 in this my neede betweene mee 
 and thy mercy. Giue mee a 
 comfortable feeling of thy loue 
 in Chrift, which may fweeten 
 all other pangs, though neuer 
 
 fo 
 
 251
 
 230 A Prayer. 
 
 fo violent or extreame : make 
 me flill to lift vp my foule vnto 
 thee, in my greateft agonies, 
 knowing that thou alone muft 
 giue a bleffmg to the ordinary 
 meanes for my fafe deliuerance. 
 Lay no more vpon me then I 
 am able to endure ; & ftrengthen 
 my weake body to the bearing 
 of what forrowfoeuer, by which 
 it fhall feeme good vnto thee to 
 make triall of me. 
 
 Grant me to confider that 
 howfoeuer it be with me, yet I 
 am alwaies as thine hand, whofe 
 mercies faile not, who will be 
 found in the Mount and greateft 
 extremitie, and to whom be- 
 long the iffues of death : fo pre- 
 pare me therefore to death, that 
 I may be fit for life, euen to 
 
 yeeld 
 
 252
 
 A Prayer. 231 
 
 yeeld fruit aliue vnto the world, 
 and to be renewed and enabled 
 to nourifh the fame. And when 
 thou haft fafely giuen mee the 
 expe6led fruit of my wombe, 
 make me with a thankfull heart 
 to confecrate both it and my 
 felfe wholly to thy feruice all 
 the dayes of my life, through 
 lefus Chrifl mine onely Sa- 
 uiour and Redee- 
 mer, Afnen. 
 
 253
 
 -7 1 '■» 
 
 A Thmikfgming after 
 fafe deliuerance. 
 
 louing 
 mercy 
 
 Bleffed for euer be thy 
 
 o^reat and o-lorious 
 
 Name (mofl deere and 
 
 Father) for thy great 
 
 to me moft weake and 
 
 fmfull woman. 
 
 Wonderfull art thou in all 
 thy workes (O Lord) the riches 
 of thy mercies are paft finding 
 out : thou haft plunged me with 
 great affli6lions, and yet thou 
 haft returned and refrefhed me 
 
 agame : 
 
 254
 
 A Prayer, 
 
 againe: thou haft brought me 
 to the feare of the graue, and 
 yet thou haft raifed me vp again 
 to Hfe. O how hafl thou fhew- 
 ed thy power in my weakneffe? 
 How hath thy louing kindneffe 
 preuailed againft my vnworthi- 
 neffe? Thou mighteft for my 
 fmnes haue left me to perifh in 
 mine extremities, but thou haft 
 compaffed me about with ioy- 
 full dehuerance: thou migfhteft 
 haue made my wombe a graue 
 to burie the dead: or in affoor- 
 ding hfe to another, thou migh- 
 teft haue procured my death, 
 but yet thou haft not onely 
 made my wombe a wel-fpring 
 of life, but reftored life vnto 
 me alfo, for the cherifhingf 
 thereof. Marueilous (O LordJ 
 
 are 
 
 233 
 
 255
 
 234 A Prayer. 
 
 are thy workes, infinite are thy 
 mercies, my foule by prefent 
 experience knoweth it well. O 
 my foule praife thou the Lord, 
 and all that is within me praife 
 his holy name. My foule praife 
 thou the Lord, and forget not 
 all his benefits. Thou haft heard 
 my prayers, and looked vpon 
 my forrow, thou haft redeemed 
 my life from death, and healed 
 mine infirmities, and crowned 
 me with thine euerlafting com- 
 paffions. 
 
 O giue me, I humbly pray 
 thee, a thankfull heart, not onely 
 now while the memory & fenfe 
 of thy fauour is frefli before 
 me, but continually euen fo 
 long as I haue any being. 
 
 Grant that I may learne by 
 
 this 
 
 256
 
 A Prayei\ 235 
 
 this liuely euidence of thy pow- 
 er and mercy, for euer hereafter 
 to depend onely on thee. Quic- 
 ken me alfo to all holy duties, 
 that my thankfulneffe may ap- 
 peare in my pure and Chriiiian 
 carriage. 
 
 Make me a kind and carefull 
 mother, willing to vndergoe the 
 paine and trouble of education. 
 Let no niceneffe or curiofitie 
 hinder mee from thofe feruices, 
 to whom both nature and reli- 
 gion hath appointed me : let me 
 alfo be carefull when time re- 
 quireth, to feafon the fruit thou 
 haft giuen me, with the fauing 
 knowledge of thee, & thy deere 
 Son, that my defire may mani- 
 feftly appeare to be fet for the 
 encreafe of thy Kingdome. 
 
 Vouchfafe 
 
 257
 
 236 A Prayer. 
 
 Vouchfafe fo to order my affe- 
 6lions & to bring them in obe- 
 dience vnto thee, that if it fhold 
 be thy pleafure either now or 
 hereafter to take this Infant fro 
 me, I may as wilHngly part with 
 it, as thou freely gaue it me. 
 
 And now (O God) perfect in 
 mee that ftrength which thou 
 haft begun, make me to grow in 
 care to ferue thee faithfully, 
 both in the duties of pietie, and 
 in other bufmeffe of my place 
 and calling, that I may be a 
 comfort to my husband, and 
 example to my neighbours, a 
 grace to my profeffion, and a 
 meanes of glorie to thy Name, 
 through lefus Chrift my Lord 
 and Sauiour, Amen. 
 
 FINIS. 
 
 258
 
 THE 
 
 Common Cals, 
 
 Cryes and Souuds 
 
 of the Bell-man. 
 
 OR 
 
 Diuers Verfes to put 
 
 vs in minde of our 
 
 mortalitie. 
 
 Which may ferue as zvarnings 
 
 to be prepared at all twies 
 
 for the day of our 
 
 death. 
 
 Printed at London for 
 M.S. 1628.
 
 For Chriftmas day. 
 
 "D Emember all that on this movjie, 
 
 ^ ^Our blejfed Saidor Chrijl was borne \ 
 
 Who iffued from a Virgin pttre, 
 
 Our foules fro7n Sathan to/ecure, 
 
 A nd patronife onr feeble fpirit, 
 
 That we through him may heauen inherit. 
 
 For Saint Stephens night. 
 
 '^'^His blefsed time beare in your minde, 
 ^ How that blefi Maidyr Stephen dy- 
 In ivhom was all that good confinde, (ed, 
 That might zvithflefJi and bloud abide: 
 
 M In 
 
 261
 
 The Bel-mans Sounds. 
 
 In do^lrine and example he 
 Taught what to doe, and what to flee: 
 Full of thefpirit he would preach, 
 Againfl opinions falfe and naught, 
 Confute the^n too, and boldly teach 
 What Chrifi himfelfe to him had taught ; 
 For which at lafl he lost his breath, 
 Stond by theflony hearts to death: (end. 
 Let vs then learn by this blest Martyrs 
 To fee otir follies, and our Hues amend. 
 
 For Saint yohns day. 
 
 ^ I ^His m.an the word did boldly teach, 
 ■^ Saiv Christ transformed, and did 
 The glory in that Moimt hefaw; (preach, 
 And by that glo7y flroue to draw, 
 The fonle of man to flnne a thrall, 
 To heauen, to which God fend vs all. 
 
 For 
 
 262
 
 The Bel-mans Sounds. 
 
 For Innocents day. 
 
 ' I '"Hefiuords of W^roAs fertiants tooke 
 -*- Such fweet yong things, as with a look 
 Might make a heart of Marble melt, 
 But they nor grace, nor pittie felt; 
 Some from the cradle, fome atvake. 
 Some fweetly fleeping, fome they take 
 Dandled vpon their mothers lap. 
 Some from, their armes, fome from the pap. 
 
 For New-yeares day. 
 
 A LL you that doe the Bell-man heare, 
 -^^^The firfl day of this hopefull yeare; 
 I doe in loue admonifli you, . 
 To bid your oldfms all adue, 
 
 M 2 And 
 
 263
 
 The Bel-mans Sounds. 
 
 And walke as Gods iti/l Lazu requires, 
 In holy deeds and good dejires, 
 Which if to doe youle doe your de/i, 
 God will in Chrijl forgiue the reji. 
 
 For Saint Daiiids day. 
 
 Am no Welchman, but yet to JJiow 
 The loue I to the Countrey owe, 
 I call this inorniiig, and befeeke 
 Each 7nan prepare him for his Leeke; 
 For as I hearefome men fay, 
 The fi7fl of March is Saint Dauids day; 
 That worthy Britaine, valia^it, wife, 
 Withstood his Countries enemies. 
 And catfed his Souldiers there to choofe 
 Leekes for to knozv them frotn his foes; 
 Who brauely fought, and conquest won, 
 Andfo the custome first begun. 
 
 Then 
 
 264
 
 The Bel mans Sounds. 
 
 Then weare your Leeks, and doe notJJiame 
 
 To tnemoi'ize yo7ii' luorthies name: 
 
 So noble Britaines all adew, 
 
 Lone Jim King Charles, y^r he loues yoti. 
 
 For the 5. of Nouernb. 
 
 A Wake ViX\X.2AVL(^'s> fubien,s 
 ■^^^ zvith one accord, 
 Extoll and praife, 
 
 and inagnijie the Lord, 
 Humble your hearts, 
 
 and with deuotion fing 
 Praifes of thanks to God 
 
 for onr mojl gracious King; 
 This was the nigJU 
 
 when in a darkfo^ne Cell, 
 Treafon was found in earth 
 
 it hatcht in hell; 
 
 M X And 
 
 26=
 
 The Bel-mans Sounds. 
 
 And had it tooke effe^, 
 
 what would atiail'd oiir/orrow, 
 The ti^aine beijiz iciid 
 
 to hatce bloiune vs vp dtlunorroiv? 
 Yet God our guide 
 
 rcueard the danmed plot, 
 And they themfelues dejlroyd, 
 
 and zve zvere not. 
 Then let vs not forget 
 
 him thankes to render, 
 That hath pi'eferu^'d and kept 
 
 onr faiths defender. 
 
 For Good Fry day. 
 
 \LL yon that now in bed doe lye, 
 -^^^Know, lefts Chrift this night did dye, 
 Ourfonles mofl finfill for tofazie, 
 That we eternal I life might hatce; 
 
 His 
 
 266
 
 The Bel-mans Sounds. 
 
 His w hips, his gr ones Jiis crown ofthoi''nes. 
 Would make vs weepe, lament, andmo2trn. 
 
 For Sunday. 
 
 T Et labour pajffe, let prayer be 
 ^ — ' TJiis day the chiefejl luorke for thee, 
 Thy felfc andferuants viore and lej/e, 
 This day niuji let all labour pajfe. 
 
 All hale to yon thatjleepe and rest; 
 Repent, awake, your Jlnnes detest, 
 Call to yo2ir 7ninde the day of doom e. 
 For then our Sauiour Christ will come, 
 Accompt to hatie he hath decided. 
 Of euery thought, word, zuorke, and deede: 
 And as lue hatie our times here pcfi, 
 SofJiall our ludgements be at last. 
 
 A 4 As 
 
 267
 
 The Bel-mans Sounds. 
 
 A kS darkefotne nigJit 
 ■'^^^ vnto thy thoiights prefent, 
 What 'tis to zvant 
 
 the dayes bjnght Element, 
 So let thy foiile defcend 
 
 through cojitemplation, 
 Where vtter darknej/e keepcs 
 
 her habitatio7i, 
 Where endlejfe, eafelejjfe 
 
 pines re7nedileJJ'e 
 Attend to torttu^e finnes 
 
 curjl wilfnlnejje: 
 O then remember 
 
 whiljl thon yet hajl time 
 To call for mercy for 
 
 each forepast crime; 
 And with good Dauid 
 
 wafJi thy bed with teares, 
 
 That 
 
 268
 
 The Bel-mans Sounds. 
 
 That fo repentance may 
 
 fubdue hels f cares : 
 Then Jim II thy fou le 
 
 more purer then the Swine, 
 loy as a Gyant 
 
 her bcjl race to runne, 
 And in vnfpotted robes 
 
 herfelfe addrejfe 
 To meet her Lord 
 
 that Sonne of rightcoiifneJJ'e, 
 To whom with God the Father 
 
 and the Spirit 
 Be all due praife, 
 
 where all true ioyes inherit. 
 
 " I ^He Behnan like the zvakefull 
 
 -■" morning Cocke, 
 Doth warne you to be vigilant 
 and zvi/e: 
 
 M 5 Looke 
 
 269
 
 The Bel-mans Sound; 
 
 Looke to yo2ir fire^ your candle 
 
 a7td your locke, 
 Preuent zvhaf may throtigh 
 
 negligence ari/e; 
 So may yott/leepe zvith peace 
 
 and ivakc zuit/i toy, 
 And no inifchances Jliall 
 
 yourftatc annoy. 
 
 \ZO21r beds compare vnto the graue, 
 
 -*- Then thinkc zuhat fepulcher yoti hanc. 
 For though yon lay you dozvne tojleepe, 
 The Bclman zuakes your peace to keepe, 
 And nightly zualkes the round about. 
 To fee if fire and light be out; 
 Btitzjuhen themor7ie {dayes light) appear es 
 Be you as ready for yotir prayers: 
 So fJiall your labours thidite each day. 
 That you the Belman well may pay. 
 
 Like 
 
 2,70
 
 The Bel-mans Sounds. 
 
 T ike to t/ic Seaman is our life, 
 -*— ^ Tojl by the zvaucs offinfitlljlrife, 
 Finding no gi'ound whereon tojland, 
 Vncertaine death isjlill at hand: 
 If that our Hues fo vainlefse be, 
 Then all the world is vanitie. 
 
 '^Y^Hofe that Hue in wrath and ire, 
 -*- And goe to rest in any finne, 
 They are zvorfe vnto their houfe the fire, 
 Or violent theeues that woidd breake in. 
 Thenfeeke toflmn with all your ndght, 
 That Hidras head, that monflrous fai; 
 That God may blcffe your goods abroad, 
 Afid eke alfo your felucs within. 
 
 Sleepe 
 
 271
 
 The Bel-mans Sounds. 
 
 Q^Leepe on in peace, yet ivaking be, 
 "^ And dread his poivcrfull Maiestie, 
 Who can tranjlate the irke/ome night, 
 Fro77i darknejje to that glortotts light, 
 Whofe radient beames ivJien once they 7dfc, 
 With winged /peed the darkneffeflyes. 
 
 ' I ^Hoti God that art 02ir helpe at hand, 
 -^ Pre/erue and kecpe o2L7' King <jf land 
 Freni forj^aigne and doiJiesticke foes, 
 Snch as the word and truth depo/e-, 
 A fid ener pro/per tho/e of pit tie, 
 That lone the peace of this onr Citie. 
 
 A 
 
 Wake from fleepe, awake frotn fin. 
 With voycc and heai^t to call 07i hi77z, 
 
 Who 
 
 272
 
 The Bel-mans Sounds. 
 
 Who from aboue pleaf d to defccnd, 
 From Sathans malice to defend 
 Our forfeit foulcs, to that rich grace 
 Where we viayflill behold his face. 
 
 T Et vs repare and God implore, 
 -'-^ That heiiceforth ive tranfgrcs 7to mon 
 And that our ioy be at this tide, 
 That we in him be fatisfidc; 
 ThenfJiall we all for his deare fake, 
 Be blefi afleepe, be blefl azvakc. 
 
 QlJ^th neither men nor Angels knozv, 
 "^ When as the dreadful trump JJial blozu, 
 Nor luhen our Sauiorir CJirifl fhall come 
 To giue the zvorld a wofull doome\ 
 Thinke then but what a cafe you're in, 
 Thatfleepe in vnrepe^ited finne : 
 
 O 
 
 273
 
 The Bel-mans Sounds. 
 
 O wake, O wake, O watch and pray, 
 And t/dnke vpon this dreadfull day. 
 
 ^^Leepe 7tot fo fotind, rest not feciLve, 
 '^ Marke well my words, of this befure 
 The waking Virgins paji the gate, 
 When thofe that Jlept came all to late: 
 Wherefore be watchfidl in your center, 
 That you may with the Bridegrome enter. 
 
 T F wicked impes luake day and night, 
 -^ A7id keepe their candle alwayes light, 
 And all their skill a7td praSlife bend, 
 To bring their damned plots to end; 
 Let vs not fleepe, but laud his skill, 
 That frustrates all their proie^s flill. 
 
 The 
 
 274
 
 The Bel-mans Sounds. 
 
 ^ I ^He night zvell/pcnt, 
 
 -^ the day drazves nigJi, 
 A zvake from Jlecpc 
 andjiime defie, 
 All JluggiJJi Jloath expel I azaay, 
 Hatie still in ininde the iitdgement day, 
 When deadJJiall rife at trumpets call, 
 The graiies fJiall open zuide zuith all. 
 
 A, Rife from finne, 
 •'^^- azvake from fleepe, 
 The ea.rth doth mozirne, 
 The heauens zveepe; 
 The zvinds and Seas diflempered bin, 
 
 And all by reafon of majts fin : 
 Wherefore arife, lay fleepe afide, 
 And call on God to be your gtdde, 
 
 From 
 
 275
 
 The Bel-mans Sounds. 
 
 From raging /word and arrowes flight , 
 And from the t err ours of the nigJU; 
 From fires flame, frojn flu a ndforroiv, 
 God bleffc you all, andfo good morrow. 
 
 A ZZ you which in your beds doe lye, 
 -^^^ Vnto the Lord ye ought to cry, 
 That he would pardon all your flnnes', 
 And thus the Belma^is prayer begins; 
 Lordgiue vs grace ourfinful life to mend, 
 And at the lafl to fend a ioyfull end: 
 Hatdng put out your flre and your light, 
 For to conchide, I bid yott all good night 
 
 A /r Ans life is like a warfare 
 -^^ ^ on the earth, 
 Whofe time is fpent luith 
 troubles, toyles and cares. 
 
 Subieft 
 
 276
 
 The Bel-mans Sounds. 
 
 StcbieH. to all temptations 
 
 from his birth : 
 In woe he Hues a7id dyes 
 
 at vnazuares, 
 The fiirejl fignc trtie 
 
 fortitude to f how, 
 Is in his life all 
 
 vice to ouerthrow. 
 
 Harke, O harke my Maflers all, 
 To yo7ir poore feruants cry and call: 
 And knoiu all yo7t that lye at eafe, 
 That our great God may if he pleafe, 
 Depriuc yoii of your vitall breath : 
 Thenflceping, thinke yourfleep is death. 
 
 T £t true repentance cleanfe your fin, 
 -" — ^And then your foules comcnd to him, 
 
 That 
 
 277
 
 The Bel-mans Sounds. 
 
 That by Ids death hath raifd and cztrd 
 The dead, the blinde, and them ajfured 
 To glue to them eternall rejl, 
 To Hue in heaueri among the blejl. 
 
 Co7tfeJjfe thy Jinnes to God on hie, 
 Who pardons Jinners when they cry ; 
 Bewray thy faults to him i^i time, 
 Who zvill in Christ forgine thy cri^ne. 
 
 T T E that on the crojfe hath dyed, 
 ^ ^ And for our fmnes was crucified, 
 Be you euer ble/i in him, 
 And clca?ic remitted from your finne: 
 Be it granted as I haue praid, 
 A7idfo the Belman resteth paid. 
 
 All 
 
 278
 
 The Bel-mans Sounds. 
 
 A ZZ. yoiL that in bed doe lye, 
 -^^^Harken ivelL to zvhat I cry, 
 Lcaue ofyourjimies, repentance crane, 
 It is the onely way your foules tofaue. 
 
 13 Epent in time zvkile ye haue breath, 
 ^ ^Rcpentace conimeth not after death : 
 He therefore that will line for aye, 
 Mnfl leaue his finnes, and to God pray. 
 
 f^\ Gracious God and bleffed, 
 ^-^ Preferne all ye that be in bed. 
 So that your quiet refl may take, 
 Vntill the morning that yee wake: 
 Then may ye all with praifes fing. 
 To thee O God our heauenly King. 
 
 Re7nem- 
 
 279
 
 The Bel-mans Sounds. 
 
 T3 Emember man thou art but dttst, 
 ^^ There is none aline bztt dye he vniji, 
 To day a ma?i, to morrow none, 
 Sofoone our life is past and gone. 
 Mans life is like a ivithered flower. 
 Aline and dead all in an houre, 
 Learic of thy fins therefore in time, 
 And Chrifl will rid thee from thy crime. 
 
 f~\ Mart all man that is made of dnfl, 
 ^^ In zuorldly riches put not thy trtf. 
 Remember hoiv thy time doth pafse, 
 Enen like thefa^id that from the Glaffe, 
 Hath fpent the time and there remaines, 
 Neuer canst thou call that time againe. 
 
 Sicke 
 
 2S0
 
 The Bel-mans Sounds, 
 
 Q^/c/ce men complaine they cannot Jleepe, 
 *^ The Bel-7nan fuch a noifc doth keepe\ 
 Others that doe win at play, 
 Sates he too foone proclaimes the day: 
 Yet to the ficke that drawes JJiort ' breath, 
 It puts them in the minde of death ; 
 Andfaies the gamster makes goodjiakc, 
 If he for heauenfo long would wake; 
 And all this while like filly zuorme, 
 He doth his office but per forme: 
 Then if his duety breed difeafe, 
 Heele go to bed and none difpleafc. 
 
 FINIS. 
 
 281
 
 The Famous Hiftory 
 
 of GvY Earle of Warwicke. 
 By S A M V E L Rowlands. 
 
 LONDON, 
 
 Printed for Edward Breivjlev at the Sign of the Crane in St. Pauls 
 
 Churchyard. 1682.
 
 TO TH E 
 
 RIGHT HONOURABLE 
 
 Philip Earl of Mountgomery, Lord 
 
 Herbert of Skerland, and of the moft 
 
 Noble Order of the Garter. Knisfht. 
 
 Right worthily Enobled and 
 truly H onourable LORD! 
 vouchfafe of your generous courtefie, 
 (to which all men yield a general ap- 
 plaud) to accept this flight and weak 
 Poem, derived from a ftrong and 
 mighty fubjec^l; (to wit) Great GVY 
 of Warwick (our famous Country 
 man) whofe valor hath bin the wor- 
 lds wonder and his admirable a6ls of 
 Chivalry, terrors and daunting fears 
 of all the oppofites of himfelf and 
 this Kingdome: the negle6l- 
 
 A 2 ing
 
 The Rpijlle Dedicatory. 
 ing of whofe worthy Memory, hath 
 induced my more willing than able 
 Mufe, to revive the deeds of this duft- 
 confumed Champion; upon whofe 
 honourable Combat, King Athelfto7ie 
 ventur'd the whole Realm oi England. 
 Difdain not therefore (moft worthful 
 and precious fpirit) in the true affa- 
 bility of your efteemed Virtues, to 
 vouchfafe the view of thefe Artlefs 
 Lines, which in the filence of greater 
 fufficiences, ferve only to keep Va- 
 lour from Oblivious deftru(?tion. 
 
 Moji Immbly devoted 
 to your Honors virtues, 
 Samuel Rowlands. 
 
 TO
 
 To the Noble Englijli Nation. 
 
 REnowned Englifh ! whom our Lines invite, 
 To vieiv the A6ls ^Warwick 's worthy Knight; 
 
 Whofe deeds of old, zvrit zvith an ancient Pen, 
 Have 7101V ont %vorn the memories of men, 
 Mojl flrange in this fame Poet-plenty-age : 
 
 When Epigrams and Satyrs biting, rage : 
 
 WJiere Paper is employed every day. 
 
 To carry Verfe about the Toivn for pay, 
 
 That Stories flwuld intomUd with Worthies lie, 
 And Fajne, through Age extincl, obfcurely die, 
 Deign to accept zvhat recreation hojirs 
 Have fpent upon this Countrey-vian of ours: 
 Itfeems too far unkind, that in tJiefe days, 
 
 We toylfo much in other Nations praife, 
 
 That ive negleSl tJie famoufing of our own. 
 
 Which over-matchful rmto them were known. 
 
 England hath bredfuch men of Valour try'd, 
 
 \ Could match all Kifigdoms in the %vorld befide. 
 
 Take Jiere a veizo of kfiighthoods ancient face, 
 His bruifed Armour, and his bloody Cafe: 
 His broken Launce, gapt Faulchion, batter' d Shield, 
 His valiant Combates with his Foes in Field. 
 ,The wounds and fear rs infculpt itpon hisflefh, 
 His mortal fights renewed each day afreJJi, 
 His reafons that did animate to A rms. 
 His freeing tender Ladies from theis harms; 
 His Jiacked Target, and Ids fplinter' d spear 
 His killing Serpents, favage Bore, and bear. 
 
 A3 
 
 Then
 
 The Epiftle 
 
 TJieu look 0)1 fome, in Ages fince benigJUed, 
 Who never zvere ivith martial deeds delighted: 
 That are no kin to them ivhich went of old 
 In Iron Armour, tJiefe are Kniglits in Gold: 
 ' And yon JJiall fee that one doth wear the name, 
 When tin others actions merits for the fame. 
 The fame for merit zvas renowned GUY, 
 . A Champion that his fame zvith blood did buy; 
 Ajid never held his life in Cozuard fear, 
 But ventured it at point of Szvord and Spear: 
 He was a Prodigal of life and limb, 
 And bad all welcome, came to fight with him : 
 Were it a man, like to Gogmagog ; 
 Or Cerberus, that triple headed Dog, 
 Or he that often did Olympus climb. 
 And zvas the only Club man of his time. 
 Great Hercules if he had breath' d on ground. 
 When Englifli Guy of Warwick liv'd renozvn'd, 
 There zvould have been a Combat 'tzvixt them tzvo, 
 To try what proud Alcibes/i?;r^ could do; 
 Or He6lor, wJiofe applaud the zu or Id doth knozv, 
 Or fierce Achilles /rrt'r/)// to his Foe. 
 Had all thefe livd together in an Age, 
 They had been Combatants, the Earth their Stage. 
 Kind Engliih, yield unto your Countrey-man 
 As gentle entertainment as you can, 
 TJiougJi lie lye quiet now transformed to dufi 
 Sleeping in death as other mortals mufl: 
 With your life-giving breath, revive his Fame, 
 That hath deferv'd an honourable Name. 
 And having viezv'd his Aclions, zvifJi zvith me. 
 That all the Knights we have, were fuch as he. 
 
 S. R.
 
 [ 
 
 To the Honourable Ladies of 
 England. 
 
 LAdies in elder times your fex did need 
 Knight-hoods true valour to defend your 
 Of admirable a6lions we do read, (rights, 
 
 Have been atchiev'd in cruell bloody fights. 
 Fell ugly Serpents were deftroy'd and flaine, 
 Strange Monfters mangled, Giants hew'd in twaine. 
 
 But who deferv'd more in fuch enterprize, 
 Then worthy Englifli, bred where we are borne? 
 Such as did eafe and idleneffe defpife: 
 For Armour more than filke by them was Avorne. 
 Thefe were the Champions that for Ladies good, 
 Would bleed, as long as they had drops of blood. 
 
 Such was Sir Guy, whofe Story here we tell. 
 Valours renowned honourable man: 
 He lov'd your kinde in heart exceeding well, 
 How can you chufe but love his Legend then.-* 
 Beftow the reading of it, if you pleafe, 
 'Gainft melancholly, the fame dull difeafe. 
 
 SAM. ROWLANDS. 
 
 Th(
 
 The Argument. 
 
 UY oi Warzuick (Son to Earle Roha^ids 
 Steward) in blooming youth of Natures 
 fpring, fell in love with the Earles faire 
 Daughter Phelice, whofe difdaining of him, 
 in that he was but a meane Gentleman, and 
 not by birth anfwerable to her honourable eftate, did affli6l 
 his tormented minde with much diftreffed paffions, till in 
 a vifion Cupid prefents her with the pi6lure of Mars, en- 
 joyning her to love Guy, as the admired Champion of 
 Chrifhendom : Vpon this flie yeeldeth affe6lion, on condi- 
 tion of Adventures, which to atchieve, he departs into 
 France, and fhortly returnes with Trophees of vi6lory, 
 and prizes of honour: But Phelice not fatisfied there- 
 with, he leaves England again, performing in forraigne 
 Countries wonderfull a6ls: then returning, marries his 
 Love, whom after forty dayes be leaves, departing on Pil- 
 grimage to the holy Land, efTfe6ling in that journey many 
 flrange things : Then fuppofed to be dead ; comes back 
 difguifed and out-worne to memory, and fights a Combate 
 for King Atheljione, killed Colbrond the Gyant of Den- 
 marke, freeing thereby the Kingdome from invafions. 
 After that, lives obfcurely in a Cave, and comes for Almes 
 to his own Caftle, not revealing himfelf till the houre of 
 his death, and then he fent his Lady a ring, by which to- 
 ken llie knew her husband, and came moft wofully to clofe 
 up his eyes, dying her felf fliortly after him, for very grief 
 and extreme forrow. 
 
 The]
 
 THE 
 
 FAMOUS HISTORY 
 
 OF 
 
 Guy Earlof^^ivwicV. 
 
 -t— In Natures green nnmelloived years ^ 
 -^ Cupid tormentetJi Guy; ^ 
 
 ^. IntJirals his heart to Phselice love, ^i 
 
 —H^ HI — 
 
 ^ 4j/ ^(^><f? ^ the eye. ^ 
 
 CANTO I. 
 
 WHen dreadful Mars in Armor every day 
 Lov'd ftately Jmio and Bellonia bed, 
 Before he knew the Court where Venus lay, 
 For then he took himfelf to eafe and reft; 
 When all his Thoughts unto the proof were fteel'd, 
 And all his A6lions manag'd in the field. 
 A Knight of his (a worthy EngliJJt man) 
 That went like him, clad in an Iron Coat, 
 In Warivick, with the worlds applaud began 
 To be a man of admirable note: 
 Such was the Valour he afcended by. 
 That Pagans trembled at the name of Guy. 
 This man compos'd of courage, full of fprite, 
 Of hard adventures, and of great defigns. 
 To fight with Giants took a chief delight. 
 Or fearch fome Cave that Monfter undermines ; 
 
 B Meet
 
 The Famous Hijlory 
 
 Meet with a Boar to make a bloody fray, 
 Or combat with a Dragon by the way. 
 Yet ere he entertain'd his Love to Arms, 
 He grew devoted to the Queen of Love, 
 Attempting Beauties Fort with fierce Alarms, 
 The vi6lory of fuch a prize to prove. 
 As elder times before could ne're injoy; 
 A fweeter face than loft old Priam Troy. 
 Fair Phcelicc, equal match to Cupid's Mother : 
 A curious creature, and the Kingdoms pride: 
 All fpacious Britain had not fuch another, 
 For glorious beauty, and good parts befide : 
 'Twixt her and Vulcan's wife no odds were known, 
 But Venus had a Mole, and flie had none. 
 For moft dire6lly flie had Venus hair, 
 The fame high fore-head, and attractive eye : 
 ^^ Her cheeks of Rofes mixt with Lillies fair; 
 'if' The very lips of perfe6l Coral-dye: 
 
 Ivory teeth, a dainty rifing chin, 
 A foft touch, pleafmg, fmooth, and filken skin. 
 With all perfections made a peerlefs Creature 
 From head to foot, fhe had them every one: 
 Mirrour fhe was of Comelinefs and feature 
 An EngliJJi Phsenix, fupreme fair alone : 
 Whom gazing peoples cenfures thus would grace, 
 Beauty lives no where but in Phcslice face: 
 In PhcBlice face (this obje6t of Guy's fight) 
 Where looks of love, and glances of difdain. 
 From thence fometimes his eyes attra6l delight, 
 From thence anon his heart depriveth pain. 
 One while fweet fmiles do give encouragement, 
 Another time ftern looks Avork difcontent. 
 Thus on Love's Seas, toft by the ftorms of terrour, 
 'Twixt prefent calm, and fudden furious blaft ; 
 Refolving love, yet finding love in error. 
 In freedom chain'd, in liberty bound faft; 
 He fighs that fortune doth fo ftrangely deal, 
 To give a wound that Beauty will not heal ; 
 
 That
 
 of Guy Earlo/VsldLV'^'xcV. 
 
 That Beauty will not heal (quoth he) fond man. 
 Thou wrong'ft thy fclf, and thy fair Goddcfs too; 
 By looks to know a womans heart who can? 
 And look on her is only all I do: 
 rie take another courfe more refolute, 
 To fpeak, to write my honefl meaning fuit. 
 But if I fhould be fo, what hope have I 
 That fhe will hear my words, or read my lines 
 She is Earl Roband's heir, and born too high 
 To condefcend unto my poor defigns: 
 Though I a Gentleman by birth am known, 
 Earldoms I want, and Lordfhips I have none: 
 
 ! women are ambitious out of meafure. 
 They mount aloft upon the wings of pride; 
 And often match more for this worldly Treafure, 
 Than any loving caufe on earth befide ; 
 
 Which makes fome wifli rather there were no gold, 
 Than love for it fliould bafe be bought and fold. 
 If fuch fhe be (as not be fuch is rare) 
 What will my words, or fighs, or tears prevail? 
 
 1 enter then a Labyrinth of care. 
 
 And flrive againft both wind and tide to fail: 
 
 A reftlefs ftone with SifypJuis I roul, 
 
 And heap continual torments on my foul. 
 
 Then I attempt to fly with waxen wings, 
 
 Where Phcebiis Chariot burns in brighteft flame ; 
 
 And fhall be cenfur'd, that in childifh thing.s, 
 
 As Love, I have begot eternal fhame : 
 
 Reje6led and defpis'd, in bafe efteem 
 
 To th' envious world, I fliall no better feem. 
 
 But ceafe, Loves coward, banifli thoughts of fear, 
 
 Be refolute, and good fuccefs attend thee; 
 
 Ph(2lice of force a loving heart muft bear; 
 
 If he that fhoots love-darts of gold befriend thee, 
 
 And by no reafon he can be thy foe, 
 
 Becaufe thou lov'ft his mothers pi6lurc fo. 
 
 I am refolv'd : Go on to PIkeHcc Bower, 
 
 And from as true a heart as flefli can yield, 
 
 B 2 Intreat 
 

 
 The Fa7nous Hijlory 
 
 Intreae her hear me in a bleffed hour; 
 
 And with kind pity all my forrows fhield ; 
 
 To look upon me with remorfe of mind, 
 
 That holds my lift as her love is inclind. 
 
 This faid, to Warwick Caftle he repairs, 
 
 Where the rich Jewel of his heart remain'd ; 
 
 Earl Robamd bids him welcome, and prepaers 
 
 With hunting-fports to have him entertain'd : 
 
 But thereunto unwiUing ear he lends, 
 
 And fudden ficknefs for excufe pretends. 
 
 The Earl much grieved at this alteration, 
 
 Sent his phyfician for to do him good ; 
 
 Who told Guy, that his only prefervation, 
 
 Confifted in the prefent letting blood : 
 
 And that his body in diflemperature, 
 
 Was difficult and very hard to cure. 
 
 Do6lor (quoth Gu}') 'tis true I know as much, 
 
 I find my felf to be exceeding ill; 
 
 But there's a flower, which if I might but touch, 
 
 Would heal me better than thy phyficks fkill : 
 
 'Tis called by a pretty pleafmg name. 
 
 And Phcslix foundeth fomewhat near the fame. 
 
 Quoth the Phyfician, Sir, I know it not. 
 
 Nor in the Herbal read of fuch a flower: 
 
 Yet in this Caftle it is to be got; 
 
 Said Guy, it grows not far from yonder Tower. 
 
 I'le find it out my felf, Do6lor refrain, 
 
 Galen ne're had the Art to cure my pain. 
 
 Left in this paffion to converfe with moan, 
 
 As in a window he did fighing lye. 
 
 In a delightful Garden all alone, 
 
 The Emp'refs of his thoughts he did efpy; 
 
 Which to his foul did much rejoycing bring, 
 
 Fear was depos'd, and Hope was Crowned King. 
 
 Now is the time (quoth he) fair Fortunes Sun 
 
 Shines favourable on my gloomy cares : 
 
 Now may I end the grief that love begun, 
 
 And boldly ask good hap, how well fhe fares : 
 
 Now 
 
 lO
 
 of Guy Earl of Warwick. 
 
 Now will I enter into yonder lliade, 
 
 To court the worlds admired Beauteous Maid. 
 
 Phcelice I come, affift me {Ctipid) now, 
 
 Prepare an Arrow ready for thy bow: 
 
 I never went a wooing: Teach me how 
 
 Good a6lion (with good fpeech) I may bcftow : 
 
 But above all things, gentle Cupid move her, 
 
 That fhe believe me, when I fwear I love her. 
 
 With fpeed unto the Garden then he goes, 
 
 Where one oi Phcelice Damfels let him in; 
 
 And in a curious Arbour of repofe, 
 
 Finds CytJierea with her filver skin : 
 
 Whom he falutes with Grace and Majefty. 
 
 Beholding her with Love's inchanting eye. 
 
 Faireft (quoth he) of all, the works in Nature, 
 
 Whofe Equal never breath'd this common air, 
 
 More wonderful than Earth can yield a creature, 
 
 For every part belonging unto fair; 
 
 Immortal Creature of Coeleftial frame. 
 
 Eternal honour ftill attend thy Name 
 
 I come to thee about the like poor fuit, 
 
 That once Leander came to Hero with, 
 
 Hoping thereby to reap more lovely fruit 
 
 Than Mars attain'd when he deceiv'd the fmith. 
 
 'Tis only Love that I with heart prefent; 
 
 'Tis only Love muft give my foul content. 
 
 Incline (fweet Lady) to my humble motion; 
 
 Compaffionte the grief that I endure. 
 
 Regard my life that refts at thy devotion, 
 
 With pity take my dying heart in cure : 
 
 O let it not in groaning torment fwell! 
 
 And break in twain, becaufe it loves thee well. 
 
 Great Princes love thee, this I knew before, 
 
 And deeds of honour for thy Name have done; 
 
 But neither King nor Prince can love thee more 
 
 Than doth poor Guy, thy Fathers Stewards Son ; 
 
 His love to thee is fo ineftimable. 
 
 To countervail it all, they are not able. 
 
 Phculice 
 
 II
 
 The Famous Hi/lory 
 
 Phczlice thus interrupts his Proteftation : 
 No more of Love, ceafe gentle Youth (quoth flie) 
 I have a mind fram'd of another fafliion, 
 Virginity fliall Hve and die with me: 
 Love is compos'd of idlenefs and play, 
 And leadeth unto vain delights that flray: 
 Befides it ill befeems thee, be fo bold, 
 Inferiour and unfit for my degree; 
 And if unto my Father this was told, 
 I knov/ it would procure reproof to thee : 
 That proverb in this point might make thee wife, 
 That Princely Eagles /corn the Catching Flies: 
 And with this anfwer flie departed thence, 
 Leaving poor Guy more vexed than before : 
 For now in deep defpair of recompence. 
 He never doth expe6l Loves comfort more ; 
 But unto forrow, fighs and tears doth give, 
 Wifhi ng each day the laft he had to live. 
 
 7^ Guy in Jlrange paffions for his Love, — ♦- 
 
 ■r— great iormcnts doth endure: ^cs 
 
 ^ Till Yh^YxcQjees a Vifion, and ^ 
 
 ^ Doth yield her Patient cure. ^ 
 
 CANTO I L 
 
 With tired thoughts remains this woful wight, 
 Diftra6led in his melancholy mind, 
 Partaking nothing that contains delight. 
 All things are harfli, diftaftful, out of kind : 
 PhcElice denies him Love; whofe found of breath, 
 Is like the Judge that dooms a man to death: 
 Like to Orejles in his frantick fits. 
 He tare the golden treffes from his head ; 
 Or mad Orlando quite deprived of wits, 
 From whom the ufe of fenfe and reafon fled ; 
 
 So 
 
 12
 
 of Guy Earl of Warwick. 
 
 So fares it with this Love-tormented man, 
 
 Whofe raging thoughts into difordcrs ran. 
 
 Society he fliims, and keeps alone, 
 
 Accufing Defhiny, and curfmg Beauty \ 
 
 He hates himfelf, and is a friend to none, 
 
 Beyond the limits of all love and duty. 
 
 Venus (quoth he) how are thy Laws forgot, 
 
 Thus to affli6l him that offends thee not? 
 
 What is the caufe I am rejected thus.-* 
 
 Who interrupts my love to Beauties mirror? 
 
 I'le drag him hence to roaring Erebus, 
 
 There to be plunged in eternal terror. 
 
 I'le to Joves Court, and there with fliouts and cries; 
 
 Make fuch a clamour as fhall rent the skies. 
 
 Shall I be cozen'd as Orpheus was? 
 
 Affift me Tliefeus to revenge this wrong. 
 
 Where's Radainant, that Justice cannot pafs; 
 
 Etiridice is fold even for a fong: 
 
 Fiends, Furies, Goblins, Hidra's, for a fall, 
 
 I am prepar'd to manage with you all. 
 
 rie mount upon the back of Pegafus, 
 
 And in bright Phccbus flames my felf will wrap ; 
 
 Then will I tumble windy Bolus 
 
 To fleep in Thetis watery cryftal lap: 
 
 From thence I'le pofi: unto the Torrid Zoue, 
 
 To find which way fair Phcslice Love is gone : 
 
 Jafo7i had luck to win the golden fleece; 
 
 I like the skin, but for the horns I care not; 
 
 Fair Helleii was a waggifli v/ench of Greece: 
 
 Bold Mars will venture, bafliful Venus cares not. 
 
 Truft a fair face! Not I, let him that lift; 
 
 What Hercules without a Club in's fiffc? 
 
 Thus for a time his Senfes were deprived, 
 
 Being left by love as blind as Cupid's eyes ; 
 
 Till Reafon to perfeflions ftate revived. 
 
 And extream paffions ceafe to Tyrannize: 
 
 For in a Vifion Phcslice did defcry 
 
 The power of Love, and yields her heart to Guy : 
 
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 The Famous Hiftory 
 
 Fair Phaelice in a Vijion 
 Entertains the love of Guy; 
 Injoyning him adventures Jirange, 
 His manly foce to try 
 
 By Morphosiis poffeft of quiet fleep, 
 In dead of night, when Vifions do appear, 
 The heart-tormentor, he that pierceh deep, 
 And maketh Lovers buy their bargain dear, 
 
 Sends 
 
 H
 
 of Guy Earl of Warwick. 
 
 Sends from his bow a fhaft with golden head, 
 
 And wounded PJicelice in her Maiden-bed. 
 
 Before her he prefents a Martial wight, 
 
 Clad all in Armour for Encounters fit; 
 
 And fays, Siveet Virgin, love this man of might. 
 
 Give hint the heart, for he doth merit it; 
 
 For valour, courage, comely fJiape and limb, 
 
 The world hath not a Champion like to him. 
 
 Great honour (Lady) thou fhalt gain thereby, 
 
 T' adorn thy noble and renowned birth ; 
 
 He fhall afpirc unto fuch Majefty. 
 
 His Name fliall be a terror on the Earth. 
 
 He fhall become a Champion unto Kings, 
 
 And by the Sword perform admired things. 
 
 Be not ambitious that thou art high-born ; 
 
 Be not difdainful of a mean Eftate; 
 
 Be not defiled with the brand of fcorn ; 
 
 Be not too proud that thou art Beauties mate : 
 
 For t'is in vain to ftrive againft my boAv; 
 
 If I fay, Love, it muft and fhall be fo. 
 
 Fix not thy thoughts vainly on worldly wealth, 
 
 (Coyn fhould not be foundation unto Love) 
 
 Corrupted hearts it draws away by ftealth; 
 
 Thefe Money-matches cannot happy prove: 
 
 For as the goods of Fortune do decay, 
 
 So love, which they beget, confumes away. 
 
 I know how Phitds golden Treafure fways, 
 
 By devillifh and accurfed falfe illufion : 
 
 I know how Womens humours now a-days, 
 
 Run after Riches to their own confufion ; 
 
 I fee the pleafant with moft abje6l life, 
 
 With Gold enough can buy a dainty Wife. 
 
 But Phcslice, if thou knew' ft as much as I, 
 
 How bafe the Gods efteem of fuch abufes, 
 
 When Beauty fells, and Riches comes to buy, 
 
 Which are not made for one another's ufes ; 
 
 Thou wouldeft fcorn that Maidens fhould be fold 
 
 As Cattel are, for Silver and for Gold. 
 
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 The Famo^Ls Hijlory 
 
 Love muft be fimple, harmlefs, pure and plain, 
 And take original from true afife6lion ; 
 It muft reciprocal return again, 
 Or elfe it doth difcover imperfe6tion ; 
 Love's inward thoughts concur in outward deeds. 
 Such as from loyalty and truth proceeds; 
 Thy Lover comes not for advancement to thee ; 
 In that thy Father is a worthy Earl ; 
 It is not Dowry that can caufe him woo thee ; 
 Hadft thou the Arabian Gold, or Ittdian Pearl. 
 But as great Jupiter to Leda came 
 For a fweet Face, his purpofe is the fame. 
 Therefore fweet Virgin ufe him kindly well, 
 : Make much of Guy, embrace him for thine own ; 
 ! Afford him Love room in thy heart to dwell ; 
 Let him no longer live in penfive moan: 
 But the next time thou doft behold his face, 
 Give him encouragement, with kind embrace : 
 And with that word {imbrace) he fliot, and hit 
 The very Center of her tender heart; 
 Feeling the wound, fhe ftarts, awak'd with it. 
 Being taught thereby to pity Lovers fmart, 
 For Cupid drew his Arrov/ to the head, 
 Becaufe he would be fure fhe fliould be fped. 
 With that file fetch'd a figh, a grievous one. 
 And from her eyes a fhow'r of Tears did fall. 
 Where is (quoth flie) the gentle Love-God gone, 
 Whofe power I find is powerful over all.'* 
 Oh! call him back, my fault I do confefs, 
 I have in Love been too too pitilefs. 
 Sweet Boy, follicite for me to thy Mother, 
 And at her Altars I will facrifice. 
 From this day forth I will adore no other, 
 No Goddefs fhall be gracious in mine eyes, 
 But flie that hath imperious rule and might, 
 To lead obdurate hearts to kind delight, 
 CompafTion now hath worthy Conqueft made 
 Of that ftrong Fort that did refiftance make. 
 
 One 
 
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 o/Guy Ear/ of W^iYw'ick. 
 
 One fhaft had been fufficient to pcrfwadc 
 
 A League for life, a Truce till death doth take, 
 
 G//J/ more than Life, doth Phcelice love prefer, 
 
 PJudicc aftc6l.s (iiiy dear, as he doth her. 
 
 But unto him her love is yet unknown. 
 
 Though his be made apparent long before. 
 
 He underftands not that flie is his own, 
 
 He feels no falve appli'd unto his fore, 
 
 Till forc'd by paffions, and conftrain'd laments, 
 
 A fecond Suit he boldly thus prefents. 
 
 PJiclicc, I was arraigned long ago. 
 And now I look for Judgement at th}- hand: 
 I hav^e been Prifoner in a Jay! of wo 
 So long, that fpeedy fentence I demand : 
 Oh fpeak unto me either life or death ! 
 For I am tired with my vital breath. 
 If kindnefs dwell in that fair fliape of thine, 
 Exprefs it with {I love) \ if none there be. 
 Then fay, I cannot unto love incline; 
 And fo thou mak'ft a quick difpatch with me : 
 Cenfure me fudden, either fmile or frown, 
 I will not live thus for this Kingdom's Crown, 
 Phcelice reply'd, Tis not at my difpofe, 
 To fafhion Love, without my Friends confent, 
 What, would you wifli me to be one of thofe 
 That are to Parents difobedient.^ 
 Shall fond afFe6lions over-rule the will, 
 And do you good, to be accounted ill.? 
 You know my Father's greatnefs in the Land, 
 And if he fliould (as there's no other hke) 
 The love of one too mean for me, withftand, 
 How could we bear the ftroke difgrace would 'ftrike? 
 Nothing but death would make my forrow fweet, 
 And fliame would wrap me in a Winding-flieet. 
 Doubt not of Father in this cafe (quoth he) 
 jFor Wariijick's Earl (the Honourable man) 
 Shall fee fuch deeds of valour done by me. 
 To have diflike he neither will nor can. 
 
 C 2 Injoyii 
 
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 The Famous Hijlory 
 
 Injoyn me what adventures thou think'ft good, 
 That wounds and fears may let my body blood. 
 Why then (quoth flie) Guy make thy Valour fliine 
 Throughout the world, as glorious as the Sun ; 
 My heart, my foul, my life, my love is thine: 
 What deeds of honour by thy hands are done: 
 Make thy felf famous by a Martial life, 
 And then take PJicelice for thy lawful wife. 
 I ask no more (faid he) to gain thy love, 
 I fliall efleem it bought at eafie rate : 
 O that I were at work, my task to prove. 
 With Hercules, or fome fuch churlifli Mate. 
 PJicclicc farewell, this kifs thou gaveft me, 
 Shall make a number kifs the ground for thee. 
 
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 ■\— From'^w^dSidiGiwy toYxd.wcQ.dotJigo, S. 
 ■^ Whei'e deeds of Anns are done; ^ 
 A nd tJienee returns triunipJiantly, 
 
 ^j With all his Prizes won. ^jv 
 
 CANTO III. 
 
 INlarg'd from forrow's thraldom by hope's bail, 
 Guy arms his thoughts with Honours enterprize, 
 Imbarks himfelf, and into France doth fail 
 Leaving fair England, where his comfort lies. 
 He feeks for Enemies, he longs for Foes, 
 And now defires to be a dealing blows. 
 In Normandy arriv'd, he underftands 
 That there was Warlike bufmefs to be done. 
 For valiant Knights of divers Chriftian Lands, 
 The race of Valour did intend to run : 
 A great advantage was propounded there. 
 Which news was mufick to his greedy ear. 
 
 The 
 
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 of Guy Earl of Warwick. 
 
 The prize that drew them all unto this Place, 
 
 Was Daughter to the Almain Emperor, 
 
 For Blanch, with fuch a wondrous heavenly face. 
 
 It had attra6live beauty full of power: 
 
 In her fuch Graces did unite together, 
 
 The Worthies of the world came pofting thither. 
 
 Who won the Damfel (it was thus decreed) 
 
 By manly courage, and vi6lorious might, 
 
 Should ha\'e her mounted on a milk-white Steed, 
 
 Two Greyhounds and a Faulcon, all in white: 
 
 This was his lot that could attain the da}% 
 
 To bear the Honour, and the Maid away. 
 
 Our EngliJIi Knight prepares him for the Field 
 
 Where Kings were prefent. Princes did repair; 
 
 Where Dukes and Earls a great Affembly held 
 
 About the face that was fo Avondrous fair: 
 
 Though only one muft fpeed, and hundreds mifs^ 
 
 Yet each man there imagines BlancJi is his. 
 
 The fpacious field where they affembled were, 
 
 Hardly afifordeth room for Armed Crouds : 
 
 The golden glittering Armour that was there, 
 
 Did dart the Sun-beams back into the Clouds : 
 
 The pamper'd horfes proudly ftamp the ground, 
 
 To hear the clamour of the Trumpets found. 
 
 A German Prince of an undaunted fprite, 
 
 A firft and very fierce Encounter gave 
 
 Unto an Earl, whofe valour did requite 
 
 With blow for blow, as refolutely brave; 
 
 Till by a fbroke the Earl received on's head. 
 
 He was unhors'd, falHng to ground for dead. 
 
 Then Guy came forth with courage to the Prince, 
 
 And deals with him as Hercules would do; 
 
 Like force he never felt before nor fince, 
 
 Such hard extreams he ne're was put unto: 
 
 Juft where himfelf had laid the Earl in fwound. 
 
 There down comes he, both horfe and man to ground. 
 
 Duke Ottoii feeing this, was in a rage. 
 
 And defp'rate humour did incenfe him fo, 
 
 He 
 
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 The Famo2is Hislory 
 
 He vow'd by Heaven nothinjr lliould affwage 
 
 His fury, but the death of that proud Foe. 
 
 Prepare thee, fight, to breathe thy laft (quoth he) 
 
 Monfter, or Devil, or what e're thou be. 
 
 They joyn together with a dreadful fight, 
 
 The fplinters fly, and clatteing Armour founds ; 
 
 The duft afcended up, and blinds their fight ; 
 
 The blood allays it, flreaming forth their wounds. 
 
 Both their fwords break, they light, and on his back 
 
 Guy threw the Duke, that cv'n his bones did crack. 
 
 Duke Raiiiey would revenge his Coufin then, 
 
 And for Encounter he prepareth next. 
 
 Ouoth Guy, I find y'are wretches and no men, 
 
 That with a blow or fall fo foon be vext : 
 
 But come, and \velcome, I am for you all ; 
 
 We fay in England, The iveakejl niuji to tJH wall. 
 
 They rufii together, that the ground did fliake, 
 
 Whilft animating Trumpets found alarm ; 
 
 In Rainers flioulder Guy a wound did make, 
 
 Whereby he loft the ufe of his right arm ; 
 
 Yielding himfelf as others did before, 
 
 Unable once to wield his weapon more. 
 
 Then for a while all ftood amaz'd at Guy, 
 
 And not a man was forward to proceed; 
 
 Till Lovaine's Duke his Fortunes went to try, 
 
 Having good hope that he fliould better fpeed : 
 
 Well mounted, and well arm'd, he fair did fit 
 
 On a proud Steed, that ill indur'd the bit. 
 
 1 think (quoth he) thou fome Inchanter art, 
 
 That hath the force of Magick in thine arm, 
 
 rie teach thee to believe e're we depart, 
 
 Ouoth G7<y, for thou flialt feel that I can charm: 
 
 ric conjure thee even with an Iron Spell, 
 
 My fword fhall fend thee unto Heaven or Hell. 
 
 With that he lent him fuch a cruel ftroke, 
 
 That the other did return a weak reply; 
 
 With fecond and with third his Helmet broke; 
 
 Hold, hold (quoth he) I'le rather yield than die; 
 
 Fight
 
 of Guy Earl of Warwick. 
 
 Fight for a Woman he that hft for mc, 
 
 I tliink the Devil cannot deal with thee. 
 
 Then not a man that would encounter more, 
 
 They all were terrifi'd and ftood in fear; 
 
 And in a rage among themfelves they fwore, 
 
 What fliall a ftranger all the honour bear 
 
 Of this great day? What curfed fortune's this, 
 
 That all the glory of the field is his! 
 
 Amongft themfelves his happinefs they curft, 
 
 In envy's heat, not knowing what to do; 
 
 They could have kill'd him, but that no man durft 
 
 Put his own life in hazard thereunto. 
 
 If wiflies might have done it, he had dy'd, 
 
 But fight with him not any could abide. 
 
 The Emperor, for Gicy, a Knight did fend. 
 
 Asking his Name and Birthright, which he told ; 
 
 Then faid His Majefty, I much commend 
 
 Thy haughty Courage refolutely bold : 
 
 Brave EngliJIi man, thou art thy countreys pride, 
 
 In Etcropc lives not fuch a man befide. 
 
 I do admire thy worth, thy Valour's great ; 
 
 To fpeak thy praife my tongue cannot fuffice; 
 
 Afcend to Honour's juft deferved feat, 
 
 That art a fecond Heclor in mine eyes. 
 
 This day thy worthy hand hath shew'd me more 
 
 Than in my life I ever faw before. 
 
 Come and receive th}' due defert of me. 
 
 My Daughter's love is free at thy difpofe, 
 
 The Greyhounds, Steed and Faulcon, take to thee; 
 
 Thy worthinefs doth merit more than thofe: 
 
 Hold, here's a Jewel, wear it for my fake. 
 
 Which I a witnefs of my love do make. 
 
 Guy thank'd his Highness for his gracious favour. 
 
 And vow'd him fervice whilft his life did laft. 
 
 Then to the Princefs with a mild behaviour, 
 
 A reverent, humble, modefl: look he caft. 
 
 Saying, Fair Lady, Fortune is my Friend, 
 
 That doth fuch beauty to my lot extend. 
 
 Madam, 
 
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 The Famous HiJIory 
 
 Madam, accept your loyal EngliJJi Knight, 
 
 To do true fervice when you pleafe command it: 
 
 Who, while he hath a drop of blood, will fight 
 
 In your behalf, againfl who dare withftand it: 
 
 To be your Husband is degree too high; 
 
 'Tis Grace fufficient, call me Serv^ant Guy. 
 
 In England doth my Marriage Love remain, 
 
 To whom I muft and will be true for ever; 
 
 About whofe face Nature hath took fuch pain, 
 
 I durfl have fworn flefh cou'd have matcht it never; 
 
 But now I find (that curioufly have ey'd her) 
 
 There is a Phcenix in the world befide her. 
 
 And that's your felf ; I dare the world deny it ; 
 
 But which is faireft, eye cannot decide. 
 
 No humane judgement in the world can try it, 
 
 Who hath moft Beauty, Blanch, or my fair Bride, 
 
 I dare be bold to call your Beauties Twins, 
 
 And Venus Blackamoor to both your skins. 
 
 Oh PJia;licc\ here's thy Pi6lure in this Princefs, 
 
 Methinks th' art prefent in her lovely look: 
 
 Thou that of my fouls faculties art Miftrefs, 
 
 Recorded in Time's brazen leaved Book; 
 
 To thee if I prove falfe, or be mifled, 
 
 jfoves fearful vengeance light upon my head. 
 
 Quoth Blanch, Thy conflancy (and fighed deep) 
 
 Is highly to be praifed; thou doft well: 
 
 He that Love's-promife will no faithful keep, 
 
 In horrors and in torments let him dwell. 
 
 But I fuppofe thy vows are yet to make, 
 
 And fo what thy fword won, thy heart may take. 
 
 What I avouch is true, the Heaven knows, 
 
 My proteftations are above the skies; 
 
 Madam, the Sun declines, day ancient grows, 
 
 rie take my leave of you in humble-wife, 
 
 My Body is unto repofe inclin'd, 
 
 Although no reft be in my troubled mind. 
 
 My troubled mind's in Warzaick-CsiMe now, 
 
 Although my body be in Normandj>. 
 
 Here 
 
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 of Guy ilW/ ^ Warwick. 
 
 Here I make others bend, there 1 do bow, 
 
 And lowly as the humble ground do lye, 
 
 Even at Love's feet I caft my fclf to ground, 
 
 Though Vi6lory my Temples here have crown'd. 
 
 I cannot ftay, I muft to England back, 
 
 My mind mifgivcs me, PIk^Hcc is not well: 
 
 Like my fad thoughts, my Armour fliall be black! 
 
 rie fuit me in a mournful Iron-flicll : 
 
 For where the mind meets with fufpicious cares, 
 
 Diftruffc is ever dealing doubtful fliares. 
 
 Yet I have much good fortune on my fide. 
 
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 That 
 
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 The Famo2ts Hiftory 
 
 That know the means hou- to attain my blifs ; 
 For Phczlices Love is to Conditions ty'd, 
 And I do truft flie is my own for this: 
 By this file ma}- : but if fhc more require, 
 There's nothing in the world I will deny'r. 
 With haft}' journey he is homeward bound. 
 Leaving the vulgar to the nine days wonder : 
 Arriving fafel}- on the EjigliJJi ground, 
 Porting to her, fuppos'd too long afunder : 
 Whom with more joy his chearful looks behold, 
 Than can by pen, or lines of ink be told, 
 
 III France all KnigJits of Chrijlendovi, 
 To win a Pfincefs, meet: 
 Guy conquers all, and zvins the prise, 
 Then doth his Goddess greet. 
 
 eg? ,. . ^ 
 
 iz With the rezuards of Viflorj — i- 
 
 -^ Guy doth his Love prefcnt, ^ 
 
 S But Phailice is notfatisfid: ^ 
 
 ^ Him forth again file fent. 
 
 CANTO IV. 
 
 IN the fuppofed Heaven of repofe, 
 Hope cafteth Anchor for his Barque to ride: 
 With kind falute unto his Love he goes; 
 Who gives embracement, and all things befide 
 Befit Affection; all fuch Complements 
 As Love can look for, gracious fhe prefents. 
 Fair Foe (quoth Guy), I come to challenge thee, 
 For there's no man that I can meet will fight; 
 I have been where a Crew of Cowards be, 
 Not one that dares maintain a Ladies right: 
 
 Good 
 
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 of Guy Earl of Warwick. 
 
 Good proper fellows of their tongues, and tall, 
 
 That let me win a Princefs from them all. 
 
 PJia;lice, this fword hath won an Einprors Daughter, 
 
 As fweet a Wench as lives in Europe s fpacc : 
 
 At price of blows, and bloody wounds I bought her, 
 
 Well Avorth my bargain ; but thy better face 
 
 Hath made me leave her to fome others Lot; 
 
 For, I proteft by Heaven, I love her not. 
 
 This ftately Steed, this Faulcon and thefe Hounds, 
 
 I took, as in full payment of the reft : 
 
 For I will keep my love within the bounds 
 
 That do inclofc the compafs of my breft : 
 
 My conftancy to thee is all my care^ 
 
 Leaving all other Women as they are. 
 
 But Sweet-heart, tell me, fliall I have thee now, 
 
 Wilt thou confent the Prieft fliall do his part.'' 
 
 Art thou refolved ftill to keep thy Vow.-* 
 
 Is none but I half with thee in thy heart? 
 
 Canft thou forfake the world, change Maiden-life, 
 
 And help thy faithful Lover to a Wife.^ 
 
 Quoth Phcelice, Worthy Knight, my joys are great. 
 
 To underftand thy honourable deeds: 
 
 It feems fome were in fuch a bloody fweat, 
 
 Their Valour, Fame and Reputation bleeds : 
 
 I give thee humble thanks, that for my fake 
 
 Such hard Adventures didft vouchfafe to take. 
 
 To win a Princefs v/as a precious prize; 
 
 But fure, methinks, if I had been Sir Gjiy, 
 
 She fhould have found more favour in mine eyes, 
 
 Than take a Horfe, and turn a Lady by. 
 
 What, is a Horfe, a Faulcon, and a Hound, 
 
 More worthy than a Lady fo renown'd.' 
 
 Perhaps you'l fay, 'tis done for love of me; 
 
 I do imagine, nay, believe it fo. 
 
 And though I jeft, I will do more for thee. 
 
 Than thou, or any but my felf doth know. 
 
 rie never marry while life's glass doth run. 
 
 But only thee, or I will die a Nun. 
 
 D2 But 
 
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 The Famotis Hijlory 
 
 But give me leave to fpeak my mind (kind Love) 
 
 Let me lock up my fecrets in thy breft. 
 
 I had a Vifion did affe6lion move, 
 
 Qipid came to me in my quiet reft, 
 
 And did command me, in his Mothers name, 
 
 To love thee. Thus perfvvading to the fame, 
 
 An armed man (juft as I fee thee now) 
 
 He fet before me, fpeaking to me thus. 
 
 PhcsHce, be gentle-hearted, yielding, bow, 
 
 Do not oppofe againft the power of us ; 
 
 But all thy love, thy loyalty and truth, 
 
 Beftow it freely on this matchlefs youth. 
 
 Throughout the world his Fame fliall be admired, 
 
 And mighty men fhall tremble at his wrath. 
 
 To end Kings quarrels, he fhall be required, 
 
 His worthinefs fhall tread no common path. 
 
 But aflions to be fear'd, he fliall effeft 
 
 Matters of moment, things of great refpeft. 
 
 This (in effe6l) he did to me relate. 
 
 And I have been obedient to his will. 
 
 Now if I would, I know not how to hate ; 
 
 Of perfefl kindnefs I am taught the skill. 
 
 Believe me, Guy, for if it were not fo. 
 
 This fecret of my heart thou fliouldft not know. 
 
 But now, my Love, before thou doft poffefs 
 
 Thy conftant Phceltce in her Marriage-bed, 
 
 Thou muft do deeds of greater worthynefs, 
 
 Than winning of a Lady with her Steed. 
 
 I'le ever love thee, though I ne're do more, 
 
 But will not grant thee ufe of love before. 
 
 Not grant me ufe of love (quoth he) fair Friend! 
 
 Why then of force I muft abroad again. 
 
 I will content thee, or I'le make an end 
 
 One way or other, flay or elfe be flain. 
 
 Ere I return again into this Realm, 
 
 Thou flialt confefs I have fulfill'd thy Dream, 
 
 Affift me Heavens, as I mean upright; 
 
 For I proteft by all the powers Divine, 
 
 No 
 
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 of Guy EarlofVsI^vW\c]<i. 
 
 No unjuft quarrel fliall procure me fight, 
 
 To wrong the wronged I will ne're incline; 
 
 But ftand for thofe that by oppreffion fall, 
 
 In Honor's venture; be it life and all. 
 
 Come my Bellona, do thou gird my fword, 
 
 Embrace my Armour in thy Ivory Arms, 
 
 And fuch kind kiffes as thou canft afford, 
 
 Bcftow vpon me in the ftead of Charms. 
 
 I think upon Vlyffes loving Wife, 
 
 How thou art now to imitate her life. 
 
 Farewel, my P/icelice, health and happinefs 
 
 Attend thee ever, to thy hearts defire. 
 
 And I befeech God grant me like fuccefs, 
 
 As I refolve my love to thee intire, 
 
 At my return, when Mars his bus'nefs ends, 
 
 My comfort is, Hymen will make amends. 
 
 And fo unto Earl Roband he repairs, 
 
 And tells him, he is come to take his leave; 
 
 He muft feek out where Honour dealeth fliares, 
 
 To purchafe that which worthy men receive. 
 
 At home (faith he) my honourable Lord, 
 
 I find that Valour nothing can afford ; 
 
 Therefore I'le fearch abroad what's to be done, 
 
 From Countrey unto Kingdom Fie refort, 
 
 By Nature's courfe my Glafs hath much to run ; 
 
 I well may fpare fome years for fighting fport; 
 
 Of idlenefs there's nothing comes but evil, 
 
 I hate a Coward as I hate the Devil. 
 
 Guy (quoth the Earl) thou mak'ft me grieve at this, 
 
 The news is more than I can well indure, 
 
 Thy wifhed company fo foon to mifs. 
 
 When I did make account I had been fure 
 
 Poffeft of thee, at thy late travels end; 
 
 And doft thou now Journeys anew intend.? 
 
 Remain with me, truft not to fortunes pow'r; 
 
 Though now fhe hath fo well and kindly dealt, 
 
 She may allot thee an unlucky hour, 
 
 That inftantly her Favours fo have felt. 
 
 Her 
 
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 The Faviotts Hiftory 
 
 Her coutefies are moft unconftant things, 
 Believe her not, flie dealeth falfe with Kings. 
 Triumphant on her wheel now thou doft fit. 
 And with Fame's Triumph thy glory doth remain, 
 Oh ! do not over-raflily hazard it ; 
 Loft honour is not eas'ly got again. 
 May not one curfed and unhappy blow- 
 Betray thy felf to thy infulting Foe? 
 May not a Monfter, or a favage beafl, 
 At unawares deprive thee of thy breath.^ 
 May not a Tyrant when thou thinkeft leaft. 
 Cut off thy courfe by an untimely death.'' 
 May not a thoufand dangers on thee light. 
 Where but thy felf, thy wronged felf muft right.? 
 (Quoth GiLy) My Lord, danger he may hot fear, 
 That to Adventures doth himfelf difpofe; 
 He muft a mind of refolution bear. 
 And think himfelf too good for all his foes; 
 rie never dread I fliall be over man'd 
 While I have hands to fight, or legs to ftand. 
 Therefore in humble fort I leave your honour, 
 Wifliing all health unto your happy ftate. 
 If Fortune take a frowning mood upon her, 
 Why, file fhall fee I will difdain her hate, 
 What ftar foever fway'd when I was born, 
 I have a mind will laugh mif hap to fcorn, 
 
 Guy to the Duke of Lovain goes, 
 And joy lis ivitJi him in Jlrength 
 
 Againjl the Emperor Reyner, 
 Then makes J lis peace at length. 
 
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 CANTO V 
 
 Ow Gny expe6ts a favourable gail, 
 Which to his hearts defire he doth attain; 
 
 And 
 
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 of Guy Earl of Warwick. 
 
 And with a fpeedy paffagc he doth fail, 
 
 To feek Adventures out in in France again; 
 
 Where finding none, from thence away he hies 
 
 To LovatHy where in fiegc the Emp'ror lies. 
 
 For Segiviu Duke oi LovahU s hap was fuch, 
 
 At Turnamcnt a Noble-man to kill. 
 
 The Emperor's coufin, whom he loved much. 
 
 And took the death of him exceeding ill; 
 
 So that a quarrel thereupon arofe, 
 
 And Wars enfu'd betwixt two mighty foes. 
 
 Thither goes Guy to lend the Duke his aid, 
 
 But in the way an accident befcl ; 
 
 For by Duke Otton he w^as falfe betray'd, 
 
 And's life in queftion, which he freed well, 
 
 Otton in France before difgrac'd by Guy, 
 
 Had vow'd where e're he met him he fhould die. 
 
 And to that end, fixteen appointed were 
 
 To lye in ambufh, and furprize him fo; 
 
 All men of refolution, void of fear. 
 
 That in a Foreft did themfelves beftow, 
 
 And fet on Gny, only with three Knights more, 
 
 The like diftrefs he ne're was in before. 
 
 Now Gentlemen, and loving Friends (quoth he). 
 
 Shew your felves EngliJIi hearted, rightly bred. 
 
 Here is fome odds, fixteen unto you three; 
 
 But I the fourth will ftand you in fome ftead; 
 
 You three fhall combat fix, that's two for one; 
 
 And with the other ten let me alone. 
 
 Wherewith he drew his fword, and laid about, 
 
 That ratling Armour eccho'd in the skye; 
 
 Dealing fo refolute amongft the rout, 
 
 That down they drop on every fide, and die. 
 
 Here lyeth one that hath no legs to ftand, 
 
 And there another wanting head and hand, 
 
 Gny quickly made difpatch of his half fcore. 
 
 He was not long in ridding them away: 
 
 But then remained half a dozen more, 
 
 Which two of his moft worthy Knights did fay 
 
 When 
 
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 The Famoits Hiftory 
 
 When he perceiv'd them fall, he ftampt the ground, 
 
 And utter'd forth this fearful angry found : 
 
 Ah villains! how my foul abhors this fight: 
 
 For thefe how my revenging paffion ftrives: 
 
 This bloody deed with blood I will requite. 
 
 You die for it, had each a thoufand lives. 
 
 Two flain out-right, and Hcraud wounded too, 
 
 Is the laffc curfcd A61 that you fliall do. 
 
 With force (as 'twere exceeding humane ftrength) 
 
 He lays upon them blows to ftagger under, 
 
 And brought them breathlefs to the ground, at length 
 
 \Cut all in piece-meal for the Crows afunder: 
 
 "There lye (quoth he) and feafb Fowls of the Air, 
 
 Or feed thofe favage beafts that will repair. 
 
 But thefe fweet Gentlemen that have refign'd 
 
 Their deareft Lives for the defence of me, 
 
 And came from England, as their Love inclin'd, 
 
 Companions in my hardeft haps to be ; 
 
 I will inter in honourable wife, 
 
 With beft folemnity I can devife. 
 
 From thence unto a Hermit, dwelling nigh, 
 
 He rode, and did commit that charge with care, 
 
 Who did perform that office carefully. 
 
 And Herand home unto his Cell he bare ; 
 
 Who was not dead, though Gny fuppos'd him flain. 
 
 But by the Hermet was reftor'd again. 
 
 Nov/ forth goes Gtiy, penfive, perplexed, fad, 
 
 Grieving that Deftiny fo cruel dealt; 
 
 For left alone, no company he had, 
 
 To eafe the torments that in heart he felt: 
 
 Till travelling along, at laft he found 
 
 A place for honour very much renown'd. 
 
 There did he meet with Tilt and Tur7ia7nent, 
 
 And entertain both glory and delight ; 
 
 There fortune yielded him her full confent 
 
 To win the beft of every valiant Knight: 
 
 Of all the worthy men that did refort, 
 
 Not one could match him in Duke Reyners Court. 
 
 Then 
 
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 of Guy EarlofV\f2i\'w\ck. 
 
 riien to the Duke of Millain he repairs, 
 
 Where for his worth he is admir'd of all : 
 
 And underftanding that fome great affairs 
 
 Twixt Segwiii Duke of Lovain did befall, 
 
 And til' Emperor; Millain he did forfakc, 
 
 And towards Lovain did his journey take, 
 
 As he did pafs upon the way, he meets 
 
 A Pilgrim, that with travel feemed faint : 
 
 Whom in all human courtefies he greets, 
 
 And with fome news entreats him to acquaint 
 
 His longing ear; he with a figh or two 
 
 Said, Sir, with news I little have to do. 
 
 One thing in all this world is all my care. 
 
 And only that, and nothing elfe I mind ; 
 
 I feek a man, and feek him in defpair; 
 
 Becaufe I long have fought, and cannot find 
 
 A man more dearly to my fouls love ty'd, 
 
 Than all the men are in the world befide. 
 
 Why, what art thou, quoth Guy, or who is he? 
 
 Of kindnefs be fo kind, as tell in brief, 
 
 I am an EngliJJi man of Knights degree, 
 
 (Quoth Herand) and the fubje6l of my grief, 
 
 Is lofs of one Sir Gicy, my Countrey-man, 
 
 Gny with joys tears lights to embrace him then. 
 
 And art thou living, Heraicd, my dear freind 
 
 (Quoth he).-* and kindly took him in his arms: 
 
 Then cheerfully let forrows all take end. 
 
 And let me know who cur'd thee of thy harms .'' 
 
 The good old Hermit by his skill did fave me. 
 
 With wholsome Medicines and Salves he gave me. 
 
 Guy did reioyce; and Herand' s]oys abound 
 
 At this fo good and happy accident; 
 
 No angry Star in oppofition frown'd. 
 
 But each was owner of his own content : 
 
 So porting with good fortune on their fide, 
 
 Unto the Duke of Lovain they do ride. 
 
 The City in diftrefs befieg'd they find. 
 
 And very fmall refiftance could be made; 
 
 E But 
 
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 The Fa77iotis Hilary 
 
 But Segivin Avas right joyful in his mind, 
 
 That worthy Guy was come unto his aid. 
 
 For now (quoth he) boldly prefume I can, 
 
 We have an honourable valiant man. 
 
 Advife me, warlike Knight, what's to be done, 
 
 To free the prefent danger we are in ? 
 
 My Lord (quoth Guy), there's freedom to be won ; 
 
 Ev'n by a courfe my felf will firft begin : 
 
 Let's iffue forth upon them prefently; 
 
 Our Courages will make the Cowards fly. 
 
 rie give cbnfent to any thing thou wilt, 
 
 Thy projeft willingly I do approve: 
 
 Let limb be loft, let life and blood be fpilt, 
 
 All follow thee, that comes to me in love, 
 
 Open the Gates, let's beat them from our Walls: 
 
 He lies no lower than the ground, that falls. 
 
 Then fuddenly the City they forfake, 
 
 And on the Aluiains refolutely fet, 
 
 Where fuch a bloody llaughter they did make, 
 
 That many thoufand lives paid Death his debt. 
 
 Of thirty thoufand that in Siege there lay. 
 
 Scarce thirty hundred that efcap'd away. 
 
 The Emperor at this was much agrieved, 
 
 And with new forces gave a new affault. 
 
 Knowing the City could not be relieved. 
 
 And then their ftrength would weaken by default. 
 
 So comes upon them with a frefli fupply. 
 
 Thinking at length to famifli them thereby. 
 
 Guy and the Duke upon the Walls appear. 
 
 And tell him he fhall never win the Town : 
 
 For they can fpare their Soldiers much good cheer, 
 
 Throwing them Victuals in abundance down : 
 
 Intreating them, if they want more than that, 
 
 To fpeak, they fliall have ftore to make them fat. 
 
 But now, quoth Gtiy, your Bodies are well fed. 
 
 How do you feel your Stomachs to go fight.'' 
 
 I am afraid you are not rightly bred, 
 
 But Dunghils, that will fooner crow than bite; 
 
 For 
 
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 of Gu)' Earl of Warwick. 
 
 For 11:111 when Cowards do begin a fray, 
 Look e're it ends, to fee them run away; 
 And fo your felves have lately done we fee. 
 Your toungcs wc heard, but hands there's no man feels r 
 Moft: hot to brabble and contend you be, 
 But wondrous quick and nimble at your heels. 
 We did fufpcfl when you came here to forage, 
 We lliould have been incumbrcd with your courage. 
 But it's not fo, alas you're not the men, 
 Unlefs perhaps afleep you fhould us catch; 
 For waking we'l encounter one for ten, 
 And never wifli to have a better match: 
 Have at you once again, fit faft, we come, 
 March on my hearts, found trumpet, ftrike up drum : 
 Upon the fudden with the Foe they be. 
 Fighting like men that laught pale death to fcorn, 
 Refolved now they would their City free, 
 Or never live to fee the next day morn. 
 ]\Iuch blood was flied, great ftore of lives it coft, 
 And on the Abuaiiis fide the day was loft. 
 The Duke, with GjLy, purfuc their foes in chafe; 
 Who like fo many Hares away do fly; 
 Wifliing that they had wings to mend their pace; 
 So fweet is life to them that fear to die. 
 But Fortune in an angry doom decreed. 
 Their glory, honour, fame and life fliould bleed: 
 The Vi6lors to the City then retired. 
 With trophies of triumphant glory won; 
 And all that heard the A6lion much admired 
 The great exploit fo refolutely done: 
 But unto Guy the Duke all thanks did yield; 
 For thou (quoth he) art Cccfar of our field 
 My Lord (quoth Gn)>), I joy not half fo much, 
 That we have wrought a freedom by the fword, 
 As I fliould glory, if my hap were fuch, 
 Twixt you and th' Emperor to make accord : 
 Give me but leave, I will endeavour it; 
 And put good will to a blunt Soldiers Wit. 
 
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 The Famous Hi^ory 
 
 The Duke confents with thanks, and doth intreat 
 
 Him take a guard of Soldiers forth the Town; 
 
 Danger that feems but httle, may prove great, 
 
 I would not have thee wrong'd for Reyners Crown. 
 
 Go honourable man, what thou fhalt do, 
 
 I'lc fet my hand, my heart, my life thereto. 
 
 G2cy goes unto the Emperor, fpeaks thus: 
 
 High Majefty, all health unto thy Grace, 
 
 And peace to thee, if thou fay peace to us ; 
 
 And love to thee, if thou wilt love embrace: 
 
 As we are Chriftians, let us War no more. 
 
 But fight 'gainft fuch as will not God adore, 
 
 We fue to thee not in a fervile manner, 
 
 As dreading any power or force thou haft ; 
 
 For Victory doth now difplay his banner, 
 
 And War yields us a fv/eet and pleafant taft ; 
 
 No caufe doth move it, but a Confcience caufe, 
 
 To bring the Heathens to Religious Laws. 
 
 Speak Reyiier, and rcfolve, what wilt thou do.'' 
 
 With Soldiers brevity my Meffage ends; 
 
 Give me an Anfwer, ev'n as brief hereto: 
 
 Shall we be Chriftians Foes, or Chriftian Friends? 
 
 Shall we among our felves the Name divide.^ 
 
 Or challenge them that have the fame deni'd.'' 
 
 |Brave EngliJJi man! hadft thou fpoke thus before, 
 
 friioufands, quoth he, had liv'd which now are flain ; 
 
 Earth fliould have wanted of that flaughter'd ftore 
 
 Which doth in her vaft bowels now remain: 
 
 Thou haft prvail'd with me, hot War fhall ceafe, 
 
 And I embrace thee as a friend in piece. 
 
 Thy motion tends to Honour, Honour's Knight, 
 
 And thou fhalt live in Fame's immortal praife. 
 
 When thou art buried in eternal night, 
 
 Thy name flialt laft the longeft length of days. 
 
 Thou doft the Worthies of the world exceed, 
 
 Bleft be the Countrey did thy perfon breed. 
 
 Come, go my Liege (quoth Guy) unto the Town, 
 
 And to Duke Segivin there a League renew: 
 
 Our 
 
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 of Guy Earl of Warwick. 
 
 Our end fliall be to pull the Pagans down, 
 
 That unto Chrift's Religion are untrue. 
 
 My grcateft joy will be to hear it faid, 
 
 This is the bcft days work that e're Guy made. 
 
 Guy ivith a thoiifand cJiofeii men, 
 
 againjl tJie Pagans goes. 
 And makes them cnrje that ere they felt 
 
 the force of CJiriflian bloivs. 
 
 CANTO VI. 
 
 THP2 power of peace hath vanquiflit ftubborn War, 
 And mighty Princes worthily conclude, 
 The fword fhall ruft in fheath before it jar. 
 To be v/ith blood of Innocents imbrew'd : 
 Chriftians in Name and A6lions to unite, 
 'Gainft unbelieving Infidels to fight. 
 Guy with a thoufand men doth take his leave, 
 To hearken further after Martial news, 
 And doth a true intelligence receive, 
 That barb'rous Pagans, Sarazens and Jezvs, 
 Turks, and the like, of MaJiomefs blind Cre^v, 
 In moft confufed War each others flew. 
 To them he goes, partial on neither part, 
 His fword did favour every fide alike, 
 They all were odious to him in his heart ; 
 Which arm'd his hand with vigour for to ftrike, 
 And work amazement unto their contending. 
 Coming fo roughly to their quarrels ending, 
 Quoth they amongft themfelves, What fellow s this, 
 That lays about him like a mad man thus.^ 
 Of certainty, more than a man he is ; 
 For human force would fear to fight with us : 
 
 But 
 
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 The Famous Hijlory 
 
 But if he be, as feemeth by his fhape, 
 
 Had he ten thoufand lives he fliould not fcape. 
 
 Then did a haughty Pagan ffcep to Guy, 
 
 And faid to him, if Valour in thee refl, 
 
 Let's have a little fport 'twixt thee and I, 
 
 Only to fee which of our Swords cuts beft: 
 
 Thou haft a weapon there like to a Reed: 
 
 Methinks it is too blunt to make one bleed. 
 
 Too blunt (quoth Giiy)\ and in his anger groans: 
 
 Pagan, I like thy humour paffing well. 
 
 rie whet it, e're we part, upon thy bones, 
 
 And then another tale thou wilt me tell ; 
 
 If it fliould fail me now, it were a wonder, 
 
 Such Lubbers it hath often hew'd in funder. 
 
 But come, art ready.-* Bid thy friends adieu. 
 
 And fay thy Prayers unto thy Pagan Gods; 
 
 For I do mean to ufe thee like a Jew, 
 
 Becaufe with Chriftians thou doft ftand at odds ; 
 
 Look that thy head be fet on fure and faft, 
 
 Or, mortal man, Tie prove thee but a blaft. 
 
 Then did they lend each other lufty knocks, 
 
 That fparks of fire did from their Helmets fly: 
 
 The Martial multitude about them flocks, 
 
 Expe6ling all the end and death of Guy. 
 
 For Colbrond, whom he fought withal, was ftrong. 
 
 And had been Champion to the Pagans long. 
 
 At length Guy lent him fuch a fpeedy blow, 
 
 That down comes Colbrond and his ftrength to ground. 
 
 Pagan (quoth he), is my fword fliarp or no, 
 
 With which even now fuch a blunt fault you found.'' 
 
 Rife quick, for if thy legs thou canft not feel. 
 
 Off goes thy head as fure as this is fteel. 
 
 Forthwith he made him fliorter by the head. 
 
 And that unto the Emperor he fent. 
 
 The Infidels grew all aftoniflied, 
 
 For they in Colbrond were fo confident, 
 
 They durft have ventured goods, and life, and limb, 
 
 On any Combat that was fought by him, 
 
 Then 
 
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 of Guy Earl of Warwick. 
 
 Tlien Heraud (to give Guy fomc breathing fpace) 
 
 Challeng'd a Pagan, called Elmadant; 
 
 And dar'd him, and defi'd him to his face; 
 
 {Vox valiant Heraud did no courage want) 
 
 The Pagan fomewhat hot with fur}- fill'd, 
 
 Did combat, being quickly cool'd and kill'd. 
 
 Prefently Guy unto another comes, 
 
 Call'd Mot'gadour, and foundly with his blade 
 
 Lays on him, and his fenfes fo benums, 
 
 He tumbles head-long like a tired Jade. 
 
 The Pagans feeing their Champions thus go down, 
 
 Forfook the Field, retiring to the Town. 
 
 Where a moft bloody Tyrant bare tlic fwaj-, 
 
 Who hearing Avhat had hapned, full of ire. 
 
 Went armed to the Tent whereas Guy lay, 
 
 And did a Combat at his hands require. 
 
 Villain (quoth he) whom like a Dog 1 fcorn, 
 
 rie make thee curfe the time that thou wall born. 
 
 Now Runnagate, I come to fetch thy head. 
 
 For to a Lady I have promis'd it ; 
 
 My curs fhall with thy Euglijli flelh be fed, 
 
 They muft devour thy body every bit: 
 
 Come, I have vow'd by Mahomet thou di'ft, 
 
 Thou canft not fcape by trulling in thy ChrilL 
 
 And haft thou giv'n away my head (quoth he) 
 
 Unto a Lady.'' 'tis a brave intent; 
 
 An honeft man will his Words-Mailer be, 
 
 And never promife more than he hath meant: 
 
 Come on thy ways, and take it quickly off, 
 
 Or elfe the Lady will fuppofe you feoff 
 
 With proud difdain together then they rufh, 
 
 Laying it on as faft as they could drive; 
 
 But Eskcldart Guys fword did fo becrufli. 
 
 That for his head no longer durft he ftrive; 
 
 But on the fudden for to fave his own. 
 
 Put fpurs to horfe, and in all poft is gone. 
 
 Guy then returns to Heraud, and declares 
 
 What a bold fellow came to fetch his head : 
 
 Who 
 
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 The Famous Hijlory 
 
 Who fmiling at it, merrily prepares 
 
 To tell of his adventures, how he fped 
 
 With a falfc Coward called Addellart, 
 
 That wounded him with an envenom'd Dart, 
 
 And being hurt moft dangeroufly fo, 
 
 Was intercepted e're he could retire 
 
 By EJlellard, a proud infulting Foe, 
 
 Compos'd of cruelty, of devilifli ire. 
 
 But (quoth Sir Heraud) e're our fray was done, 
 
 I made them wifli it never had begun. 
 
 For Addellart I wounded in the fide, 
 
 And EJlcllard I cur-tail'd by the knees : 
 
 Then left them lying, Death to be their guide 
 
 Unto the Jayl where worms do claim their fees. 
 
 So when thefe two were feen to fall down dead, 
 
 All t' other Pagans with amazement fled. 
 
 Wh}- then (quoth Guy) all's quiet I perceive; 
 
 The Mifcreants like unto Foxes lye; 
 
 But gentle Heraud, e're we take our leave, 
 
 One Combat more I am rcfolv'd to try: 
 
 The General of this accurfed Rout, 
 
 Shall be the man I mean to fmgle out. 
 
 They term him mighty Soldan ; Friend, I long 
 
 To make a proof, if he deferve the name ; 
 
 I am in doubt they do him mighty wrong. 
 
 If might be wanting to avouch the fame : 
 
 Titles of worth become bafe Cowards ill, 
 
 rie try what's in him, hap whatever will. 
 
 Nay Heraud, leave me, prithee do forbear. 
 
 I will be fpeedy, tarry in this Wood : 
 
 Go to your graffy bank, repofe thee there. 
 
 And with this balfom fta}' thofe drops of blood. 
 
 Ere P/iabus in the Occident decline, 
 
 Death fliall conclude the Soldaus life or mine. 
 
 Said Heraud; Since thou wilt not let me go. 
 
 But durft appoint this bed of Earth to bear me ; 
 
 Till thou return, I will converfe with wo, 
 
 And will not fuffer any Bird fmg near me. 
 
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 of (^\\y Earl of Warwick. 
 
 With longing eyes, and careful liflning ears, 
 rie fpcnd thy abfent time in prayers and tears, 
 Guy pofls with fpeed, and doth the Souldan find, 
 And thus he fpeaks. Art thou the man of Might, 
 Sirnamed fo by tongues, and peoples wind? 
 Mere is a Chriflian comes to dare thee fight: 
 Botli Mahomet and thee I do defie, 
 And here's a fword I will maintain it by! 
 The Souldan with a flaring look replies, 
 Thou Chriftian flave, I'le chaftife thee with fteel. 
 Thou art an odious creature in mine eyes, 
 And thy prefumption fhall my fury feel. 
 With that at Guy he ran Avith all his force, 
 Their Launces brake, and each forfook his Horfe. 
 Then by the Sword the Vi6lor muft prevail. 
 Which manly force makes deadly wounds withal, 
 Cutting through Armour, mangling fliirts of Mail, 
 That at the laft down did the Souldan fall. 
 Sending blafphemous curfes to the skye. 
 And cafting handfuls of his blood at Guy. 
 Who prefently took horfe, and then retir'd 
 To Heraud, whom he found in flumber laid ; 
 Rife Friend (quoth he), the time is now expir'd. 
 An end with mighty Souldan I have made. 
 With that he rofe with joy and Loves embrace, 
 And forth they travel to another place. 
 
 -f— Guy takes a Princely Lyon's part 
 
 P 
 
 ^ and doth a Dragon kill; g- 
 
 ^_ Then frees fair 0^\\c frojn niijhaps, — i- 
 
 ■^ that elfe had fared ill. ^ 
 
 CANTO VII. 
 
 Affing the Defart now, where fhady trees 
 Embrac'd each other in their green-leave arms ; 
 
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 The Famotts Hijlory 
 
 Where Lad}' Eccho's dwelling befl agrees, 
 And little birds fing fearlcfs of their harms, 
 They chanc'd to find a filver flreaming fpring, 
 Which water to them was a pleafant thing. 
 
 His Lady Je7ids him forth again, 
 Whofe will he doth obey, 
 And manfully a Dragon kills. 
 To pari a cruel fray. 
 
 Tliere 
 
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 of Guy Earl o/\\[7xrW\(zk. 
 
 There with the cryftal ftreams they cool their heat, 
 
 And flake their thirft they had endured long; 
 
 There did they make the herbs and roots their meat, 
 
 To fatisfie for Nature's hungry wrong: 
 
 But on a fudden at a noife they wonder, 
 
 A Lyon roar'd as if great Jove did thunder, 
 
 Hcraiid (quoth Gicy), to horfe let's be prepar'd. 
 
 And leave our dinner till another day; 
 
 Here is a found, I never was fo fcar'd, 
 
 rie feek it out, it comes from yonder- way: 
 
 Some Monfter, or fome Devil makes a noife, 
 
 For on my life it is no human voice. 
 
 So forth he rides, and underneath a hill, 
 
 He finds a Dragon with a Lyon met: 
 
 Brave fport (faid he) I pray fight on your fill, 
 
 And then upon the ftrongeft I will fet: 
 
 Which of the twain that firft afide doth ftart, 
 
 I am a friend that will maintain his part. 
 
 The Dragon winds his crooked knotted tail 
 
 About the Lyon's legs, to caft him fo; 
 
 The Lyon faftens on his rugged fcale, 
 
 And nimbly doth avoid that overthrow: 
 
 Then tooth and nail, they cruelly tear and bite, 
 
 Maintaining long a fierce and bloody fight. 
 
 At laft the Lyon faintly turns a fide: 
 
 And looks about, as if he would be gone: 
 
 Nay then (quoth Guy) Dragon have at your hide,. 
 
 Defend thy Devils face, I'le lay it on. 
 
 With that couragioufly to Avork he goes, 
 
 And deals the Dragon very manly blows. 
 
 The ugly beaft, with flaggy wings difplay'd, 
 
 Comes at him manly, with mofl: dreadful paws, 
 
 Whofe very looks might make a man afraid. 
 
 So terrible feem'd his devouring jaws: 
 
 Wide gaping, grifly, like the mouth of hell. 
 
 More horrible than pen or tongue can tell. 
 
 His blazing eyes did burn like living fire. 
 
 And forth his fmoaking gorge came fulphur fmoke. 
 
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 The Famotis Hiftory 
 
 Aloft his fpeckled breaft he Hfted higher 
 
 Than Guy could reach at length of weapons ftroke ; 
 
 Thus in moft ireful mood himfelf he bore, 
 
 And gave a cry as Seas are wont to rore. 
 
 With that his mortal fting he ftretched out, 
 
 Exceeding far the fliarpefl point of fteel ; 
 
 Then turns and winds his fcaly tail about 
 
 The Horfes legs, more nimble than an Eel: 
 
 With that Giiy hews upon him with his blade, 
 
 And three mens ftrength to every ftroke he laid. 
 
 One fatal blow he gave him in the fide, 
 
 From thence did iffue ftreams of fwarthy blood ; 
 
 The fword had made the paffage broad and wide, 
 
 That deep into the Monfter's gore Giiy ftood : 
 
 Then with a fecond blow he overtook him, 
 
 Which made the Dragon turn to have forfook him. 
 
 Nay then, quoth he, thou haft not long to live, 
 
 I fee thou faintefl at the Point to fall ; 
 
 Then fuch a ftroke of death he did him give, 
 
 That down came Dragon, crying out withall 
 
 So horrible, the found did more affright 
 
 The Conqueror, than all the dreadful fight. 
 
 Away he rides, and lets that Hell-hound lie; 
 
 But looking back, efpies behind his Horfe 
 
 The Lyon coming after very nigh. 
 
 Which makes him light to follow manly force; 
 
 But when the Beaft beheld his weapon drawn, 
 
 He came to him, and like a dog did fawn. 
 
 Like to that grateful Lyon which did free 
 
 Androdtts life, for pulling out a thorn. 
 
 When by offence he fhould by Laws decree. 
 
 Within a Theater by beafts be torn ; 
 
 The Lyon came, and lick'd him very kind, 
 
 Bearing (as feem'd) an old good turn in mind. 
 
 Ev'n fo this gentle creature deals with him. 
 
 For that fame benefit which he hath done; 
 
 Although by Nature cruel, fierce and grim, 
 
 Yet like a Spaniel by his horfe did run; 
 
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 of Guy Earl of Warwick. 
 
 Continuing many days with great defire, 
 
 Till extream hunger forc'd him to retire. 
 
 Now towards the Sea Giiy doth his journey take, 
 
 Imbarques for France, but by contrary wind 
 
 Arrives in Almain, where the Nobles make 
 
 Great triumph for him, and with joyful mind; 
 
 The Emperor rejoyces that he's come. 
 
 And bids him welcome into Chriftendom. 
 
 There is he entertain'd with Turnament, 
 
 With Kingly banquets, Princely Revelling: 
 
 And multitudes to give their eyes content, 
 
 Attend him with their throng, ftill wondering 
 
 At all his worthy A6ts report had fpread. 
 
 Where with their ears moft flrangely had been fed. 
 
 From thence he travels towards his loving friend 
 
 The Duke oi Lovain, whom he long'd to fee; 
 
 But e're he came unto his journeys end, 
 
 A wronged Lady he did worth'ly free; 
 
 Which violently was from her love bereft. 
 
 And he at point of death fore wounded left. 
 
 Thus it befel, Terry a valiant Earl 
 
 With his dear Love, firnam'd Ofile the Fair, 
 
 (His precious Jem, ineftimable Pearl) 
 
 Into a Foreft went to take the air; 
 
 Whereas a plot was laid to take his life. 
 
 And make his beauteous Love anothers wife. 
 
 Upon the fudden fixteen Villains came 
 
 Unto the Earl, and did him grievous wound. 
 
 Sirrah (quoth one) thou haft a wench we claim, 
 
 She muft with us, lye thou there on the ground, 
 
 And the next paffenger that thou dofl fee, 
 
 Intreat him make a grave to bury thee. 
 
 Guy finding Terry thus, hearing his plaint. 
 
 Doth comfort him in kindeft fort he can: 
 
 Who with the lofs of blood doth weakly faint. 
 
 With force of deadly choler pale and wan: 
 
 Courage (quoth he) Tie fetch thy Love again, 
 
 Or fay that Guy is but a Coward Swain. 
 
 When 
 
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 The Famous Hiftory 
 
 When Terry heard that name, he did revive, 
 
 For unto Guy his worthy deeds were known : 
 
 And lifting up himfelf from ground, did flrive 
 
 For to embrace him in deep paffions groan. 
 
 Thanks gracious Heavens (quoth he) with foul and heart, 
 
 For fending thee to take my Avronged part. 
 
 Which is the way (quoth he) thofe villians went? 
 
 That path, faid woful Terry by yon Oak : 
 
 Have after them, this deed they fliall repent, 
 
 As I'm a Chriflian Knight, and as he fpoke, 
 
 He heard a fhriek, Which was the Ladies cry. 
 
 So by that found he did them foon difcry : 
 
 Coming unto them. Wretched flaves (quoth he) 
 
 What do you purpofe with this Lady here.'' 
 
 Inlarge her prefently, and fet her free. 
 
 You have done wrongs that will be rated dear; 
 
 Her Husband wounded, fhe us'd violent 
 
 Will coft your lives a price incontinent. 
 
 With that they laugh'd and faid, what fool's this fame, 
 
 Or rather mad-man in his defperate mind, 
 
 That means by wilful death to get a name, 
 
 And have the world report he hath been kind.-* 
 
 The fellow fure is in fome frantick fit, 
 
 And means to fight, without both fear and wit. 
 
 Like fo (quoth he) the fit that's on me now, 
 
 You fliall all find to be a raging one. 
 
 With that he fliews them Mars his angry brow , 
 
 And bids the Lady ceafe her penfive moan : 
 
 Saying, Good Madam, unto joy incline. 
 
 For fuddenly the Rafcals will be mine. 
 
 Then with a courage admirable bold. 
 
 At ever^^' blow fome one or other dies : 
 
 Which when the gentle Lady did behold, 
 
 Oh pity ! worthy Knight, flie crys ; 
 
 Thefe mortal wounds I can no longer fee; 
 
 Be not fo bloody in revenging me. 
 
 Upon my knees I do intreat thee fbay, 
 
 This is to me a terrifying fight : 
 
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 of Guy Earl of Warwick. 
 
 Oh! with their lives thou takefl mine away; 
 
 If one die more, I faintly yield my fp'rite. 
 
 Thou worthily mine honour haft defended, 
 
 Let the revenging of my wrongs be ended. 
 
 Lady (quoth he) I ceafe at your requcft. 
 
 Depart bafe Rafcals, all but two, be gone: 
 
 But Villians, you did bind her for the refl, 
 
 And ftruck them with his fword (the fcabbard on) 
 
 That down to ground they fell, making this 'fcufe, 
 
 My Lord we only kept her for thy ufc. 
 
 Then on his Steed he lets the Lady ride, 
 
 To feek her Lord, whom Ihe had left diftreft : 
 
 And Gtiy unto that place became her guide, 
 
 Where coming, they did find him careful drefl: 
 
 For in their abfence came a Hermit by. 
 
 Which to his bleeding wounds did falve apply. 
 
 Terry and Ofile, in their joys abound, 
 
 And gratefully to Guy all things do give : 
 
 Be thou (faid they) in life and death renown'd. 
 
 Whom we will honour, while we breathing live ; 
 
 Hold, here's my hand (quoth Terry) worthy Gjiy, 
 
 In fight for thee, I will be proud to die. 
 
 vS Guy takes Earl Terries Fathers part, c^ 
 
 ^ and kills the dnke his foe. ^ 
 
 ^ With Szi'ord de/lroys a cruel Boar. ^ 
 
 ^ prevailing danger fo. p\ 
 
 CANTO VIII. 
 
 NOw Titans Horfes with his fiery Carr, 
 Had brought the day to darknefs in the Weft, 
 And Ve/per, the filver fhining Starr, 
 Which doth adorn the Skies at evening beft 
 
 Ap. 
 
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 The Famous Hijlory 
 
 Appear'd as bright as Cynthia in her Sphere, 
 
 To welcome fable-nights approaching near. 
 
 When Terry, Guy and Ofile wanting guide. 
 
 Did ftay about the unfrequenting Wood, 
 
 Hearing the Savage noife on every fide, 
 
 Of Beafts that thirfted after human blood, 
 
 As Boars, and Bears, and Lyons, and the like, 
 
 Which to their hearts did fome amazement ftrike. 
 
 On every fide they caft a heedful eye, 
 
 Still doubting on a fudden, fome furprife; 
 
 At length t\vo armed men they did efpy, 
 
 That alfo liften to thofe fearful cries. 
 
 Each had his fword in hand, being ready drawn, 
 
 Knowing that place did yield no dogs would fawn, 
 
 Coming more near, Sir Heraiid was the one. 
 
 The other even as dearly Terry's friend, 
 
 Who with embracements made their gladnefs known, 
 
 And then the Earl demanded to what end 
 
 His loving Coufin pafs'd the defart fo? 
 
 My Lord (quoth he) to bring the news of wo. 
 
 Thy noble Father is befieged now 
 
 In his ftrong Cafble, by Duke Ottens Power; 
 
 Who hath Protefted by a folemn vow, 
 
 About his ears he will pull down the Tower, 
 
 In a revenge that thou his Love haft got, 
 
 He fwears th}- Father's life efcapeth not. 
 
 His Love (quoth Teny) prithee Ofile fpeak, 
 
 Acquaint this worthy man with thy fouls thought 
 
 Have I procur'd thee any faith to break.-* 
 
 Or been the inftigator unto ought 
 
 That is unjuR: in righteous Heavens fight.'' 
 
 Ever, (quoth Ofile) thou haft been upright. 
 
 That wretch would force my love from thee away, 
 
 In claiming that I ne're intend to give; 
 
 I will be thine until my dying day. 
 
 Thou flialt enjoy me all the hours I live: 
 
 A )id when I alter this determination. 
 
 Let God and man hold me in deflation. 
 
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 of Guy Earl of Warwick. 
 
 Well fpoke (faid Guy) Lady be conftant ever, 
 And honour's blemifli then thou necdft not doubt; 
 Keep Love's foundation firm, alter it never, 
 It is for Love I range the World about : 
 And do expofe my life to mortal danger 
 In this exiled ftate, an unknown ftranger. 
 But Terry, wherefore are they looks fo fad ? 
 Thou haft thy Love in perfon to embrace; 
 As far as England mine is to be had, 
 And many years I have not fecn her face: 
 It were enough to bring my hopes to end, 
 But that my patience is a trufty friend. 
 My Lord (faid Terry) know you not my grief, 
 And heard this meffenger relate the caufe? 
 Oh my diftreffed Father wants relief! 
 I were a Rebel unto Nature's Laws, 
 Not to condole with him in his extream, 
 Making his trouble my true forrows Theam. 
 If that he be all (quoth he) thou art to blame, 
 There is no caufe to fpend a figh thereon: 
 rie terrific Duke Otteii with my name, 
 Let him but hear I come, and he'l be gone. 
 Something between us may not be forgot, 
 He felt my fword in France, but lik'd it not. 
 Since that, againft my life a plot he laid. 
 By Villains that furpriz'd me in a wood. 
 But treachery with vengeance was repaid ; 
 Who ever knew a Traitor's end prove good ; 
 Accurfed haps attend them evermore: 
 In Brazen Bull Peril/us did firft roar. 
 I will go with thee to defend thy Father, 
 (For the oppreffed I have vow'd to right) 
 And reafon moveth it, fo much the rather 
 Mine own abufes therewith to requite: 
 This opportunity we'l not omit. 
 In that occafion falleth out fo fit. 
 Let's haften on with fpeed unto the place, 
 I Preventing mifcheif e're too far it run, 
 
 G Take 
 
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 The Famous Hilary 
 
 ,Takc hold on Time before he turns his face, 
 I Good proveth beft, when it is fooneft done; 
 Go hke Eneas with a fihal joy, 
 To fetch thine old AncJiifes out of Troy. 
 Couragious Knight (quoth Terjy) thy bold heart 
 Connot be daunted, I perceive, with fear; 
 Compos'd with Mars his Element thou art, 
 Of powerful limbs, to manage fword and fpear; 
 My Melancholy thou haft banifh'd hence, 
 And with ftrong hope arm'd me in recompence. 
 Now all in poft they fpeed themfelves away. 
 And in fliort time unto the Caftle come, 
 Wheereas Duke Ottea and his forces lay, 
 Relying on his Souldiers ample fumme; 
 But when the Captains of Gufs coming knew. 
 They fled by night, and never bad adieu. 
 This was difcouragement to all the reft, 
 To fee their Leaders thus give ground and flie. 
 Yet the Duke moft refolute proteft, 
 If each man in the Caftle were a Gjiy, 
 He would not leave it bafely and retire; 
 Though life be dear, yet honours place is higher. 
 Terry (quoth Guy) we muft not tedious be; 
 Experience often hath my Tutor been, 
 And taught, that when advantage I do fee, 
 To faften on occafion and begin ; 
 The enemy by fear himfelf fubdues, 
 Add force to that, and vi6lory enfues. 
 We will not make our prifon in this place, 
 As long as there is field-room to be got ; 
 'Tis my defire to meet the Duke's good Grace, 
 And combat him, becaufe he loves me not, 
 If that you will not leave this houfe of ftone, 
 I'le leave you all, and go my felf alone. 
 And with thefe words Heraud and he depart, 
 Which when the Caftle-foldiers did perceive, 
 They gave a ftiout. Our General thou art, 
 Thy honourable fteps we will not leave; 
 
 We 
 
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 o/Quy £^<^r/^ Warwick. 
 
 Wc are rcfolvcd to attend thee ftill, 
 
 Let Fortune ufe us, e'en as fortune will. 
 
 And thus mofh valiant they do march along, 
 
 Giving the onfet, fearlefs to their foe ; 
 
 iMaking thofe multitudes that feem fo ftrong. 
 
 Retire themfelves with flaughtered overthrow; 
 
 But when the Duke perceiv'd his Soldiers flyc, 
 
 Perifh (quoth he) bafe Villians, here I'le dye. 
 
 Where is this Englifli man that haunts my Ghoft, 
 
 And thus purfueth me from place to place? 
 
 I challenge him to come and leave the Hoft, 
 
 And meet with refolution face to face: 
 
 Let equal envy make his equal match, 
 
 All controverfies we will foon difpatch. 
 
 Agreed (quoth Gu)>) proud Foe, I yield confent: 
 
 Repent thy wrongs, and make thy confcience clear; 
 
 I For thou haft liv'd to fee thy honour fpent. 
 
 Which worthy men of all things hold moft dear: 
 
 The noble-minded cenfure him with fliame 
 
 That lives to fee the death of his good name. 
 
 Then toward each other they did manly make. 
 
 And break their Launces very violent; 
 
 Which being done, their fwords in hand they take,. 
 Fighting untill great ftore of blood was fpent : 
 For envy did the Duke's keen weapon whet ; 
 And on Guy's fword revenge an edge did fet; 
 At length through lofs of blood the Duke fell down 
 And faid, Now fond felicity farewel; 
 I am betray'd by Fortune's angry frown, 
 And this experience to the world doth tell, 
 There's nothing conftant that the Earth contains. 
 Death deals with Monarchs, as with fimple Swains. 
 Bewitching vanities, feducing blind us, 
 Greatnefs hath great accounts thereon depending. 
 As Death doth leave us, fo fhall Judgment find us, 
 There is no peace unto a happy ending: 
 My dying hour yields more repenting grace, 
 Than in my life I ever could embrace. 
 
 G 2 Th' im- 
 
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 The Famo7ts Hijlory 
 
 Th' immortal foul doth with thefe words depart, 
 And leaves the breathlefs body did contain it : 
 While woful paffions do afifH6l Giiy's heart, 
 Now wifliing to himfelf he had not flain it: 
 \Fov true hmnility compaffion Jltozvs, 
 ' To fee afflinion overburden woes. 
 Guy flieath'd his fword, and faid, remain thou there 
 Until I do arrive on Englands fhore ; 
 No further quarrel to the world I bear, 
 For love oi Phcelice I will bleed no more; 
 From her I have been too too long away, 
 And will return to challenge Soldiers pay. 
 So thence he rode to find Sir Heraud out, 
 Making his journey through a defart place, 
 Which was obfcure, environ'd round about 
 With fhady trees that hid bright Phoebus face, 
 Where fuddenly he met the hugeft Boar, 
 That ever mortal eyes beheld before. 
 The Beafl came at him moft exceeding fell, 
 Which he perceiving, ftands upon his guard, 
 And doth avoid thofe dreadful Tusks right well, 
 Laying upon his fwinifli head fo hard. 
 That dead he left him, who had many flain. 
 For forth that Wood no man came back again. 
 When this was done, Heraud he overtakes, 
 And tells him what a Chriftmas Brawn he flew. 
 Then with his purpofe him acquainted makes, 
 Which was to bid all foreign parts adieu. 
 And fee the heavenly obje6l of his heart; 
 Heraud confents, and they forthwith depart. 
 
 To 
 
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 of Guy £'«r/ <?/ Warwick. 
 
 To England cof/^es viclorious Guy SC 
 
   ^^ and doth fair VhxXicQ. ^ved; ^ 
 
 ^ ^/ York/;'.f^;//z>/^Athelftone S? 
 
 ^.^^ rt dreadful Dragon's head. — +- 
 
 CANTO IX. 
 
 ASfifted now by nimble winged Time, 
 Gi/y fhapes his courfe for England, and doth leave 
 The bold adventures of each foreign Clime, 
 Love's juft reward from Phcelice to receive: 
 As Hercules twelve labours being paft, 
 Found time for Dianert's love at laft. 
 Heraud and Gny no fooncr do arrive, 
 But news thereof unto the King was brought. 
 Who heard of all before they did atchieve ; 
 Which made him much defirous in his thought 
 To fee fuch fubje6ls, matchlefs men alone. 
 In honouring England, and King Athelflone. 
 To York they go, for there the King was then, 
 To whom J;hey did moft humble duty fliow ; 
 Welcome (quoth he) renowned Martial men; 
 My Princely love upon you I beftow; 
 Your fortunate fuccefs contentment breeds. 
 Fame came before and brought us home your deeds. 
 G^iy, thou haft laid a heavy hand we hear 
 Upon the necks of Pagans, Infidels, 
 And fent them home by fatal Sword and Spear, 
 To horrors vault, where unbelievers dwell; 
 Devouring Beafls thou Hkewife haft deftroy'd. 
 That human Creatures fearful have annoy'd. 
 Yet worthy man, I think thou ne'r did flay, 
 Of all thofe Monfters terrible and wild, 
 
 A crea- 
 
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 The Famotis Hijlory 
 
 A creature more cruel, than at this day 
 
 Deftroys what e're he meets, man, woman, child. 
 
 Cattle and all, which no man may withftand, 
 
 A dreadful Dragon in Northumberland. 
 
 I fpeak not this to animate thee on. 
 
 And hazard life at fetting foot on fhore; 
 
 For divers to deftroy this beaft have gone. 
 
 But to their Friends never returned more: 
 
 No, I exprefs how happy thou haft been, 
 
 To free like fears that other men were in. 
 
 Dread Lord (quoth he) as I am EngliJJi Knight, 
 
 And faithful unto God, true to my King. 
 
 I will go fee if that fame beaft dare bite, 
 
 For to your Grace his head I mean to bring: 
 
 I found his fellow with a Lyon fighting, 
 
 And made him leave both fcratching and his biting. 
 
 And as I dealt with him, I'le deal with this: 
 
 Only I do befeech your Roynl Grace, 
 
 Command me fome dire6lion where he is. 
 
 And to your Court I'le bring his ugly face, 
 
 Or your mild favour let me never fee; 
 
 Dragon or Devil whatfoe're he be. 
 
 So taking humble leave, away he rides 
 
 Unto Nortlmniherlaud, to find the beaft. 
 
 Having a dozen Knights which were his guides, 
 
 And brought him where the Dragon held his feaft 
 
 Like Canibal, that feeds on flefli of men : 
 
 Behold (quoth they to Giiy) yon Cave's his Den. 
 
 It is enough, faid he, do you remain. 
 
 And leave me to go find out Hidrds head, 
 
 That never fhall devour a man again, 
 
 Who with fo many bodies have been fed : 
 
 Here Gentlemen if you will pleafe to ftay, 
 
 Sit on your Horfes, and behold our fray. 
 
 Coming unto the Cave, the Dragon fpies him, 
 
 And forth he ftalks with lofty fpeckled breft 
 
 Of dreadful form : as foon as ere Gtiy eyes him, 
 
 His Launce he fpeedy fet unto his wreft; 
 
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 of Guy Earl of Warwick. 
 
 Then fpurs to Horfe, and then at Dragon makes, 
 That bearing ground at the encounter fliakes. 
 Then very h"ghtly Guy returns his Horfe, 
 And comes up on him with redoubled miglit: 
 The Dragon meets him with refifting force, 
 And like a Reed, his Launcc in two did bite: 
 Nay then (quoth Guy) if to fuch bites you fall, 
 I have a tool to pick your teeth withal. 
 Then drew his Sword (a keen and maffie blade) 
 And fiercely ftruck with furious blows fo fell, 
 That many wide and bloody wounds he made, 
 Which caus'd the Dragon yawn, like mouth of hell; 
 Roaring aloud with a moft hideous found, 
 And with his claws, all rent and tore the ground. 
 Impatient of the fmart he did fuftain, 
 He thought with wings to raife himfelf aloft, 
 But with a ftroke Guy brought him down again, 
 And ply'd him with the edge of fteel fo oft, 
 That down he fell in dirty blood bewray'd ; 
 And forth his wide devouring Oven bewray'd: 
 A flake of fire feemed to iffue thence, 
 While Guy was hewing off his ugly head. 
 Now fiend (quoth he) thou haft thy recompence 
 For all the human blood thy jaws have flied; 
 Upon a part of this fame broken fpear, 
 Thy filthy face unto the King I'le bear. 
 The Knights (with joy exceeding) take a view 
 Of that fame fearful creature, ftrange of fhapc: 
 Admiring at his ugly form of hiew, 
 With wonderment, that mortal could efcape 
 Thofe teeth and claws, fo dreadful, fliarp and long, 
 Compos'd by nature in a Beaft fo flrong. 
 When they had fix'd the head upon a fpear, 
 And meafur'd out the bodies length dire6l : 
 Unto the King at Lincoln, they it bear. 
 Who Guys return with longing did expect. 
 God fliield (quoth he) and fave me from all evil, 
 'Here is a face may well out-face the Devil: 
 
 What
 
 of Guy Earl of Warwick. 
 
 What flaring Eyes of burning-glafs be thofe 
 That might (alive) two flaming beacons feem? 
 What fcales of Hamefs arm that crooked nofe 
 And teeth? none fuch had Cerberus I deem. 
 What yawning mouth, and forked tongue is there 
 That being dead, may make the living fear? 
 Viclorious Knight, thy a6tions we admire, 
 And place thee highly in our Kingly love; 
 Throughout the fpacious Orb thy Fame afpire, 
 More lofty than the Supream Sphere doth move: 
 jTo the fucceeding ages of thy Land, 
 I will remember thy viclorious Hand. 
 Which fhall be thus, the Monfter's pi6lure wrought 
 On cloth of Arras artificial well; 
 And unto VVarivick we will have it brought, 
 There to remain, and after-ages tell, 
 That worthy Guy, a man of matchlefs llrength, 
 Deftroy'd a Dragon thirty foot in length. 
 And place his head here on the Caftle wall, 
   For memory, till years do ruin it : 
 And Nobles make triumphant Feftival, 
 Afford our Knight all honour doth befit; 
 Troys He6lors dead, and can no more atcheive, 
 But England's Heclor ftill remains alive. 
 By this report (the only Linguift living) 
 Hath been with Phcelice, for to make her glad, 
 Such Fame and Glory to her Lover giving. 
 As never greater any Worthy had; 
 Tells all the deeds of wonder he hath done. 
 From the firft action that his hand begun. 
 PJiculicc impatient of his wiflied fight, 
 Speeds towards Lincoln, like light Sahnacis, 
 Where joyfully fhe entertains her Knight 
 With Jnnds kind embrace, and Veni's kifs : 
 Gjiy with requital makes his gladnefs known, 
 And in his arms he now enjoys his own. 
 Forgetful Love, and too to flow (quoth flie) 
 I f ear'd thou didft not mind thy deareft friend ; 
 
 What 
 
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 q/Guy Bar/ q/ Warwick. 
 
 What, feek a Dragon, ere thou look for mc; 
 
 And hazard life, before thou come or fend 
 
 To know if I remain in happy ftate? 
 
 Some jealous woman would fuppofe 'twere hate. 
 
 But fure I do not, though I fpeak my heart. 
 
 And wifli I had been firft thou faw'ft on fhore : 
 
 Guj'l Welcome to thy PhcBlice now thou art: 
 
 Thou never flialt go forth a fighting more: 
 
 No, thou haft fought too much, thy looks bewray: 
 
 Stern countenance hath ftoln thy fmiles away. 
 
 But love will learn thee (Love) to change thy face; 
 
 And frame it as at firft when I did chufe it, 
 
 'Thou haft almoft forgotten to embrace; 
 
 I like that well, it feems thou didft not ufe it 
 
 In Foreign parts abroad, where thou haft been; 
 
 But that loft leffon thou muft new besin. 
 
 I will (quoth he) dear Love, and ply my book. 
 
 And kifs my Leffon on thy Coral lip : 
 
 Tell me but only when I am miflook. 
 
 In reading raflily, if I over-skip, 
 
 Or be too negligent in taking pain, 
 
 Why turn me back to conn my gear again. 
 
 But Lady, one exception I will make. 
 
 What line foever you do put me to. 
 
 The Horn-book of all other I'le forfake: 
 
 For willingly I would not have to do 
 
 With that Crofs-row, crofs upon many, when 
 
 Women doth teach it unto married men. 
 
 Kind Sir (quoth flie) confent, Flo never chufe it, 
 
 It fits two forts, a Courtezan, a Child; 
 
 Once as the latter fimply I did ufe it, 
 
 But for the other, rather be beguil'd. 
 
 Than to deceive, the fecond Horn-book's naught 
 
 Teach it not me, and it fliall ne're be taught: 
 
 Guy fmil'd and faid, then let us Warzvick fee, 
 
 Of all the world the place that I love beft, 
 
 Becaufe it had the bringing up of thee ; 
 
 And there firft with thy beauty I was bleft. 
 
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 The Fmnoits Hiftory 
 
 I love the Caftle, and the Caflle-Ground. 
 Where firft thy Venus-face alone I found. 
 Let's haften on to hear this facred voice, 
 / Guy fake Pha^lice fo my ivedded Wife; 
 And thou repeat, / likeivife am tJiy choice, 
 Till death depart ?is, evn fo long as life: 
 And then the next will be, God give tis joy, 
 And foul my Father's Heir a gallant Boy. 
 
 !^ TJie Marriage is foleimiis' d,   
 
 ^ But aftter four days, o- 
 
 ^ Guy Penance vows, and Pilgrim like — - 
 
 ^ From England goes his ivays. ^ 
 
 mm\^m\m\m\m\m\m\m 
 
 CANTO IX. 
 
 THe happy day (that Lovers long expect) 
 Is now obtain'd, to give defire reft: 
 And all the honours Hymen can effect, 
 He frank beftows to grace the Wedding feaft. 
 For Athelflovic and his renowned Queen, 
 At this great Nuptial in their pomp were feen : 
 The Nobles rich and coftly attire, 
 With worthy Knights and Gentlemen befide, 
 Ladies of Honour (as their lives require) 
 Attend upon the beauteous fair-fac'd Bride. 
 There wanted nothing (wit of man could find) 
 To pleafe the eye, or to content the mind. 
 Mafques, mid-night Revels, Tilt and Turnament, 
 A6ling of ancient Stories, ftately Shows, 
 Banquets might give great Jupiter content ; 
 Where Cups of Nectar plenty overflows, 
 Abundant all things, with a plenty hand, 
 As if a King himfelf fliould feaft the Land. 
 
 Soon 
 
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 of Guy Earl of Warwick. 
 
 Soon after all thefe things were confummatc, 
 
 Earl Roband {Phcslice worthy Father) dies; 
 
 And to his Son bequeaths the whole Eftate 
 
 Of Earldom, Lordfln'p, all his Land is Guys; 
 
 Who is created Earl of VVariuick then, 
 
 In Honour's rank, with England's Noble men, 
 
 But in the Glory of his high applaud. 
 
 Enjoying all that did partake delight; 
 
 When every tongue his Fame and Fortune's laud, 
 
 Himfelf converts the Sun-fliinc days to night; 
 
 Bethinking what the world may judge be thought, 
 
 And deeming all but vain that he had sought. 
 
 Oft would he fit and meditate alone, 
 
 In looking back what fteps his youth had trod: 
 
 Then to himfelf wirh fighs and grievious grone, 
 
 Cry Pardon me, thou juft incenfed God; 
 
 I have done nothing for to purchafe Grace, 
 
 But fpent my time about a womans face. 
 
 For Beauty bloody through the world I ran. 
 
 In pride of heart preferring Phcslice Feature : 
 
 For beauty I liave ended many a man, 
 
 Hating all other for one mortal creature: 
 
 For Beauty I have pawn'd my utmoft power; 
 
 But for my fins not fpent one weeping hour. 
 
 My Nunquani /era I will now begin. 
 
 And vow to fpend the remnant of my days 
 
 In contrite penance for my former fin, 
 
 That God may pardon all the erring ways 
 
 Which flefli and body were deceived by; 
 
 Unto the world I will go learn to dye. 
 
 Let me be cenfur'd even as mortals pleafc, 
 
 I'le pleafe my God in all things may be done; 
 
 Ambitious pride hath been my youths difeafe ; 
 
 Tie teach Age meeknefs e're my Glafs be run: 
 
 And change my voice, wealth, beauty, world, farewel, 
 
 To purchafe Heaven I will go pafs through Hell. 
 
 Plicelice perceives his melancholly ftate, 
 
 And coming to him, doth moft mildly woo ; 
 
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 The Famotts Hijlory 
 
 My Lord (quoth fhe) why are you chang'd of late? 
 
 As I fliare joy, let me bear forrow too: 
 
 If I in ought have mov'd you to offence, 
 
 I will with tears perform due recompence. 
 
 No, my dear Love (quoth Gity) no caufe in thee, 
 
 'Tis with my felf I difcontented ftrive : 
 
 By light of Grace my Nature's faults I fee, 
 
 That am as dead, although I feem alive : 
 
 PhcElice, my fms, my countlefs fms appear, 
 
 Crying Repent, thy guilty confciencc clear. 
 
 I muft deal with thee as Bavarus dealt 
 
 (A Prince oi Rome) with Sygunda his wife, 
 
 Who (from a deep impreffion he felt) 
 
 Vow'd Chaftity perpetual all his life. 
 
 Intreating thee (even as thou lov'ft my foul) 
 
 To pardon me, not urging by controul. 
 
 Haft thou not heard what Ethclfrida did, 
 
 A Chriftian woman fometimes Englands Queen; 
 
 Is Edelthrudis a6l of chaft life hid, 
 
 A Princefs likewife, and matchlefs doth feem ; 
 
 The firft with child, no more of luft would taft. 
 
 The fecond caus'd two husbands both live chaft. 
 
 And canft not thou (the Phoenix of a Realm) 
 
 By imitation v/in immortal praife ; 
 
 Leaving thy Vertues and admired Theam, 
 
 To the fucceeding Age of Iron-days.-' 
 
 I know thou canft, thy greater part's Divine, 
 
 Where moft is carnal, 'twill to flefh incline. 
 
 Thou didft procure (although I do excufe it) 
 
 My pride by Conquefts to attain thy love: 
 
 God gave me valour, I did vain abufe it ; 
 
 My heart and thoughts afpired far above 
 
 The Crowns and Scepters of moft potent Kings, 
 
 I held their Diadems inferior things. 
 
 But now I gather in a total fum, 
 
 Such follies, and condemn them all to die: 
 
 A man of other fafliion I'le become; 
 
 Some better travels for my foul to try, 
 
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 of Guy Earl o/\\[3.\'\N'\Qk. 
 
 Not as before, in armour on my Steed, 
 
 But in a Gown of graj^, a Palmers Weed. 
 
 Obfcure my journey, for Fie take no leave, 
 
 But only leave my cndlefs love to thee: 
 
 Here is my ring, this memory receive. 
 
 And fwear the fame, to make thee think on me. 
 
 Let me have thine which for thy fake I'le keep. 
 
 Till death clofe up thefe eyes with his dead fleep, 
 
 When this was fpoke, how flie did wring her hands 
 
 With fighs and tears, may be well deemed much; 
 
 Yet wondrous meekly, nothing countermands; 
 
 For the devotion of that age was fuch, 
 
 To hold them bleffed, could themfelvs retire 
 
 To folitude, and leave the worlds dehre. 
 
 Now is his Princely Clothing laid away, 
 
 Wherein he glitter'd like the glorious fun; 
 
 And his befl habit, homely Counter3^-gray, 
 
 Such as the poor plain people term home-fpun, 
 
 A Staff, a Scrip, a Scollop-fliell in's hat. 
 
 Not to be known, nor once admired at 
 
 And thus with penfive heart, and doleful tears, 
 
 He leaves the faireft Creature England h.2id; 
 
 Who in her Face a Map of forrow wears, 
 
 A countenance compos'd all mournful, fad ; 
 
 Like unto one had banifli'd all delight, 
 
 Wifliing for flumbers of eternal night. 
 
 Gny journeys, towards the fanclified Ground, 
 
 Whereas fometimes the Jezvs fair City flood: 
 
 In which our Saviour's Sacred Head was crown'd, 
 
 And where for finful men he fhed his blood : 
 
 To fee the Sepulcher was his intent, 
 
 The Tomb that JofepJi unto Jefus lent. 
 
 With tedious miles he tir'd his weary feet, 
 
 And paffed defart places full of danger; 
 
 At laft with a moft woful Wight did meet, 
 
 A man that unto forrow was no fbranger. 
 
 For he had fifteen Sons made captive all 
 
 To flavifh bondage in extreemeft Thrall. 
 
 Who 
 
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 Who in a caftle, which he held and chain'd them, 
 
 Guy queftion'd where; and underftands at lengrh. 
 
 The place not far; lend me thy fword (quoth he) 
 
 rie lend my man-hood all thy Sons to free. 
 
 AVith that he goes, and lays upon the door, 
 
 Like him that fays, I muft and will come in: 
 
 The Giant never was fo rouz'd before, 
 
 For no fuch knocking at his gate had been ; 
 
 So takes his Club and Keys, and cometh out, 
 
 Staring with ireful Countenance about. 
 
 Sirrah (quoth he) what bufinefs haft thou here.'' 
 
 Art come to feaft the Crows about thefe Walls .^ 
 
 Didft never hear, no ranfom could him clear, 
 
 That in the compafs of my fury falls .^ 
 
 For making me to take a Porters pains, 
 
 With this fame Club I will dafli out thy brains. 
 
 Sirrah (quoth G^iy) y'are quarrelfome I fee, 
 
 Choler and you feem very near of kin : 
 
 Dangerous at the Club be-like you be, 
 
 I have been better arm'd, though now go thin : 
 
 But fliew thy utmoft hate, enlarge thy fprite, 
 
 Here is a weapon that muft do me right. 
 
 So draws his fword, falutes him with the fame 
 
 About the head, the flioulders, and the fide. 
 
 While his erected Club did death proclaim, 
 
 Standing with huge Coloffiis fpacious ftride: 
 
 Putting forth vigour to his knotty beam, 
 
 That like a furnace he did fmoak extream : 
 
 But on the ground he fpent his ftrokes in vain. 
 
 For Guy was nimble to avoid them ftill: 
 
 And ever e're he heav'd his Club again, 
 
 Did brufli his plated Coat againft his will: 
 
 At fuch advantage he would never fail 
 
 To bang him foundly in his fliirt of Mail. 
 
 At length through thirft Amarant feeble grew. 
 
 And faid to Giiy, As th' art of humane race, 
 
 Shew it in this, Give Nature's wants their due; 
 
 Let me but go and drink in yonder place: 
 
 Thou 
 
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 of Guy Earl o/VJ^rWxcV. 
 
 Thou canfl not yield unto a fmallcr thing, 
 Than to grant hTc tliat's given by the fpring. 
 1 grant thee leave (Ouoth Gny) go drink thy laft 
 To pledge the Dragon, and the Savage Boar: 
 Succeed the Tragedies which they have paft, 
 But never think to drink cokl water more, 
 
 A Giant called Amarant, 
 
 Guy valiantly dejiroyes; 
 
 Whereby ivroiig'd Ladies^ captive Knights, 
 
 Their liberty enjoys. 
 
 Drink 
 
 6i
 
 The Famous Hijlory 
 
 Drink deep to death, and after that Caroufe, 
 Bid him receive thee in his earthen houfe. 
 So to the fpring he goes, and flakes his thirft, 
 Taking the water in extreamly, hke 
 A wrecked Ship, that on fome Rock is burft, 
 When forced bulk againft the Stones doth ftrike ; 
 Scooping it in fo faft with both his hands 
 That Guy admiring to behold it ftands. 
 Come on (qnoth he) let us to work again, 
 Thou art about thy Liquor over long, 
 The Fifli that in the River do remain, 
 Will want thereby, thy drinking doth them wrong; 
 But I would fee their fatisfa6lion made, 
 With Giants blood they muft and fliall be paid. 
 Villian (quoth Aviarant) I'le crufli thee ftraight, 
 Thy Life fliall pay thy daring tongues offence; 
 This Club (which is about an hundred weight) 
 Is Death's Commiffion to difpatch thee hence, 
 Drefs thee for Ravens diet I muft needs, 
 i5 And break thy bones as they were made of reeds. 
 
 Incenfed much by thefe bold Pagans boafts. 
 Which worthy Guy could ill indure to hear : 
 He hews upon thofe big fupporting pofts, 
 That like two pillars did the body bear; 
 Ainarant (for them wounds) in choler grow.s, 
 And defperately at Gtiy his Club he throws. 
 Which did direftly on his body light ; 
 So violent, and weighty therewithall, 
 That down to ground on fudden came the Knight, 
 And e're he could recover from the fall, 
 The Giant got a Club again in's fift. 
 And ftruck a ftroke that wonderfully mift. 
 Traytor (quoth Gti}) thy falfehood I'le repay, 
 This Coward-a6l, to intercept my blood; 
 Says Ainarant, I'le murther any way. 
 With enemies all vantages are good ; 
 Oh! Could I poyfon in thy noftrils blow, 
 Thou fliould'dft be fure I would difpatch thee fo. 
 
 Tis 
 
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 of Guy Earl of Warwick. 
 
 Tis well (faid Guy) thy honeft thoughts appear, 
 
 Within that beaflly bulk do Devils dwell, 
 
 Which arc thy Tenants while thou liveft here, 
 
 But will be Land-lords when thou com'ffc in Hell : 
 
 Vile mifcreant, prepare thee for their Den ; 
 
 Inhuman Monfbcr, hateful unto men. 
 
 But breathe thy felf a time, v/hile I go drink. 
 
 For flaming Pluvhus with his fiery eye 
 
 Torments me fo with burning heat, I think 
 
 My thirft would ferve to drink an Ocean dry : 
 
 Forbear a little, as I dealt with thee. 
 
 Quoth A iiiaranf, thou haft no fool of me ; 
 
 No filly Wretch, my Father taught more wit, 
 
 How I fliould ufe fuch enemies as thou: 
 
 By all my gods I do rejoyce at it, 
 
 To undeftand that thirft conftrains thee now: 
 
 For all the treafure that the world contains, 
 
 One drop of water fliall not cool thy veins. 
 
 Relieve my Foe! it were a mad mans part, 
 
 Refrefli an adverfary to my wrong! 
 
 If thou imagine this, a child thou art: 
 
 No fellow, I have known the world too long 
 
 To be fo fimple; now I know thy want, 
 
 A minutes fpace of breathing I'le not grant. 
 
 And with thefe words heaving aloft his Club, 
 
 Into the air he fwings the fame about; 
 
 Then fliakes his locks, and doth his temples rub, 
 
 And like the Cyclops in his pride did ftrut. 
 
 Sirrah (faid he) I have you at a lift, 
 
 You are now come unto your latefl fliift. 
 
 Perifii for ever, with this ftroke I fend thee, 
 
 (A medicine will do thy thirft much good) 
 
 Take thou no care for drink before I end thee, 
 
 And then we'l have caroufes of thy blood; 
 
 Here's at thee with a Butcher's down-right blow, 
 
 To pleafe my fury with thine ovethrow. 
 
 Infernal, falfe, obdurate Fiend {Guy faid) 
 
 That feem'ft an Imp of cruelty from Hell : 
 
 I In- 
 
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 The Famotts Hilary 
 
 Ingrateful Monfter, fincc thou haft deny'd, 
 
 The things to me wherein I us'd thee well : 
 
 With more rev^enge than e're my fword did make. 
 
 On thy accurfcd head revenge I'lc take. 
 
 Thy Giants longitude fliall fliorter flirink, 
 
 Except thy Sun fcorcht skin be weapon-proof; 
 
 Farewel my thirft, I do difdain to drink; 
 
 Streams keep your water to your own behoof: 
 
 Or let wild beafts be welcome thereunto, 
 
 With thofe pearl drops I will not have to do. 
 
 Hold Tyrant, take a tafte of my good will, 
 
 For thus I do begin my bloody bout; 
 
 You cannot chufe but like the greeting ill. 
 
 It is not that fame Club will bear you out; 
 
 And take this payment on thy fliagged crown ; 
 
 A bloAv that brought him with a veng'ance down. 
 
 Then Guy fct foot upon the Monftcrs breft, 
 
 And from his flioulders did his head divide; 
 
 Which with a yawning mouth did gape, unbleft. 
 
 No Dragons jaws were ever feen more wide 
 
 To open and to fhut, till life was fpcnt; 
 
 So Gjiy took's keys, and to the Caftle went. 
 
 Where many woful captives he did find, 
 
 That had been tryed with extremities, 
 
 Whom he in friendly manner did unbind. 
 
 And reafon with them of their miferies: 
 
 Each told a tale Avith tears and fighs, and cryes. 
 
 All weeping to him with complaining eyes: 
 
 There tender Ladies in dark Dungeon lay. 
 
 That were furprifed in the defert Wood ; 
 
 And had no other diet every day, 
 
 Than flefli of humane creatures for their food: 
 
 Some with their Lovers bodies had been fed. 
 
 And in their Wombs, their Husbands buried. 
 
 Now he bethinks him of his coming there, 
 
 T' enlarge the wronged brethren from their woes; 
 
 And as he fearched, both great clamours hear, 
 
 By which fad founds direction, on he goes, 
 
 Until 
 
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 of Guy TS'i^r/^ Warwick. 
 
 Untill he finds a darkfome obfcure Gate, 
 Arm'd ftrongly over all with iron-plate: 
 That he unlocks, and enters, where appears 
 The ftrangeft obje6l that he ever faw^. 
 Men, that with famifhment of many years, 
 Were like deaths pi6lure which the Painters draw. 
 Divers of them were hanged by each thumb. 
 Others head downward, by the middle fome. 
 With diligence he takes them from the walls, 
 With Liberty their Thraldom to acquaint: 
 Then the perplexed Knight, their Father calls, 
 And fays, Receive thy fons, though poor and faint, 
 I promis'd you their lives, accept of that. 
 But did not warrant you they fliould be fat. 
 The Caflle I do give thee, here's the keys, 
 Where Tyranny for many years did dwell : 
 Procure the gentle tender Ladies eafe. 
 For pity fake ufe wronged women well. 
 Men eas'ly may revenge the deeds men do. 
 But poor weak women have no flrength thereto. 
 The good old man, even overjoy 'd with this, 
 Fell on the ground, and would have kift Giiy't feet, 
 Father (quoth he) refrain fo bafe a kifs. 
 For age to honour youth I hold unmeet : 
 Ambitious pride hath hurt me all it can, 
 I go to mortifie a fmful man. 
 
 I 2 Guy
 
 The Famous Hijlory 
 
 ^ Guy on his journey dotJi proceed, K. 
 
 -^ with pain fid Pilgrims life, ^ 
 
 7^ F FZ-Z/t' Warwicks Countefs lives in tears ^ 
 ^ a chafi and loyal Wife. ^ 
 
 CANTO XI. 
 
 Ehold the man that fought contentions out, 
 'Whofe recreation was in angry arms, 
 And for his Ven/is rang'd the world about, 
 To find out dreadful combats, fierce alarms : 
 From former difpofition alienate, 
 Shuns all occafion may procure debate. 
 In his own wrongs by vow he will not ftrike, 
 Let injury impofc what ftrife can do, 
 Abufes fliall not force him to diflike, 
 For he hath now fram'd Nature therunto: 
 And taken patience by the hand for's guide, 
 To lead his thoughts where meeknefs doth abide. 
 No worldly joy can give his mind content; 
 Delights are gone, as they had never been : 
 His only care is, how he may repent 
 His fpending youth about the ferving fm; 
 And fafhion Age to look like contrite forrow, 
 That little time to come, which life doth borrow. 
 His looks were fad, complexion pale and wan. 
 His diet of the meaneft, hard and fpare: 
 His life he led like a Religious man. 
 His habit poor and homely, thin and bare; 
 His dignities and honour were forgot. 
 His Warzvicks Earldom he regarded not. 
 Sometimes he would fo fearch into a grave, 
 And there he finds a rotten dead mans skull; 
 
 And 
 
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 of Guy Earl of Warwick. 
 
 And with the fame a conference would have, 
 
 Examining each vanity at full, 
 
 And then himfelf would anfwer for the head, 
 
 His own objection in the dead mans ftcad. 
 
 If thou haft been fomc Monarch, where's thy crown, 
 
 Or who in fear of thy ftern looks do ftand? 
 
 Death haft made Conqucft of my great renown, 
 
 My golden Scepter, in a fleflily hand, 
 
 Is taken from me by another King, 
 
 And I in duft am made a rotten thing. 
 
 Haft thou been fome great Counfellor of State, 
 
 Whofe potent wit did rule a mighty Realm? 
 
 Where is the policy thou hadft of late? 
 
 Confum'd and gone, even like an idle dream. 
 
 I have not fo much wit as will fuffice, 
 
 To kill the worms that in my Coffin lies : 
 
 Perhaps thou waft fome beauteous Ladies face, 
 
 For whom right ftrange adventures have been wrought,^ 
 
 Even fuch, as (when it was my loving cafe) 
 
 For my dear kindeft PJialcc I have fought. 
 
 Perhaps about this skull there was a skin 
 
 Fairer than Hellens was inclofed in. 
 
 And on this fcalp fo wormy eaten bare, 
 
 (Where nothing now but bone Ave may behold) 
 
 Where Natures ornaments, fuch locks of hair, 
 
 As might induce the eye to deem them gold; 
 
 And chryftal Eyes in thofe two hollow caves ; 
 
 And here fuch lips, as love, for kiffmg craves. 
 
 But where's the fubftance of this beauty fent. 
 
 So loving, precious in the fight of men ? 
 
 With powerful death unto the duft it went; 
 
 Grew loathfome, filthy, came to nothing then. 
 
 And what a pi6lure of it doth remain. 
 
 To tell the wife. All beaiity is but vain. 
 
 Such memories he often would prefer, 
 
 Of mortal frailty and the force of death : 
 
 To teach the flefli how apt it is to err, 
 
 And poft repentance off till lateft breath : 
 
 Thus 
 
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 The Famous Hilary 
 
 Thus would he in the worlds contempt reprove 
 
 All that feduce the foul from heavenly love. 
 
 Now for a while reverfe your vows of wo, 
 
 For one fad fubje6l to behold another, 
 
 To fee new forrow back to England go. 
 
 And to long abfent years commit the other: 
 
 Leave doleful Guy to aged grief and cares. 
 
 And look on Phcelicc, how his Lady fares 
 
 Like to a widow, all in black attire, 
 
 She doth exprefs her inward doleful mind : 
 
 A Chamber-prifon is her chief defire. 
 
 Where fhe to paffion wholly is enclin'd. 
 
 She that of late was pride of Englijli Court, 
 
 With Majefty no longer will confort. 
 
 But lives a life like one defpis'd life's being ; 
 
 And every day unto the world did die, 
 
 With judgment's eyes far into folly feeing, 
 
 And noting well, how faft falfe pleafures flie; 
 
 Leaving for every tafte of vain delight, 
 
 A greater heap of cares than pen can write. 
 
 Her thoughts run after her departed Lord, 
 
 And travel'd in conceit more faft than he: 
 
 What place (quoth flie) can reft to thee afford, 
 
 That pilgrim like hath thus forfaken me; 
 
 Oh fad laments! my foul your burthen bears. 
 
 To think poor Guy remembers me in tears. 
 
 Methinks he fits now by a River fide. 
 
 And fwells the water with his weeping eyes : 
 
 Methinks that, Phcslice, Phcslice, loud he cry'd, 
 
 And charged Eccho bear it through the skies; 
 
 Then rifmg up he runs with might and main. 
 
 Saying, fweet Eccho bring my love again. 
 
 Then comes he to a Cyprefs Tree, and fays, 
 
 Sylvmius, this was once the lovely Boy, 
 
 Whom thou for feature to the Clouds didft praife. 
 
 But here's thy fenflefs and transformed joy; 
 
 'Tis nothing now but boughs and leaves, and tree, 
 
 And made to wither, as all beauties be. 
 
 And 
 
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 And then methinks he fits him fadly down, 
 
 And on his bending knees his elbow ftays, 
 
 With head in hand, faying, Farewel renown, 
 
 Vanifh vain pleafures of my youthful days ; 
 
 My true repentance do you all difplace; 
 
 A happy end brings fmful fouls to grace. 
 
 Ah worthy man that thus canft mortifie 
 
 The Rebel flefli, to conquer Adams nature, 
 
 And for the gaining of Eternity, 
 
 Doft live on earth, as if an earthly creature; 
 
 Dead and alive, old and new-born again. 
 
 True Valiant Gicy, that hath the Devil flain. 
 
 As thy advice was when thou didft depart, 
 
 That I fhould live a Veftal Virgins life ; 
 
 Although when I was Maid, by Lovers art 
 
 Thou didffc perfwade me to become a Wife : 
 
 I vow by Heaven's, and all the Pow'rs Divine, 
 
 To keep my thoughts as conftant, chaft as thine. 
 
 My beauty I will blemifli all I may. 
 
 With tears, and fighs, and doleful lamentation ; 
 
 By abftinance I will attain the way 
 
 To overcome the force of fins temptation : 
 
 This fentence have I often read and feen, 
 
 A zvonians chajlity is Vh^tues Queen. 
 
 Cerus and Bacchus I will careful fhun. 
 
 Foes to Diana, Friends to Venus ever; 
 
 Unto licentious life they teach us run. 
 
 And with fobriety affociate never. 
 
 Spare Diet fliall become my daily fare, 
 
 The foul thrives beft to keep the body bare. 
 
 The Courtly ornament I wore of late, 
 
 In honour of King AtJielJlone' s fair Queen, 
 
 Ev'n all thofe Jewels and thofe Robes of State, 
 
 Wherein fo often I was glorious feen. 
 
 Shall with their price and value now fupply 
 
 Thofe naked poor that in the ftreets do lie. 
 
 The Gold and Silver that I do poffefs, 
 
 About good works fliall all imployed be ; 
 
 The 
 
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 The Famotis Hijlory 
 
 The purchafe of eternal happinefs 
 
 Is of all wealth moft precious unto me ; 
 
 All that in want to Warwick Caftle come, 
 
 And crave relief, I will afford them fome. 
 
 For halt, and lame, and blind, I will pro\ide 
 
 Some Hofpital, with Land to be maintain'd ; 
 
 For widows, and poor fatherlefs befide, 
 
 That their neceffities may be fuftain'd ; 
 
 For young Beginners their Efhates to raife; 
 
 And for repairing of decay'd High-Avays. 
 
 This I account to be the Heavenly thrift, 
 
 Lay up your Treafure where it cannot ruft. 
 
 And give the riches we receive by gift, 
 
 As each good Steward is enjoyn'd he muft: 
 
 That after this fliort flinted life's decay, 
 
 We may have life an everlafting day. 
 
 Reje6ted World, thus do I take my leave 
 
 With thee, and all things thou do'fl moft efteem : 
 
 Th}' fliews are fnares, and all thy hopes deceive, 
 
 Thy goodnefs is but only good to fecm : 
 
 Of thy falfe pleafures I as much have feen. 
 
 As fhe that bears the Title of a Queen. 
 
 Oh that I were in fuch unknown difguife, 
 
 (Attending on my Guy where-ere he be) 
 
 As once the King SiUpitia did devife, 
 
 His Lentiibis in banifliment to fee! 
 
 Or Hypjicrata like, in mans attire 
 
 Following her exil'd King, through Love's defire. 
 
 'Twould fomething eafe my forrow wounded heart, 
 
 So to divide the burthen of unreft; 
 
 For where afifli6lion take afflictions part, 
 
 In hard extreams fome comfort is expreft. 
 
 Mifery is more eafie to abide. 
 
 When friends with friends their croffes do divide. 
 
 But all in vain I wifh'd, Avould God I were; 
 
 Or thus, or thus, it nought avails my woe: 
 
 Though ftan-ing thoughts do wander here and there. 
 
 My poor weak body knows not where to go: 
 
 Unto 
 
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 of Guy Earl of Warwick. 
 
 Unto the Holy Land I heard him fay 
 God fend me thither at my dying day. 
 I will about my vows, and fee them paid, 
 To do the goood that Charity requires: 
 When grace to works of virtue does perfwade, 
 Tis bleffednefs to further fuch defires. 
 And while on earth I do a fmner dwell, 
 ric ftrive to pleafe my God with living well. 
 In this refolve, that life fhe entertains, 
 Performing all the courfe flie had propounded, 
 And fuch fevcrity therein explains, 
 Her fex with wonder refts amaz'd, confounded, 
 To fee fo rare a beauty, rich, high-born. 
 Hold all worlds pleafures in contempt and fcorn. 
 For no perfwading friend that fhe would hear. 
 Which motion'd company or recreation ; 
 Unto their fpeech Hie would not lend an ear, 
 That fought to alter her determination: 
 But fuch as came, and of compaffion fpake, 
 She did relieve for bleffed Jefus fake. 
 Her wandring Lord from Land to Land repairs. 
 To feek out places Pilgrims do frequent: 
 By careful years turn'd into filver hairs ; 
 Exceeding chang'd with grief and languiiliment. 
 (For forrow gives a man more ancient look 
 Than elder time, which leffer cares have took). 
 His old acquaintance in thofe foreign parts, 
 That had before moft worthy actions feen, 
 Right bold adventures of his long deferts, 
 Had loft Sir Gjiy, as he had never been. 
 Thofe that in Armour knew his Martial face, 
 Did not expeft him in a Friars cafe. 
 Among the reft to whom he had been known, 
 He met Earl Terry banifli'd to exile: 
 Each unto other being ftrangers grown. 
 Through forrow, which the fenfes do beguile; 
 TJiey had forgot that ere they faw each other, 
 Yet Guy was Terry's, Terry Guy's fworn brother. 
 
 K Having 
 
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 Having related how their Travels grew, 
 
 One's voluntary, t'other's by conftraint; 
 
 In taking leave with courtefies adieu, 
 
 Oh Englilli man (faith Terry, fighing faint) 
 
 I had a friend, a Countrey-man of thine, 
 
 Was Juflice Champion to great wrongs of mine. 
 
 Tyranny to the face he durft defie. 
 
 And ftamp his foot upon oppreffion's neck: 
 
 Tell me, dear friend, haft thou not heard of Guy, 
 
 That had a hand to help, a fword to check? 
 
 I have (quoth he) and knew him many years; 
 
 Guy VVarivick' s Earl, is one oi England V&qvs. 
 
 What is thy name, Terry (quoth he) I hight, 
 
 Greater by birth than fortune makes me feem. 
 
 Terry (faid he) I vow to do thee right 
 
 To what I may, my poor good will efleem : 
 
 To human thought my nature doth agree. 
 
 Thou lov'ft my friend, I muft of force love thee. 
 
 Dire6l me to the man exil'd thee thus, 
 
 I'le take thy part as far as fcrength extends : 
 
 If Guy himfelf were here to joyn with us. 
 
 He could but fay, /'/^ venture life and friends. 
 
 And be affured, though I fimple be, 
 
 I oft have had as good fuccefs as he. 
 
 Terry with loving thanks his love requites, 
 
 And brings him to his Foe, whom he defies, 
 
 And valiant with his adverfe Champion fights, 
 
 Till mortal wounded at his feet he dies; 
 
 Yet 'twas a man fuppos'd of matchlefs worth. 
 
 That for that Combat they had fingled forth. 
 
 When this was done, the Earl demands his name ; 
 
 Pardon, (quoth he) that were againft a vow; 
 
 To no man living I'le reveal the fame, 
 
 For I have changed name and nature now: 
 
 Nature's corruption I do ftrive to leave, 
 
 A new regeneration to receive. 
 
 Farewel my friend, ev'n as my foul would fare, 
 
 If we ne're meet on earth, Heav'n be the place; 
 
 For
 
 of Guy EarlofV^divWic]^. 
 
 For idle hours I have none to fpare, 
 
 My hairs look gray, they turn to white apace; 
 
 I have great lofs in fliort time to redeem ; 
 
 A minute's forrow is of much efteem 
 
 So he departs towards Jiideds ground, 
 
 Samaria and Galilee to fee, 
 
 Thofe parts where Chriflian Pilgrims fo renown'd 
 
 Becaufe their Saviour's choice was there to be, 
 
 Where he did fufifer to redeem our lofs; 
 
 Ev'n from the Cratch unto the bloody Crofs. 
 
 Much time he fpends and many years beftows, 
 
 From place to place about this holy-Land, 
 
 That all his friends in England do fuppofe. 
 
 Now death of him hath got the upper-hand : 
 
 For no report came that could ere relate 
 
 His life, his being, or his prefent ftate. 
 
 This put the world to filence, men were mute, 
 
 Concerning Guy they knew not what to fay. 
 
 The dreadful Champion in the armed fuit, 
 
 Was never known nor fear'd in fimple gray. 
 
 But did endeavour all that ere he might, 
 
 Never to be reveal'd to any Wight. 
 
 For unto none he would his name difclofe, 
 
 Nor tell dire6l what Countrey-man he was; 
 
 Nor of his noble mind make any fliows. 
 
 But ftrive in all things moft obfcure to pafs, ' 
 
 Until by native love his mind was led, 
 
 To come and lay his bones where he was bred. 
 
 K 2 Guy 
 
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 The Famotts Hiftory 
 
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 ir Guy after many years comes home, —i- 
 
 ^ To England for his grave, ^ 
 
 ^ Kills Colbrond the great Giant, and ^ 
 — +i- "♦+" 
 
 -j^ Dies poorly in a Cave. ^ 
 
 CANTO XII. 
 
 EV'n as the brighteffc glorious fhining-day 
 Will have a night of darknefs to fucceed ; 
 Which takes the pride of Phcebus quite away, 
 And makes the Earth to mourn in fable weed : 
 Prefenting us with drowfie heavy fleep, 
 Death's memory in careful thoughts to keep: 
 So youth the day of Nature's ftrength and beauty, 
 Which had a fplendor like fair Heaven's eye, 
 Muft yield to age by a fubmiffive duty. 
 And grow fo dark, that life of force muft dye, 
 When length of years bring ancient evening on, 
 Irrevocable time is pofting gone. 
 This cogitation in Guys breaft appears, 
 By his returning from the Holy Land ; 
 He finds himfelf to be a man in years. 
 And that his Glafs had but a little fand 
 To run, before his date of life expire. 
 Therefore to England he doth back retire, 
 There to be buried where he had been born, 
 Was all the caufe that did induce him back: 
 To end his evening where he had his morn. 
 In doleful colours of a dead man's black : 
 And let that body reft in EnglifJi ground, 
 Which through the world no refting place had found. 
 When he arrived on his native fhore. 
 He found his Countrey in extream diftrefs; 
 
 For 
 
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 of Guy Earl of Warw ick. 
 
 For through the Kingdom armed troops great ftore, 
 
 Againft the Foe was all in readinefs, 
 
 The King of Denmark, whofe deftroying hand, 
 
 A mighty Army did fecurely land ; 
 
 And marched from the Coaft with devaftation, 
 
 Deftroying Towns, Villages fet on fire; 
 
 Working fuch terror unto all the Nation, 
 
 King AtJielJione was forced to retire 
 
 To VVincheJler. Which when the Danes once knew, 
 
 Towards the City all their ftrength they drew. 
 
 Which was too flrong for Spear -end Shield to win, 
 
 (Invincible their walls of ftone were then) 
 
 They wanted Cannon-keys to let them in. 
 V' Hell's picklock powder was unknown to men: 
 
 The Devil had not taught fuch murthering fmoak; 
 
 A Soldier's honour was in manly flroke : 
 
 Beholding now how they repulfed were. 
 
 That VVincheJier by no means could be won: 
 K'They do conclude to fummon parly there, 
 
 And with a Challenge have all quarrels done; 
 
 An EngliJIi man to combat with a Dane, 
 
 And that King lofe, that had his Champion flain. 
 
 Wherewith a huge great Giant doth appear, 
 v= Demanding where the Foxes all were crept; 
 Saying, if one dare come and meet me here. 
 That hath true valour for his Countrey kept, 
 Let him come forth, his manhood to difclofe, 
 Or elfe the Englijh are but cowards foes. 
 ' : Why, very Cravens on their Dunghils dare 
 Both crow and ftrike, before they run and cry ; 
 Is EngliJJi Courage now become fo rare, 
 That none will fight, becaufe they fear to dye.^ 
 That I pronounce you all faint-hearted fools, 
 4 -Afraid to look on manly martial tools .^ 
 What flanders I have heard in foreign lands, 
 Of thofe poor men for deeds which they have done.'' 
 Moft falfe they are belied of their hands; 
 But he fays true, who fays their feet can run ; 
 
 They 
 
 75
 
 The Famous Hi/iory 
 
 They have a Proverb to inftru6l them in, 
 
 That 'tis good Jleeping in a found zvhole skin. 
 
 Thus did he vaunt in terms of proud difdain, 
 
 And threw his Gauntlet down, fay'ng. There's my glove: 
 
 At length great Giiy no longer could refrain, 
 
 Seeing all ftrain court'fies to exprefs their love: 
 
 Guy fights to free all England's fear, 
 With Colbrond Giant Dane: 
 And in Hide-Mead at Winchefter, 
 Was thai (joX\i)ci fain. 
 
 But 
 
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 of Guy Earl of Warwick. 
 
 But comes unto the King, and fays, Dread Lord! 
 
 This combate to thy unknown Knight afford. 
 
 Although in fimple habit I am hid, 
 
 Ycilding no fhew of that I undertake, 
 
 I ne're attempted ought but what I did; 
 
 An end of Colbrond, on my foul, I'le make. 
 
 Palmer (quoth Atheljione) I like thy fprite, 
 
 God fend thee thither, and He aid thee right. 
 
 His Powerful Hand lend vigour to thy blows, 
 V'And grant thy foot upon thy Foe may tread; 
 
 Amen, quoth Guy, and with great courage goes 
 
 Forth VVincJicJiers North gate unto Hide-Mead 
 
 Where that fame Monfter of a man he found, 
 
 Treading at every flep two yards of ground. 
 |\ Art thou the man (quoth Colbrond) art thou he 
 
 On whom the King will venture England's Crown .'' 
 
 Can he not find a fitter match for me. 
 
 Than this poor Rafcal in a thred-bare Gown.-* 
 
 Where's all his Knights and worthy Champions now.^ 
 "''' I do difdain fo bafe a Slave as thou. 
 
 Giant, faid Guy, Manhood fhould never rail. 
 
 To breathe the air with blaft of idle wind ; 
 
 A Soldier's weapon befl can tell his tale, 
 
 Thy deftiny upon my Sword I find ; 
 /f?:*TAvill let thee blood, while thou haft drops to bleed. 
 
 And fpell thy death for all the Danes to read. 
 
 Thus I begin; and on his armour laid. 
 
 That Colbrond' s Coat was never cudgel'd fo, 
 
 Who with his Club did watch to meet his blade, 
 \^ Intending to have brok'n it with a blow ; 
 
 But Gicy was fure his fword would hold out play, 
 
 It had been trufted many a cruel fray. 
 
 And therefore boldly he prefumes thereon. 
 
 Laying about as faft as he could ftrive, 
 •A Until the Lubbers breath was almoft gone, 
 
 (For with a weighty Club did Colbrond ftrive) 
 
 Which lighting on the ground, made earth give way. 
 
 As if fome Devil did about him lay. 
 
 So 
 
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 The Famous Hi^ory 
 
 So long they held this flern and ireful fight, 
 ; ' That the beholders knew not what to deem, 
 
 Yet ftill fome wounds to Colbrond's fhare did light, 
 
 Which to the Englifh did great comfort feem. 
 
 Befides, their Champion gave encouragement, 
 
 By a6live carriage, danger to prevent. 
 ^ *5 Quoth Colbrond, Englijh man, wilt thou forbear. 
 
 And fue for mercy, let the fight alone? 
 
 Villain, (quoth Guy) I fcorn thy Coward fear, 
 
 lie have thy life, or it fhall coft mine own: 
 
 We'l never part till one be foundly fped, 
 ! 7^'The King hath ventur'd England on my head. 
 
 For twenty Denmarks (if they might be found) 
 
 And all the wealth that on the Ocean fwims, 
 
 I will not yield an inch of EngliJJi ground ; 
 
 Thou flialt find metal in thefe aged limbs: 
 j-t'*Although thy bodie's height be more than mine, 
 
 I have a heart bigger by odds than thine. 
 
 Think on thy ancient Grandfire, Gogmagog, 
 
 Whom Corineus dealt withall at Dover; 
 
 How that fame Lubber, like a Timber log, 
 '■^Was by the worthy Britain tumbled over; 
 
 For his bold challenge, he had fuch a check, 
 
 There was no Surgeon could amend his neck. 
 
 Thou art deceiv'd in me, poor filly Sot, 
 , I am untaught to bend fubmiffion's knees : 
 i"^^Hold me no Chriftian, if I fail a jot, 
 
 (And for the world that title I'le not leefe) 
 
 Betake thee to thy Tools, honour thy king, 
 
 Upon thy manhood lies a mighty thing. 
 
 And thus I do encounter thee afrefli: 
 i'i''With that he lent him fuch a powerful ftroke 
 
 It made wide ruptures in the Giant's flefh. 
 
 And did his furious choler much provoke; 
 
 Laying about him in moft cruel rage, 
 . Till the next wound did all his heat affwage, 
 p. nit was fo mortal that it brought him down. 
 
 To lie and groan upon the bloody ground: 
 
 Forth 
 
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 of Guy Earl o/V^3.rW\(z\<L. 
 
 Forthwith a fhout was heard from out the Town, 
 
 That all the skie did eccho to the found ; 
 
 Great joy was made by ev'ry EngliJJi heart, 
 
 And all the Danes with extream grief depart. 
 
 King AthelJlo}ic fent for his Champion then, 
 
 To do him honour for his famous deed : 
 
 Who was received by the Clergy-men 
 
 With all folemnity, for fuch high meed : 
 
 Embraced by the Nobles, and renown'd, 
 
 With Martial Mufick, Drum, and Trumpets found: 
 
 But little pleafure Guy conceives herein, 
 
 Refufmg Jewels, coftly ornaments, • 
 
 Saying, with thefe he out of love had been 
 
 For many years by true experiments : 
 
 Only thanks God, that bleft him with an hour. 
 
 To free his Countrey from invading pow'r. 
 
 And fo intreats that he may pafs unknown. 
 
 To live where poverty regards not wealth, 
 
 And be beholding to the help of none. 
 
 Seeing the world but now and then by ftealth. 
 
 For trite content doth fucJi a Treafitre bring, 
 
 It makes the begger ricJier than a King. 
 
 With true content (faid he) I v/ill abide, 
 
 In homely Cottage, free from all refort; 
 
 But I have found, content cannot be fpy'd, 
 
 To make abode within a Monarchs Court: 
 
 No there's ambition, pride, and envy feen, 
 
 And fawning flatt'ring ftepping ftill between. 
 
 Yet gentle Palmer ( faid the King) agree, 
 
 Where-ever thou refolveft to remain : 
 
 Acquaint thy name in private unto me, 
 
 And this is all thy Soveraign will obtain : 
 
 Tell me but who thou art, I will conceal it. 
 
 As I am England' s King, I'le not reveal it. 
 
 Why then (quoth he) your Grace fliall underftand 
 
 I am your Subjefl, Gny of Warwick named; 
 
 That have thefe many years not feen your Land, 
 
 But been where youth by ancient age is tamed : 
 
 Yet there experience taught me wit, dread Prince, 
 
 The world of many follies to convince. 
 
 L And 
 
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 The Famotis Hilary 
 
 And now am come to bring my bones to grave, 
 
 Within the Kingdom where I firft took life; 
 
 Yet fliall no creature elfe the notice have 
 
 Of my arrival, not my deareft Wife.. 
 
 Till ficknefs come, and doth my death foretell. 
 
 Then I'le acquaint her with my laft farewell. 
 
 The King with joy imbrac'd him in his arms, 
 
 And with great admiration anfwers thus ; 
 
 Moft worthy Earl, freer of England's harms. 
 
 It grieves my foul thou wilt not live with us : 
 
 Oh were thy refolutions thoughts, but now, 
 
 That my perfwafions might prevent thy vow. 
 
 But, 'tis too late, they are grown ripe, I fee 
 
 Thou art too fetled in determination ; 
 
 Well, Honoured man, yet this joys me. 
 
 Thou bring'ft thy bones unto thy deareft Nation; 
 
 Where Monuments of thy great deeds fhall laft. 
 
 Till after-ages of the world be paft. 
 
 In Warwick Caftle fhall thy Sword be kept. 
 
 To witnefs to the world what thou haft been, 
 
 And leafl forgetful time fliould intercept, 
 
 A Prefident, I prefent will begin ; 
 
 The Caftle-keeper fliall receive a Fee, 
 
 To keep thy fword in memory of thee. 
 
 Thy Armour like\Vife, and thy Martial Spear, 
 
 That did thee fervice in thy high defigns. 
 
 Shall be preferved very careful there, 
 
 That all fuch men as have diftruftful minds, 
 
 May think (if from a truth it did not grow) 
 
 A King would fcorn to cozen people fo. 
 
 And in thy Chappel {diftant thence a mile) 
 
 A bone fhall hang of that fame cruel beaft. 
 
 Which near to Coventry remain'd long Avhile, 
 
 Whofe rib by meafure is fix foot at leaft; 
 
 Deftroying many that did pafs that way, 
 
 Until thy manhood did the Savage flay. 
 
 That by tradition, men may fpeak and tell. 
 
 This was Gu/s Armour, this his Maffie blade; 
 
 Thefe bones of murthering beafts which men did quel, 
 
 And this the Tomb wherein his Corps where laid. 
 
 This 
 
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 of Guy Rarl of Warwick. 
 
 This the true Pi6lure of his fliapc at length. 
 
 And this the Spear did oft exprefs his ftrength. 
 
 For fure I hold it an ungrateful thing, 
 
 (When thou by Natures courfe in duft fliall lie) 
 
 No memory fliall caufe fome Mufe to fing 
 
 The worthinefs of matchlcfs Englifli Guy: 
 
 Thy Country-men would prove too far unkind, 
 
 When out of fight, they leave thee out of mind. 
 
 This faid, in humble duty (wondrous meek) 
 
 Guy reverenceth the King, and fo departs, 
 
 Some folitary Den, or Cave to feek, 
 
 Which he unto his Manfion-houfe converts: 
 
 And fo lives poorly in the hollow ground, 
 
 Making his meat of herbs and roots he found. 
 
 Sometimes he would to VVarnjick Caftle go. 
 
 And crave an alms at his dear Ladies hand, 
 
 Who unto Pilgrims did more bounty fhow. 
 
 Than any Noble-woman in the Land ; 
 
 And flie would ask all Palmers that came there, 
 
 If at the Holy Land they never were.'' 
 
 Or in their travels, if they had not feen 
 
 An Englifh man was Lord of that fame Tower .'' 
 
 Who many years away from hence had been, 
 
 A Knight ne're conquer'd yet by human Power. 
 
 But there's a Tyrant whom I only fear, 
 
 They call him Death, that murthers every where; 
 
 If he have met him (O my deareft Lord) 
 
 I never fliall behold thy face again, 
 
 Till that fame Monfter do as much afford 
 
 Unto my heart, and fo releafe all pain. 
 
 Which gracious Heaven grant, if Guy be dead, 
 
 Upon the earth let me no longer tread. 
 
 Thus did he often hear his Wife enquire. 
 
 With deep complaints from extream paffions flowing; 
 
 Yet by no means would grant her kind defire 
 
 The comfort of a hopeful word beftowing; 
 
 But look upon her as his heart would break, 
 
 Then turn away for fear his tongue fliould fpeak ; 
 
 And fo departs with weeping to his Cell, 
 
 Setting a dead man's head before his eyes ; 
 
 L2 
 
 Si
 
 The Famotts Hijlory 
 
 Saying, with thee I fhortly come to dwell, 
 
 This finful flefli I conftantly defpife, 
 
 My foul is weary of fo bad a gueft, 
 
 And doth defire to be at home in reft. 
 
 My feeble limbs weaknefs doth fore poffefs, 
 
 And ficknefs gripes do touch about my heart ; 
 
 I feel I am not far from happinefs, 
 
 But am in hope my foe and I fhall part; 
 
 This adverfary which I long have fed, 
 
 By whom my foul hath been fo much mifled. 
 
 To my dear Phczlice I will fend my Rring, 
 
 Which I did promife for her fake to keep : 
 
 I may no longer time defer the thing, 
 
 For fear that death prevent me with his fleep; 
 
 I feel his meffenger approach apace. 
 
 And poor weak nature muft of force give place: 
 
 So call'd a Herds-man as he paffed by. 
 
 And faid, Good friend, do me a fpecial favour, 
 
 Even in a matter that concerns me high, 
 
 (My hope relies upon thy kind behaviour) 
 
 To Warwick Caftle fpeedily repair. 
 
 And for the Countefs ask, with trufty care 
 
 Deliver thou this Ring to her own hand. 
 
 And fay, the ancient Pilgrim fent the fame 
 
 That lately at her Gate with Scrip did ftand, 
 
 To beg an alms in bleffed Jefus Name. 
 
 And if fhe ask thee where I do remain, 
 
 Dire6l her hither, fhe'l requite thy pain. 
 
 Sir (quoth the Herds-man) I fhall be afham'd, 
 
 That ne're durft fpeak to Lady in my life: 
 
 Nay more, and't pleafe you, I may much be blam'd, 
 
 To carry Rings to fuch a great man's Wife. 
 
 Befides, if I fhould lofe it by the way, 
 
 Why what would you and Madam Phcelice fay.'' 
 
 Prethee (faid Gity) frame not fuch idle doubt, 
 
 No prejudice can light on thee at all; 
 
 The a6l is honeft which thou go'ft about, 
 
 And for it none can thee in queftion call : 
 
 A courteous ear the Lady will thee lend. 
 
 Upon my warrant, fear you nothing friend. 
 
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 of Guy Earl of Warwick. 
 
 With that he goes, and mannerly betakes 
 
 The token, to the Countefs; which flic feeing, 
 
 Mofl: admirable wonder at it makes, 
 
 Ah friend (quoth flic) where is my Husband's being? 
 
 Husband (faid he) that news I do not bring, 
 
 From an old Begger I receiv'd the Ring. 
 
 His houfe was made of neither wood nor flone, 
 
 But under ground into a hole he went : 
 
 And in my confcience there he dwells alone, 
 
 And never pays his Landlord quarters rent. 
 
 Ah 'tis my Guy, fhe faid, fliew me his Cell, 
 
 And for thy pains I will reward thee well. 
 
 So he dire6ls VVarzvick's fair Countefs thither. 
 
 Who entring in that melancholy place. 
 
 Her Lord and flie imbracing, weep together, 
 
 Unable to pronounce a word long fpace, 
 
 Long time them two had not a word to fpeak, 
 
 Till Guy's difcretion Sorrows door did break: 
 
 Phcelice, quoth he, now take thy leave of Gjcy, 
 
 That fent to fee thee e're his fight decay : 
 
 Within thy arms I do intreat to die. 
 
 And breathe my fpirit from thy fweat foul away. 
 
 Thou gav'fl: me alms at VVarivick Caftle late: 
 
 ^Tis bleffednefs to pity poor mens Jlate. 
 
 Look not fo flrange, bewail not fo my Dear; 
 
 Ah! weep not Love, I do not want thy tears: 
 
 I have fhed plenty fince my coming here; 
 
 Of true Remorfe, my confcience witnefs bears, 
 
 Thou weep'fb not now, becaufe I wept no more, 
 
 But to behold me friendlefs, haplefs, poor. 
 
 Wife, I have fought the place that I defire, 
 
 Though few endeavour for eternal reft ; 
 
 The foul which to that Heaven doth afpire, 
 
 Muft leave the world, and worldly things deteft; 
 
 'Tis full of Devils that on Souls do wait, 
 
 And full of mates, in every place fome bait. 
 
 Ah Phcslice, I have fpent (and then he wept) 
 
 Youth (natures day) upon the love of thee; 
 
 And for my God, old rotten age have kept. 
 
 The night of nature, Chrijl forgive it me; 
 
 Sorrow
 
 The Famous Hislory 
 
 Sorrow lies heavy on my foul for this, 
 Sweet Saviour Chrift, pardon thou my amifs. 
 In that I had deftroy'd fo many men, 
 Even for one Woman to enjoy thy love; 
 Therefore in this folitary Den, 
 I fought my peace with that great God above, 
 'Gainft whom by fm I have been more mif-led 
 Than there be hairs upon my hoary-head. 
 
 Guy in repentance poorly lives, 
 Obfcurely in a Cave; 
 ReveaVd to Phjelice by a Ring, 
 When death had digg'd his Grave. 
 
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 of Guy Earl of W^rwiok. 
 
 The other day, feeing my Body ill, 
 
 And all the parts thereof opprefl with pain, 
 
 I did compofe a Teftament and Will, 
 
 To be the laft that ever I ordain. 
 
 Lo here it is, Tie read it if I can. 
 
 Before I ccafe to be a living man. 
 
 HIS WILL. 
 
 EVen in the name of him zvJiofe mighty Poiver 
 Created all in Heaven and Earth contained, 
 As one to dye this very injlant hour, 
 I leave the zvorld, and all therein, unfeigned 
 My Soul I give to him that gave it me\ 
 Receive it Jcfus, as I trufl in thee. 
 I owe a debt of Life is due to Death, 
 And zvhen if s paid him, he can ask fio more; 
 A very vapour of a little breath; 
 Would he had had it many years before ; 
 But here's my comfort, if he come or flay, 
 'Tis ready for him {if he zvill) to day. 
 I ozue the zvorld a flock of zvealth is lent, 
 When I did enter traffique zvith the fame: 
 Lefs zvould have given Nature more content, 
 ' Tis happinefs to zvant a rich man's name. 
 World, leave me naked, as I did begin; 
 I ask but one poor flieet to zvrap me in 
 I do bequeath more fms than I can number, 
 My deadly evils in a countlefs fum; 
 Even from my cradle iinto deaths deadflumber, 
 Thefepafl, thefe prefent, all that are to come, 
 To him that made them loads to burthen me, 
 Satan, Receive them, for they came from thee, 
 I give good thoitghts, and every vertuoiis deed; 
 That every grace hath guided me unto, 
 To him from ivhom all goodnefs doth proceed, 
 For only evil, Nature taught me do: 
 I zvas conceived, bred and born in fin, 
 And all my life mofl vile and vain hath been. 
 I give toforroiv all my fighs and cryes, 
 
 H
 
 The Famous Hijlory 
 
 Fetcht from the bottom of a bleeding heart, 
 I give repentance, tears, and watry eyes, 
 Thefign unfeigned of a true Cojivert, 
 Earth yield a grave, or Sea become a tomb, 
 Jefus unto my Soul grant Heaveii room. 
 Phaelice, I faint, fareivel true loyal wife, 
 Affifl me zuith thy Prayers, thy Husband dies, 
 I trufl to meet thee in a better life, 
 Where tears fliall iviped be from weeping eyes. 
 Come bleffed fpirit, come iji Jefus Name, 
 Receive my Soul, to him convey the fame. 
 
 And with thefe words his quiet Spirit departs, 
 While mournful Phcslice well nigh dead with woe, 
 Her Senfes all to forrows ufe converts, 
 And too abundant doth her tears bellow, 
 Beating her breaft, till breaft and heart be fore. 
 Wringing her hands till fhe could ftrive no more. 
 Then fighing, faid, Ah Death! my forrows caufe, 
 Thou haft depriv'd me of my deareft Lord ! 
 Since loathfom air my vital fpirits draws, 
 This favour for thy Tyranny afford. 
 Do me a good to recompence thy ill. 
 And flrike the ftroke that all my cares can kill. 
 Let me not live to fee to morrows light, 
 But make me cold, bloodlefs, pale and wan. 
 As this dead Carkafs doth appear in fight, 
 This true defcription of a mortal man : 
 Whofe deeds of wonder pafl and gone before. 
 Hath left him now at Deaths dark prifon-door 
 Kiffmg his face, with a farewel of tears. 
 She leaves the body for the grave to claim ; 
 And from that place as fad a Soul fhe bears. 
 As ever woman that the world can name ; 
 Living but fifteen days after his death. 
 And then through extream forrow yieldeth breath. 
 
 FINIS. 
 
 86
 
 MISCELLANEOUS POEMS
 
 MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. 
 
 [As accefs could not be had to the fecond 
 edition of Rowlands' '^ Betraying of Chrifl," 
 which contains the two following poems, they 
 are confequently reprinted from " Sele6l Poetry 
 Chiefly Devotional of the Reign of Queen Eliza- 
 beth. Colle6led and Edited for the Parker 
 Society, by Edward Farr, Efq," 2 vols., i2mo, 
 Cambridge, 1845.] 
 
 THE HIGH WAY TO MOUNT CALUARIE. 
 
 REPAIRE to Pilat's hall, 
 Which place when thou haft found, 
 There flialt thou fee a pillar ftand, 
 To which thy Lord was bound. 
 
 'Tis eafie to be knowne 
 
 To anie Chriftian eye; 
 
 The bloudie whips doe point it out 
 
 From all that ftand thereby. 
 
 By it there lies a robe 
 
 Of purple, and a reed, 
 
 Which Pilat's feruants vfd t' abufe, 
 
 In fmne's deriding deed :
 
 Miscellaneous Poems, 
 
 When they pronounced "All haile! 
 God faue thee!" with a breath, 
 And by the fame cride prefently, 
 " Let Chrift be done to death." 
 
 His perfon had in fcorne, 
 
 His do6lrine made a iefb, 
 
 Their mockeries were a martirdome; 
 
 No wrongs but him oppreft. 
 
 What courage leffe then his 
 
 Would haue indur'd like fhame, 
 
 But would with greefs of fuch contempt 
 
 Haue dide t' indure the fame? 
 
 A little from that place, 
 Vpon the left-hand fide, 
 There is a curious portlie dore, 
 Right beautifuU and wide. 
 
 Leaue that in anie wife. 
 Forbid thy foot goe thether ; 
 For out thereat did ludas goe, 
 Defpaire and he together. 
 
 But to the right hande turne, 
 Where is a narrow gate, 
 Forth which St Peter went to weepe 
 His poore diftreft eflate. 
 
 Doe immitate the like, 
 Goe out at Sorrowe's dore; 
 Weepe bitterly as he did weepe, 
 That wept to fmne no more.
 
 Miscellaneous Poems. 
 
 Keepe wide of Cayphas' houfe, 
 Though couetous thoughts infence: 
 There bribery haunts, dcfpair was hatcht ; 
 Falfe ludas came from thence. 
 
 But goe on forward ftill, 
 
 Where Pilat's pallace ftands ; 
 
 There where he firft did falfe condemne, 
 
 Then wafli his guiltie hands : 
 
 Confeff'd he found no caufe, 
 And yet condemn'd to die, 
 Fearing an earthly Caefar more 
 Then God that rules on hie. 
 
 By this dire6lion then 
 
 The way is vnderflood; 
 
 No porch, no dore, nor hal to paffe, 
 
 Vnfprinckled with Chrifl's blood. 
 
 So fhall no errour put 
 Mifguiding fteppes betweene; 
 For euery drop fvveet lefus flied 
 Is freflily to be feene. 
 
 A crowne of piercing thornes 
 There lies imbru'd in gore; 
 The garland that thy Sauiour's head 
 For thy offences wore. 
 
 Which when thou fhalt behold, 
 Thinke what his loue hath binne, 
 Whofe head was loaden with thofe briers 
 T' vnlade thee of thy fmne :
 
 Miscellaneous Poems. 
 
 Whofe facred flefli was torne; 
 Whofe hoHe fkinne was rent; 
 Whofe tortures and extreameft paines 
 Thy paines in hell preuent. 
 
 As God from Babilon 
 Did turne, when they paft cure 
 Refufed helpe; whom he would heale, 
 Denying health t' indure : 
 
 So from Hierufalem 
 
 The foule's phifition goes, 
 
 When they forfook his fauing health, 
 
 And vow'd themfelues his foes. 
 
 Goe with him, happie foule, 
 From that forfaken towne; 
 Vpon whofe wals lies not a ftone, 
 But ruine muft throw downe. 
 
 Follow his feet that goes 
 
 For to redeeme thy loffe, 
 
 And carries all our fmnes with him 
 
 To canfel on his croffe. 
 
 Behold what multitudes 
 Doe guard thy God about. 
 Who bleeding beares his dying tree 
 Amidft the lewifh rout. 
 
 Looke on with liquid eies, 
 And figh from forrowing mind, 
 To fee the death's-man goe before, 
 The murdering troupes behind :
 
 Miscellaneous Poems. 
 
 Centurion hard at hand, 
 
 The theeues vpon the fide, 
 
 The exclamations, fliouts, and cries, 
 
 The fliame he doth abide. 
 
 Then preffc amongfl the throng, 
 Thyfelfe with forrowes weed; 
 Get very neere to Chrift, and fee 
 What teares the women fhed : 
 
 Teares that did turne him backe, — 
 They were of fuch a force — 
 Teares that did purchafe daughters' names 
 Of father's kind remorfe. 
 
 To whom hee faid, Weepe not: 
 For me drop not a teare; 
 Bewaile your offspring and yourfelues, 
 Greefe's caufe vnfeene is neare. 
 
 Follow their fteps in teares. 
 And with thofe women mourne, 
 But not for Chrift; weepe for thyfelfe, 
 And Chrift will grace returne. 
 
 To Pilat's bold demands 
 
 He yeelded no replie; 
 
 Although the iudge importun'd much. 
 
 Yet filence did denie. 
 
 Vnto his manie words 
 No anfwere Chrift would make; 
 Yet to thofe women did he fpeake. 
 For teares' and weeping' fake.
 
 Miscellaneous Poems. 
 
 Thinke on their force by teares — 
 Teares that obtained loue — 
 Where words too weak could not perfuade, 
 How teares had power to moue. 
 
 Then looke toward lefus' load, 
 More then he could indure, 
 And how for helpe to beare the fame 
 A hireling they procure. 
 
 loine thou vnto the croffe ; 
 Beare it of loue's defire; 
 Doe not as Cyranaeus did, 
 That took it vp for hire. 
 
 It is a gratefull deed, 
 
 If willing vnderta'ne ; 
 
 But if compulfion fet aworke. 
 
 The labour's done in vaine. 
 
 The voluntarie death, 
 That Chrift did die for thee, 
 Giues life to none but fuch as ioy 
 Croffe-bearing friends to be. 
 
 Vp to Mount Caluerie 
 
 If thou defire to goe, 
 
 Then take thy croffe, and follow Chrift; 
 
 Thou canft not miffe it fo. 
 
 When there thou art arriu'd 
 His glorious wounds to fee, 
 Say, but as faithfull as the theefe, 
 O Lord, remember me.
 
 Miscellaneous Poems. 
 
 Affure thyfelfe to haue 
 
 A gift, all gifts excelling, 
 
 Once fold by finne, once bought by Chrift, 
 
 For faints' eternall dwelling. 
 
 By Adam Paradife 
 
 Was finne's polluted fhade: 
 
 By Chrift the dunghill Golgotha 
 
 A Paradife was made. 
 
 CHRIST TO THE WOMEN OF 
 HIERUSALEM. 
 
 WEEPE not, but weepe; ftint tears, (hower eies; 
 Ceafe forrowes, yet begin lament: 
 Weepe for your children and alies ; 
 Weepe not for me, 'tis tears mifpent : 
 Bewaile the offspring of your wombe, 
 Sentenc'd fucceeding vengeance doome. 
 
 No caufe you fhould my cafe bemone; 
 My death's the death of Death and Hell : 
 Great caufe you haue to weepe your owne. 
 And rue the cittie where they dwell : 
 Know how to weepe when greefes complaine. 
 Or teares and fighs are meerly vaine. 
 
 If this be done vnto the tree. 
 
 Green in perfection's perfect prime, 
 
 In what ftate fliall the barren bee 
 
 That's iuiceleffe, drie, and fpent by time.'' 
 
 When thus they fell downe fruitfull greene, 
 
 Where fhall the fruitleffe ftock bee feene.'' 
 
 B
 
 Miscellaneous Poems. 
 
 This was reply without demand 
 
 To tongues, eies, hearts, mute, wet, and weake, 
 
 Vnleffe by teares we vnderftand 
 
 That waterie eies haue power to fpeake : 
 
 Their weeping fpake to lefus' eares; 
 
 He turn'd about, and anfwer'd teares. 
 
 Where fmne-ftain'd Adam firfl was plaft, 
 Three kind of trees were growing there : 
 The firft was for deHcious taft, 
 Fruitful, ordained food to beare : 
 Life's arbour next, which grace did fill ; 
 And knowledge-tree of good and ill. 
 
 Where, fmne's hie ranfome, lefus di'de, 
 Three trees vpon that dunghill stood : 
 One greene with grace; the other dri'de 
 Bearing two theeues, the bad and good : 
 In midft, the tree of life, the croffe. 
 Bare Adam's guilt, reftored his loffe. 
 
 Great negligence, great loue and paines, 
 Firft gardner had, laft did fupplie : 
 His tree was watred from his veines; 
 In Paradife they careleffe die : 
 His blood for his hath moifture bin; 
 His thornes a hedge to guard it in. 
 
 lO
 
 Miscellaneous Poems. 
 
 [From "The Letting of Hvmors Blood in the 
 Head-Vaine, with a new Moriffco, daunced by 
 feauen Satyrcs, vpon the bottome of Diogines 
 Tubbe. At London: Printed by W. White 
 for W. F. 1600," in Cryne's Colle6tion in the 
 Bodleian Library.] 
 
 TO HIS VERY GOOD 
 
 FRIEND M. HVGH 
 LEE ESOUIRE. 
 
 MY right hand, zvith affeSlion doth prefent 
 Thefe Humours to thee, of a kinde intent: 
 That in a paper M err our yon may fee, 
 What madd fantastiques in the worlde there bee: 
 Whofe giddie heads, and apifJi idle bray ties, 
 Are euery hower in new printed vaines: 
 The fcvagg' ring Gttll, an empty Drnme is found. 
 Nothing zvithin, yet makes the greateft found. 
 The Foppe, the Pnncke, the Pander, and the Knaue 
 Signieiir Shift-maker, that mofl odious flaiie, 
 Are all prefented to luditiall vieiu, 
 With other Rafcals of the Damned crew: 
 Behold them all, how each doth a6le his parte ; 
 Deteft their Humours^ with thine honefl hart. 
 
 Yours euer in true affe6lion, 
 
 Samvell Rowlands. 
 
 II
 
 Miscellaneous Poems. 
 
 [From " The Vnmafking of a feminine 
 Machiauell. By Thomas Andrewe, Gent. 
 London: Printed by Simon Stafford, and are 
 to be fold by George Loftes, at the golden Ball 
 in Popes-head Alley. 1604."] 
 
 To his refpe(?l:ed and kind affected 
 
 Friend, My. Thomas An- 
 drewe, Gent= 
 
 N" hungry vaine of profit or of praife 
 _ Inuites thy M^fefaltUe the Printers Preffe: 
 Thou doefi difdainethofe Hackney es ofourdaies, 
 Thatpawne their Poetrie ofmeere diftreffe: 
 Thy pen is but a quill of recreation, 
 Which ferries not thee infiead of occupation. 
 
 But with deare bought experience tutor fi time, 
 
 By trtie vnmafking an incarnate Deuill, 
 No fiftion is thefibie^l of thy Rime, 
 
 But a damitd monfier of deformed euill; 
 
 Whofe portrcicl fo to life thy pen doth touch: 
 I know no Penfill can performefo much. 
 
 Samuel Rowlands. 
 
 Veritas non qucsrit latebras. 
 
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 Miscellaneous Poems. 
 
 [From "The Curtaine-Drawer of the World: or, 
 The Chamberlaine of that great Inne of Iniquity. 
 By W. Parkes Gentleman, and fometimes Student 
 in Barnards Inne. London, Printed for Leonard 
 Becket, and are to be fold at the Temple, neere to 
 the Church. 1612."] 
 
 /;/ Vtilponem. 
 
 THe Fox is earthed now in ground, 
 Who liuing, fear'd not home nor hound, 
 That kept the Huntfmen at a bay, 
 Before their faces ceaz'd his prey. 
 Of whofe fucceffe-fuU thriuing wit, 
 Bookes haue beene made, and playes beene writ, 
 That prey'd on Mallard, Plover, Ducke, 
 And euer fcap'd by craft or lucke : 
 Yet now hee's gone : what though } behinde, 
 Are Cubbes too many of his kinde. 
 Who whilfb by death hee's kept away, 
 Will make a purchafe of his prey. 
 And when the old he left is gone. 
 Will finde out more to worke vpon. 
 
 In Skinners fliops, though fome appeare. 
 
 Tis long before the laft comes there. 
 
 S.R.
 
 Miscellaneous Poems. 
 
 [From the Colle6lion of Broadfides in the Library 
 of Society of Antiquaries, London, No. 142.] 
 
 Sir Thomas Overbvry, 
 
 OR 
 
 The Poyfoned Knights Complaint. 
 
 [A large woodcut, acrofs the fheet, of a fkeleton on a 
 tomb, a tree bearing a fliield grows out of the flceleton; 
 ftanding one at either end of the tomb are figures of Time, 
 with a fcroll round his fcythe, " Time revealeth Trvth," and 
 Jujlice, with a fcroll round her fword, " Ivftice wil right al 
 wTongs." Over the fkeleton's head is the word " Poyfoned ;" 
 and over Juftice's outflretched arm the word " Revenge." 
 
 Within the entablature of the tomb are the following 
 lines : — ] 
 
 Within this houfe of Death, A dead man lies, 
 Whofe blood like Abels vp for vengeance cryes : 
 Time hath reuealed what to trueth belongs, 
 And luftice fword is drawne to right my wrongs: 
 You poyfoned mindes did me with poyfon Kill, 
 Let true Repentance purge you from that ill. 
 
 [The whole cut is about 15 inches wide by 10 deep. The 
 following poem is in two parallel columns immediately 
 under the cut, furrounded by printer's borders.] 
 
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 Miscellaneous Poems. 
 
 GRcat powerfull God, whom all are bound to loue, 
 How graccleffe bad, doth Man (thy Creature) proue? 
 Thy Suprcame Creature ouer all the reft, 
 (In number numberleffe to bee cxpreft,) 
 To whom thou gaueft grace to bee his guide, 
 Reafon with Vndcrftanding, and befide, 
 Thy Law to be direftion for his wayes, 
 Which vnto Sinners view, thy Judgements layes, 
 Thofe fearefull plagues pronounc'd for vgly Sinne, 
 Which with the firft created, did beginne, 
 Who by the Law of Nature vnderftood, 
 To make a difference of bad deedes and good. 
 By which enlightening, that is given vs, 
 No Nation Heathenifh, and Barbarous, 
 ( Farthefl remote from true religions light ) 
 But can diftinguifh betwixt wrong and right, 
 Thofe that to CJiriJl did neuer yet belong, 
 Can tell they do amiffe, when they do wrong, 
 And that there is a luftice to be done, 
 And fliamefuU a6lions, which they are to fhun, 
 Yet neuer age, fmce Nature firft began, 
 Wherein man was not Deuill vnto man, 
 In praflifmg moft oppofite to kinde. 
 Inhumane a6lions out of bloody minde. 
 Behold the firft that in the World was borne, 
 With his reie6led Sacrifice of Corne, 
 Becaufe his Brothers gifts more grace did yeeld. 
 Lift vp his hand againft him in the field, 
 And with a cruell hart obdurate ill. 
 Did innocent pure-thoughted Abell kill. 
 When loab fent for Abuer (as a friend) 
 Hee came to Hebron, for a peaceful! end. 
 Where, as in armes hee lent a cheerefull fmile, 
 He gaue his heart a mortall ftab the while. 
 Gods holy Hiftory hath many more 
 Humane records. Innumerable ftore, 
 
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 Miscellaneous Poems. 
 
 What intercepting hath there bin of Hues, 
 By Piflolls, Stabbing, Powder, Daggers, Kniues: 
 Drowning and Hanging, and ftrange murthering? 
 As fecond Edzvard, fometimes Englands King, 
 Whom an incarnate Diuell did torment, 
 With red hot Spit into his fundament. 
 Some in their beds haue a6led tragick Scenes, 
 As thofe two Princes, which by Glojiers meanes, 
 (Their cruell Vncle, Fathers vnkind Brother) 
 Villaines betweene the fheetes to death did fmother. 
 Some in vnwonted manner done to death, 
 As George the Duke of Clarence loft his breath, 
 When with heeles vpwards he was ftrangely put, 
 To fuffer drowning in a Malmefey But 
 Yet befides all thefe damned plots to kill, 
 And thoufands more from Hell tranfported ftill, 
 The Diuell hath a poyfon working Art, 
 In which of late I fhar'd a mortall part. 
 A Rapier drawne, and at thy heart aim'd iuft, 
 May be put by and made a broken thruft: 
 A Dagger ofifer'd for anothers paine, 
 Hath bin return'd into the fhabbers braine: 
 A Piftoll fhot with an intent to kill, 
 Hath mift the marke, and party liuing ftill : 
 But this life-killing poyfon, cureles foe, 
 The bodies hopeles, helples ouerthrowe: 
 Brings with it nothing but pale deaths command, 
 Depriuing life with a remorfeles hand. 
 Oh facred Itijlicc\ euermore renound 
 In thy vprightnes of reuenge late found : 
 Proceede v/ith vengeance as thou didft begin, 
 To punifli Games moft bloody crying fmne: 
 Let not a murtherer remaine conceal'd. 
 Nor breath aliue when being once reueal'd: 
 This is the fuite Avrong'd Innocents doe craue. 
 This is the luftice that the Heauens will haue. 
 
 Samuel Roivlands. 
 
 I77iprinted at Londoji for lohn White. 
 
 i6
 
 Miscellaneous Poems. 
 
 [From "The Teares of Love: or, Cupids Pro- 
 greffe, Compofed by Thomas Collins. London, 
 Printed by George Purjlowe for Henry Bell, and 
 are to be fold at his fhoppe without Bifhopfgate. 
 
 1615."] 
 
 To his affefled friend M after 
 
 Thomas Collins. 
 
 THy tvelL %vrit Poevi, Siveet compofed lines, 
 Delightfidi fubiecl, and rigJit inodejl pen, 
 With iitft applanfe, cuen defertfnll Jliines 
 In cleere-eyd cenfure of befl itidging men. 
 Like to thy SJiepJieards flockes, as zvhite as cleane, 
 Partaking notJiing, fordid or obfceane. 
 
 Thy l^owQvs-T cdLYQs, fJieiv Loners dolefullfafJiion, 
 
 (As fable habit fntes a inournef ill heart,) 
 
 A fpriglitly line hath poiver to moue covipaffioti, 
 
 Andfuch a lymnier to the life thou art, 
 
 Let Momus breath, vanifli like pipe of f moke, 
 
 All zvifemen knoiv, Detra6lions credit's broke. 
 
 Samuell Rowlands. 
 
 n
 
 Well met Gofsip: 
 
 OR, 
 
 Tis merrie when 
 
 Gofsips meete 
 NEWLY ENLARGED WITH 
 
 diuers merrie Songs. 
 
 LONDON, 
 
 [Printed by /. W. for lohn Deane and are to be fold at his| 
 
 Shop iuft vnder Temple-barre 1619. 
 
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 Miscellaneous Poems. 
 
 [The Songs which follow were firft printed in the 
 edition of " Tis Merrie when Goffips Meete," 1619 
 (Sig. C i.). As the title to this edition contains 
 a very curious woodcut, it is given in facfimile on 
 the oppofite page,] 
 
 Mufitians conies in. 
 
 Couffen, heer's Fidlers, lets heare a Song; Widdow. 
 But looke my friends, it be a pleafing thing. 
 
 I am afraid then we fhall flay too long. Mayde. 
 
 No, no, I warrant; come on, quickly fmg. Widdow. 
 
 Let it touch men I pray in any cafe; Wife. 
 
 This Youth (mee thinkes) will doe it with a grace. 
 
 w 
 
 The Songe. 
 
 Hat's a womans chiefe delight.' 
 To giue man his hearts content : 
 How doth hee the fame requite .-' 
 Loue her till the fport be fpent; 
 You that doubt it, doe but try, 
 Men will flatter, cogge, and lye. 
 
 With bewitching words they fue, 
 Vowing conftant faith and loue; 
 Women thinke their oathes be true, 
 Till (poore foules) they trie and prooue, 
 Then they finde, when helpe is paft, 
 For a night their loue doth laft. 
 
 Their owne Stories tell their Hues, 
 How vnconftant they haue dealt; 
 
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 Miscellaneous Poems. 
 
 Honeft Widdoioes, Maydes, and Wines, 
 
 Haue their double dealing felt: 
 
 All will fay that are not blinde, 
 Men are falfe, and Women kinde. 
 
 When they vow, truft not their fwearing, 
 When they fmile, thinke they will frow[n]e, 
 Giue their flattering but the hearing, 
 If they can, thei'le put you downe : 
 Since they feeke your ouerthrow, 
 Keepe them from the thing you know. 
 
 For to be in great requeft, 
 Make your loue exceeding ftrange, 
 Trie good earneft out in ieft: 
 Deale with flatterers by change: 
 
 As they come, fo let them paffe; 
 
 Turne diffemblers out to graffe. 
 
 FINIS. 
 
 NOw God-amercy Boy, this Song is true, Widdow. 
 
 I prethee drinke, tis good to mend thy voice. Wife. 
 Hafl: thou not fuch another that is new.'' 
 Yes, I haue one is call'd, The Maydes bad choyce: Boy. 
 Pen'd by a Mayde her felfe, whofe conftant truth 
 Was lately wronged by a Merchants Youth. 
 
 Widdoiv. Sing it prethee. 
 
 The Song. 
 
 YOu London Maides, giue eare to me. 
 That am in Loue your owne, 
 And borne within the Citie walles, 
 Well friended, and well knowne. 
 
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 Miscellaneous Poems. 
 
 My felfe I will not fceme to praife, 
 
 It were a note of pride : 
 What beautie there is in my face, 
 
 Or comely limbes befide. 
 
 My ready witte, and quicke conceit 
 
 To breake a nimble ieft; 
 And all good parts and qualities, 
 
 I mcanc to let them reft. 
 
 The Art I hauc in Needle-worke, 
 
 Imbrod'ry rich in Gold: 
 With Lace and Stich, and euery thing, 
 
 That may or can be told. 
 
 For Dauncing, and my skill in Song, 
 
 I muft, and will be mute: 
 My playing on the Virginals, 
 
 And tickling of the Lute. 
 
 He burie all mine owne good parts, 
 
 And of a Youth will fpeake ; 
 Whofe moft vnkinde bad qualities, 
 
 Doth make my heart to breake. 
 
 How hee is calde, I will conceale, 
 
 And not reueale the fame; 
 Becaufe He leaue him like a lew. 
 
 Without a Chriftian name, 
 
 Hee plide mee long, as Suters doe, 
 
 (I meane thefe fubtill men) 
 And wee had often meeting too, 
 
 It skils not where, and when. 
 
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 Miscellaneous Poems. 
 
 Hee vow'd hee lou'd mee conftantly. 
 
 Farre dearer then his life; 
 And would himfelf, deftroy himfelfe, 
 
 Except I were his wife. 
 
 I being (as poore wenches bee) 
 Moft kinde, where loue doth fting : 
 
 Confented too, (I fhame to tell:) 
 And let him doe the thing. 
 
 This done, which cannot be vndone, 
 (Tis now fixe months too late;) 
 
 I am turn'd off, my Youth hath got 
 Another louing mate. 
 
 One that hath neither witte nor wealth, 
 
 Beautie, nor comely grace: 
 One that is Kitchin-lluffe to mee, 
 
 Her ftocke is knowen fo bafe. 
 
 Fie, who would truft this wicked world .? 
 
 Maidens take heed, be wife: 
 I am not Widdozu, Wife, nor Mayde, 
 
 But of another fize. 
 
 FINIS. 
 
 I Like this Song exceeding wel indeed: Mayde. 
 
 Heer's fixe pence toward the Mufickwith my heart. 
 Beffe, tis good warning wench for you ; take heed. Wife. 
 He fee him hang'd, would play me fuch a part : Mayde. 
 
 Hee that fhould come and offer but to feele, 
 I would en'e fcorne that fellow with my heele. 
 
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 Miscellaneous Poems. 
 
 [The following additional verfes are given in the 
 edition of 1619, and fhould be read between the laft 
 and fecond laft verfes in the edition of 1602.] 
 
 Now Gentlewomen, I intreate you fpeakc, Vintner. 
 
 And name the wine, a pinte I will goe fill. 
 
 No William, no; there's many Vintners breake, Wife. 
 
 Let it alone, prethee, kinde hearted Will, 
 It is enough, if you one rule doe keepe. 
 And that is this; Nicke not your Pots too deepe. 
 
 There is much knauery in your trade for that, 
 Which will not thriue, who euer vfe the fame : 
 Draw briske to Londoners, let Clownes drinke flat, 
 That take in wine but onely for the name ; 
 
 Out-face the Fooles, but with a cogging tale, 
 For all their iudgement's in a pot of Ale. 
 
 You can perfwade them that their tafte is bad, 
 And boaffc your wine, that there's no better drawne, 
 The like in London is not to be had; 
 When all is falfe, and but an outward fawne. 
 
 Couffen, wee know Vintners can doe amiffe, Widdow. 
 
 Butwemighthauedrunke Williains'^m\.Q.\>Y\K\s. 
 
 Troth you fhall haue it inftantly, I runne. Vintner. 
 
 Why this is your fault Couffen, you'le not leaue. Wife. 
 
 Tut, hang him knaue: this pinte, and we haue done, Widdoiv. 
 
 So much in meafure, hee did vs deceiue; 
 
 Did you not marke how e'ry Pot lackt filling, 
 Wee'le take it kindly, caufe hee giues it willing. 
 
 Heere Gentlewomen, and I thanke you all. Vintner. 
 
 This is a cuppe of Clarret doth excell. Wife. 
 
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 Miscellaneous Poems. 
 
 At any time, when you doe pleafe to call, Vintner. 
 
 Vpon my honeftie He vfe you well, 
 
 While with my Mafter I remaine a dweller, 
 You fhall command the belt that's in the Seller. 
 
 [From the folio edition of John Taylor the Water- 
 Poet's Works, 1630^ Sig. Bbb 3.] 
 
 To my louing Friend lohn Taylor. 
 
 FErris gaue caufe of vulgar wonderment, 
 When vnto Brijlow in a boat he went; 
 Another with his Sculler ventured more, 
 That row'd to FluJJiing from our Englifli llioare. 
 Another did deuife a woodden Whale, 
 Which vnto Callice did from Doner faile, 
 Another with his Oares and flender Wherry, 
 From London vnto Antwerpe o're did Ferry. 
 Another maugre fickle fortunes teeth, 
 Rowed hence to Scotland and arriu'd at Leeth. 
 But thou haft made all thefe but triuiall things. 
 That from the Tower thy watry Sculler brings 
 To Hellicon: moft facred in account, 
 And fo arriued at Pernaffus Mount : 
 And backe return'd Laden with Poets wit, 
 With all the Mufes hands to witneffe it; 
 Who on their Sculler doth this praife beftow. 
 Not fuch another on the Thames doth row. 
 
 Thy loning Friend, Sam: Rowlands. 
 
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 NOTES TO THE WORKS 
 
 OF 
 
 SAMUEL ROWLANDS
 
 NOTES 
 
 I.— THE BETRAYING OF CHRIST, 1598. 
 
 PAGE LINE 
 
 3 lafl. " wherof . . . floates with," &c., i.e., wherof par- 
 taking, // floats. 
 58" Cmthia" Diana, the moon, fo called from her birth- 
 place, Cyfithtts, in the Ifland of Delos. — Cf. 
 Spenfer, Faery Qiieene, I. i. 39. 
 10 " were come to lateft fine," i.e.^ had finally ceafed to 
 exifl. 
 13, 14 Thefe lines mean, all winged creatures having cleared 
 up their account with day, i.e., having duly fung 
 their daily fong, had gone to reft. 
 63" Difpenfmg," i.e., excepting, making an exception in 
 
 favour of. 
 7 22 See Numbers xvi. 32, 33. 
 
 23 "Seandale" read "fcandale,'" i.e., infult, offence. 
 811 Kings xiii. 4. 
 
 8 Adls ix. 1-9. 
 9 II " He muft needs go whom the devil drives." — Hazlitt's 
 Proverbs, &c. 
 
 10 6 " This greene had ferpents, " &c. This is apparently 
 
 the proverbial faying, " latet anguis in herba," there 
 is a fnake in the grafs. — Cf Spenfer, Faery Qiteene, 
 I. ix. 28 — 
 
 "As fnake in hidden weedes." 
 7 2 Samuel iii. 27. 
 
 11 II 2 Samuel xii. 13. 
 
 12 8 Matthew xxvi. 53. 
 
 17 '' falfe," i.e., falfely. The ufe of the adjective for the 
 adverb is common.
 
 Notes. 
 
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 14 I The meaning is: "Thou, Gehazi, canfl no longer lay 
 
 exclufive claim to the fin of covetoufnefs, for my 
 
 fhare in that fin exceeds thine. " 
 Luke X. 42. 
 " Sound confcience well," &c., i.e., a found confcience 
 
 tvhen well or clear is faid to be like, &c. , . . . 
 
 and wJien corrupted, is fitly compared, &c. 
 Matthew xxv. 32, 41. 
 Matthew xxii. 11-14. 
 " corre6l it," i.e., corredl him for it. 
 John xii. 3-4. "turn'd thy fweet," i.e.., turned to thy 
 
 advantage. 
 
 19 T, 2 " guiltleffe waft, controld," &c., /,<?., with what falfenefs 
 
 did I wifli thy innocent wafte ftopped, and the 
 ointment faved. 
 7 " Like Sampfon till," &c. 
 15 The word "purchafe" had at this time not only the 
 modern meaning of anything obtained in exchange 
 for money or other valuable confideration, but 
 was alfo applied to anything diflioneftly or dif- 
 gracefully come by. — See Gloffary. Shakfpere, 
 Henry V., iii. 2, fhows the tranfition when he 
 writes — 
 
 "They will ileal anything, and call it — piirchace.^'' 
 
 In Spenfer, Faery Qiieene, I. iii. 16, we find — 
 
 " On his backe a heavy load he bare 
 Of nightly ftelths, and pillage feverall, 
 Which he had got abroad hy pure has criminal!." 
 
 It is from the Fr. pourchajfer, to hunt after; 
 
 thence, to catch, feize, rob; thence, to buy. 
 18 "that I lou'd," z>., that rcz/wV/z I loved. The omiffion 
 
 of the relative is very common in Shakfpere and 
 
 writers of that period. 
 20 " their intreft," i.e., my fhare in, or claim to, them. 
 
 20 15 Matthew xxvi. 22, 25.
 
 Notes. 
 
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 21 3 " putchas'd," read " purchas'd." 
 
 8 "I fliould ben mangled," i.e., I ought to have been 
 mangled. 
 
 23 23 " They would retire," &c., i.e., they would draw back 
 
 (Fr. rettrer, Lat. retrahere) themfelves from the 
 fearful courfe of the world to perdition, fo as to 
 avoid, &c. — Compare p. 36, 1. 19. 
 
 24 1 1 The accent is on the fecond fyllable in " enuying," as 
 
 in Shakfpere, Richard II., i. — 
 
 " Until the heavens, envyhig earth's good hap ;" 
 And Taming of the Shrew, ii. i, 18: — 
 " Is it for him you do envy me fo?" 
 
 The fame ufe is followed by Spenfer. 
 13 Greedy of gain on earth, even though obtained by or 
 
 involving the lofs of heaven. 
 24 " The wages of fm is death." '' Pale death," the pallida 
 
 mors of the claffics. 
 
 25 4 "Xpian,"z>., " Chriftian," from the facred monogram 
 
 ]^, the Chi, Rho, the two fiirfl letters of the 
 word Chrift. The meaning is: A follower of 
 Chrifl outwardly, but not at all in heart. 
 
 21 ''Conuerfe remaine of Time," &c., i.e., for the reft of 
 Time be affociated with all impiety. The word 
 
 > ' ■: converfe is ufed in its original Latin fenfe, con- 
 
 veffari, to dwell, pafs one's time away. 
 
 24 "Wrap me," &c., i.e., "Hide me from the eyes of all, 
 oh dark night !" Infert a comma after eies. 
 
 26 I " Sauls frightful! guefl," i.e., madnefs. — See i Samuel 
 
 xxvi. 14-23. 
 13 " Not to difraount," &c., i.e., not to throw myfelf from 
 fome lofty precipice, nor inflifl on myfelf a hideous 
 flab with a dagger, nor to drown myfelf 
 
 17 See 2 Samuel xviii. 9, and Eflher vii. 10. 
 
 18 2 Samuel xvii. 23. 
 
 27 6 Adls i. 18. 
 
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 Notes. 
 
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 28 I "The watchfull bird," ?>., the cock. 
 
 II "a rocke," in allufion to his name Peter, which, in the 
 Greek, is a ftone or rock. — Cf. Matthew xvi. 18. 
 
 30 12 "he fwaied mofl," &c., i.e., he carried niofl fway, or 
 
 had mofl influence, who could deride moil. 
 
 31 I I Samuel xxxi. 4. 
 
 17 In proportion as his offence was leafl, his griefs and 
 pains were greater. 
 
 32 3 2 Kings ii. 23. 
 
 7 Such wrongs, as compared with thofe luffered by our 
 Lord, are not worthy to be called wrongs. 
 
 33 8 ''Farre extending humane fence," i.e., far exceeding 
 
 man's underflanding. The fpelling humane is 
 conflantly ufed by Shakfpere. 
 
 35 12 " Preuenting him," &c., i.e., anticipating and difappoint- 
 
 ing the Devil who had long hoped for it. 
 
 36 3 Samuel, the fon of Hannah. — See i Samuel ii. 21. 
 4 Judges xi. 34-40. 
 
 37 I Rowlands feems to underftand the vnoxdSofi in "Woman 
 
 behold thy fon," as meaning our Lord, but the^ 
 paffage, John xix. 25-27, points to St. John as the 
 perfon meant, our Lord's words fignifying appa- 
 rently that the Virgin and St. John were to be as 
 Mother and Son, as is evidenced by the lafl verfe — 
 "from that hour that difciple took her to his own 
 home." 
 39 2 "My God, who am," &c., i.e., the God of me, who 
 myfelf am true God, &c. A claffical ufage. 
 
 "to thofe denide," &c., i.e., to thofe who denied, &c. 
 
 John iv. 5-26. 
 
 Compare note to Hell's Broke Loofe, p. 38, 1. 18. 
 
 " publicke," i.e., publicly. — See note on p. 12, 1. 17. 
 
 Judges iv. 19. 
 
 " Efay," i.e., Ifaiah. 
 
 Genefis iii. 15. 
 
 I Kings ii. 5. 
 
 40 
 
 6 
 
 41 
 
 7 
 
 
 II 
 
 
 13 
 
 42 
 
 15 
 
 43 
 
 13 
 
 
 16 
 
 45 
 
 7 

 
 Notes. 
 
 PAGE tINE 
 
 45 II To cut fliort the natural duration of his life. — Cf. 
 Letting of Humou7's. Blood in the Head- Vaine, &c., 
 p. 8i, 1. 3. 
 
 47 16 '' No fuite of clay," i.e., no prayers of men. 
 
 48 5 John XV. 13. 
 
 20 "What moment," &c., i.e., at what moment was he 
 
 free from, or without, pain and grief? 
 
 21 •' addes," ufed intranfitively = is added. 
 
 24 What people is there whom his death did not affeft 
 in the highefl degree? 
 
 50 16 In the Atirea Legenda, CQ.-^. xlvii., we are told that: 
 " Longinus fuit quidam centurio, qui cum aliis 
 militibus cruci domini adflans iuffu Pylati latus 
 domini lancea perforauit, et uidens figna quae 
 fiebant, folem fcilicet obfcuratum, et terrae motum, 
 in Chrillum credidit. Maxime ut eo, ut quidam 
 dicunt, quod cum ex infirmitate uel fenedlute 
 oculi eius caligaffent, de fanguine Chrifli per 
 lanceam decurrente fortuito oculos fuos tetigit, et 
 protinus clare uidit." The day of S. Longinus is 
 March 15. — See Chambers's Book of Days. Allu- 
 fions to the legend are common in early Englifh 
 writers. — See, for inflance, Legends of the Holy 
 Rood, ed. Morris (Early Englifli Text Society), 
 pp. xix. 100; Old EnglifJi Homilies, ed. Morris, 
 i. 282; The Towjieley Myfieries, p. 231; Piers 
 Plow7nan, ed. Skeat, xxi. 82; &c. 
 
 59 22 Allow this lafl fervice to be ended. 
 
 II.— THE LETTING OF HVMOVRS BLOOD IN THE 
 HEAD-VAINE, 1600. 
 
 35" Richard the ufurper." Is this a reference to Shak- 
 fpere's Richard LIL., publillied 1597? 
 
 4 10 "a Lordfliip on his backe," i.e., the value of a Lordfhip 
 fpent in drefs.
 
 PAGE LINE 
 
 Notes. 
 
 7 I ''Monfieur Domingo is a fkilfuU man." This word is 
 
 the chorus of a drinking fong quoted by Mailer 
 Silence in his exuberant fit of revelry at Juflice 
 Shallow's manfion. 
 
 "Do me right, and dub me knight, 
 
 Samingo." 
 
 In the Variorum edition, the firfl verfe of the fong 
 is given with the burthen corre6led to Dommgo. 
 — Sir Walter Scott. 
 
 6 " fmgle penny lyn'd," /.if., filled with the cheapell beer. 
 
 Penny ale is common thin ale, and is mentioned 
 in P. Plowjnan, ed. Skeat, B. Text, xv. 310, as 
 fit only for flri6l -living friars. It was fold at a 
 penny a gallon, while the befl ale was 4d. — See 
 Liher Alhus, pp. 274, 311; Strutt, Manners and 
 Oijloms, ii. 81; Babies Book, ed. Furnivall, p. 208. 
 Compare Tis Merrie when Goffips meete, p. 3, 1. 17. 
 
 8 3 "He paunch the villian with my Rapiers poynt." This 
 
 is a phrafe ufed by Caliban in his propofal for 
 murdering Profpero \TempeJl, iii. 2, 88]: 
 
 " with a log 
 
 Batter his fcuU, or paunch him with a flake. " 
 — Sir Walter Scott. 
 
 7 '•' patch," a word of frequent occurrence in Shakfpere. 
 
 — See MzdftimmerNighfs Dream, iii. 2,9; Macbeth, 
 V. 3, 15, &c. Florio gives '■'■ Pazzo, a foole, a 
 patch, a madman," and this is probably the cor- 
 re6l derivation 5f the word, though fome refer it 
 to the motley or patched coat of a jeller. Tuffer, 
 ed. Herrtage, p. 115, ft. 32, ufes it in the fenfe of 
 a country clown, farm labourer — 
 
 " From Maie to mid Auguft, an hower or two, 
 Let patch fleepe a fnatch, how foeuer ye do." 
 
 15 " Then for to drinke a pipe of Trinedado." To drink 
 tobacco was one of the affedled phrafes of the
 
 Notes, 
 
 gallants of that age. In the Jioari?ig Girl of 
 Middleton and Dekkar, Saxton, one of the 
 humorifls of the piece, after commending " a 
 pipe of rich fmoke," has a parcel of the fame 
 tobacco made up for him, obferving, " this will 
 ferve to drink at my chamber." And in an 
 interlude entitled, Wiiie, Beer, Ale, and Tobacco 
 cofitending for fuperioj'ity, Tobacco is made 
 to fay, 
 
 " What, do ye fland at gaze? 
 
 Tobacco is a drink too. 
 
 Beer. A drink? 
 
 Tobacco. Wine, you and I come both out of a pipe." 
 
 Many other authorities for this conceited ex- 
 preflion might be quoted. — Sir Walter Scott, 
 
 II II " His Hofe to Brokers layle committed are, 
 His fmguler, and onely, Veluet payre." 
 
 A calamity fimilar to that which occafioned this 
 gallant's indifpofition, impofed filence upon one of 
 the bravefl warriors of the 15th century. After the 
 field of Shrewfbury, in which 
 
 " The Percy and the Douglas both together 
 Were confident againfl the world in anns," 
 
 the latter champion, it is well known, was wounded 
 and made prifoner. Having received his hurt in 
 a part of the body too ignoble to be mentioned, 
 Godfcroft affures us that when, " after the battell 
 every man was reckoning his wounds, and com- 
 plaining, the earl faid at lafl, when he had heard 
 them all, 'They fit full flill that have a riven breike.' 
 The fpeech continueth flill in Scotland, and is pafl 
 into a proverb, which is ufed to defign fuch as have 
 fome hidden and fecret caufe to complain and fay 
 but little." — Hijlory of the Houfe of Douglas and 
 A}igu$, ed. 1644, p. 120. —Sir Walter Scott. 
 
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 21 6 " many graines too light," &c. There is a play here on 
 the word "angel," which was alfo a coin, varying 
 in value from 6s. 8d. to i os. In the next line 
 the play is kept up on the word "flone," one of the 
 meanings of which is the tefling flone for gold. 
 
 25 13 " difchargeth," pays for. 
 
 28 I " Signeur Sacke and Suger, 
 
 When calling for a quart of Charnico." 
 
 This phrafe brings us home to Falflaff, from 
 whofe dramatic hiflory it was probably borrowed. 
 "What fays Sir John Sack and Sugar?" Charnico 
 is a wine mentioned in the 2d part of Henry VI., 
 A61 ii. fc. 3. " And, neighbour, here's a cup of 
 Charnico." The critics conceive it derived its 
 name from having the flavour of turpentine, 
 Charneco in Spanifh fignifying a turpentine-tree. 
 If this interpretation be corre6l, we need not 
 regret the difufe of Charneco in our modern 
 times. — Sir Walter Scott. 
 
 29 10 "To drinke amongfl you." — See note to p. 8, 1. 15, 
 
 above, and compare p. 77, 1. 22-3. 
 
 32 7 For the " Lord of Mifrule," fee Brand's Popular An- 
 tiquities, i. 272; Strutt, Manners and Cujloms, 
 ii. 200, &c. 
 
 :i2> I " Aflce Humors why a Feather he doth weare? 
 It is his humor (by the Lord) heele fweare." 
 
 The whole of this epigram defcribes one of thofe 
 diffolute coxcombs mentioned by Jonfon in a 
 paffage quoted in the preface, who termed each 
 conceited peculiarity of drefs and manner, his 
 htimo7ir, and vindicated his Angularity as a quality 
 befitting a fine gentleman. The worthy Corporal 
 Nym hath this apology ufually at his finger-ends, 
 and Shylock himfelf condefcends to excufe his 
 extravagant cruelty as a humour, or irrefiftible 
 propenfity of the mind. I do not obferve that 
 
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 Notes. 
 
 I'AGIC T.INE 
 
 the commentators have noticed that, in the Jew's 
 celebrated anfwer to the duke, the expreffion, 
 " But fay it is my Jmmoiir — Is it anfwered?" 
 
 the word humour is not ufed in its modern 
 fignification, but in that which it bears through 
 thefe fatires, a pecuHar quaUty, namely, which 
 fways and maflers the individual through all his 
 a6lions. Accordingly Shylock proceeds to illus- 
 trate his innate antipathy to Anthonio by fmiilar 
 natural loathings. — Sir Walter Scott. 
 
 33 14 Why he is fo perfecuted by bailififs. 
 17 " Obie61," i.e., if you afk. 
 
 34 I "cros-leffe curffe," i.e., the misfortune or curfe of 
 
 being pennilefs. — See Gloffary, croffe. 
 
 35 9 " to worke he went : 
 
 Makeing the Dog fhe held, a grim Cattes face." 
 
 This lady's diflike to being reprefented in fuch 
 company, was not univerfal in the feventeenth 
 century. The celebrated Countefs of Pembroke 
 and Montgomery, among the numerous portraits 
 preferved of her, at Appleby Caflle, is in one re- 
 prefented with a very large black cat fitting befide 
 her foot. — Sir Walter Scott. 
 
 36 7 " In euery flreete where any Gallant goes, 
 
 The fwagg'ring Sloppe is Tarltons clownifh hofe." 
 The breeches in James I.'s time fwelled to a moft 
 uncouth and prepoflerous fize, and were fluffed 
 out with bags and other bombafl, and fometimes 
 with bran. Thefe were called trunk-hofe. Bulwer, 
 in the Artificial Changeling tells of a gallant in 
 whofe immenfe gally-gafkins a fmall hole was torn 
 by a nail of the chair he fat upon, fo that, as he 
 turned and wriggled to pay his court to the ladies, 
 the bran poured forth as from a mill that was 
 grinding, without his perceiving it, till half the 
 cargo was unladed on the floor. It would feem 
 
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 Notes. 
 
 TAGE LINE 
 
 in Queen Elizabeth's time fuch large breeches were 
 part of the clown's drefs, in which character Tar- 
 leton was very famous. — Sir Walter Scott. 
 38 5 On the charafler of the Dutch for drinking, fee 
 Andrew Boorde's Introdn^ion to Knowledge, ed. 
 Furnivall, pp. 147, 149, 337, &c. ; the " Libel of 
 Englifli Polecie," printed in Wright's Political 
 Songs, ii. 1 69-171; and Shakfpere, MerchaJit of 
 Venice, i. 2, 76, and Othello, ii. 3, 80. 
 
 38 10 *' How rare his fpurres doth ring the moris-daunce." It 
 
 was the fafhion of the time to wear gilded fpurs, 
 with rowels of a prodigious fize and fantaflic fliape, 
 which clanked and rung as the gallants walked, 
 like the bells which morrice dancers faflened 
 to their ancles. Spurs of their fafliion are flill 
 preferved by the curious, and may alfo be feen in 
 old paintings. " I had fpurs of mine own before," 
 fays Fungofo, in Every Man out of his Humour, 
 " but they were not ginglers." — Sir Walter Scott. 
 
 39 12 In Sloane MS., 1585, leaf 152, will be found a recipe 
 
 for the " laflvc," the components of which are the 
 yolk of a new-laid egg, honey, and fine fait. 
 
 24 " fome pippin Squier." A pippin, or apple 
 
 fquire, whatever be its original derivation, is, in 
 old plays and poems, ufed as fynonimous to a pan- 
 dar. Cavalero Shift, his trade being allied to that 
 of Sir Pandarus of Troy, was, among other appel- 
 lations " as a poor efquire about the town,"' called 
 occafionally Mr. Apple-John. It is in this capacity 
 that his bills fet him forth as one '•' who can ferve 
 in the nature of a gentleman uflier, and hath little 
 legs of purpofe, and a black fattin fute of his own 
 to go before her in . . . and can hide her 
 face with her fan if need require, or fit in the cold 
 at the (lair foot for her, as well as another gentle- 
 man." Such a property was the fubjedl of the 
 
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 l>AOE LINE 
 
 thirty-lburtli [thirty-third] epigram become to his 
 imperious confort. — Sir Walter Scott. 
 
 41 I " Seuerus is extreame in eloquence." The whole of 
 this thirty-fixth [thirty-fifth] epigram is in the 
 vein of Don Armado, in Love's Labour's I^oji, 
 who addreffes his page Moth very much in the 
 bombaflic flyle of Severiis's converfation with his 
 boy. — Sir Walter Scott. 
 
 44 3 Compare Shakfpere, Macbeth^ iii. 4, 119 — 
 
 '"'■Stand not !ipo)i tlie order of your going, 
 But go at once." 
 
 46 I '"'■ Bot wote you now, whither the buzard walkes? 
 I, into Paules forfooth." 
 
 St. Paul's was the rendezvous of all the idle and 
 diffipated perfons of the period, as well as of thofe 
 whom ferious bufinefs, or a defire to learn the 
 news of the day, led to frequent a place of public 
 refort. Being a place privileged from arrefls, it 
 afforded confiderable convenience to the firfl of 
 thefe defcriptions. One whole fcene of Every 
 Man out of his Humour is laid among the loiterers 
 who frequented the weflern and middle aille of 
 Paul's, which Sir Faflidious Brifl-c affe6ledly terms 
 Mediterraneo. It cannot be forgotten that there 
 Falflaff picked up his trufly follower Bardolph. 
 Ofbourne alfo informs us, that it was the fafhion, 
 from the time of James I., down to that of the 
 Commonwealth, " for the principal gentry, lords, 
 courtiers, and men of all profeffions, not merely 
 mechanics, to meet in St. Paul's church by eleven, 
 and walk in middle aifle till twelve, and after 
 dinner from three to fix," and that by attending 
 to the news which were there daily current, he 
 himfelf picked up a reafonable modicum of 
 political information. — Sir Walter Scott. 
 
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 47 1 8 " runs byas on affaires," runs headlong, unceafingly. 
 
 " jBiac^, a Hope, a bias." — HoUyband. 
 
 48 13 " Men without heades," &c. — See Sir John Maunde- 
 
 vile's Travels, ed. HalUwell, p. 203 : " And in 
 another Yle, towarde the Southe, duellen folk of 
 foule Stature and of curfed kynde, that han no 
 Hedes: and here Eyne ben inhere Scholdres." 
 Again, in Holland's Fhnj, v. 8 : " The Blommyi, 
 by report, have no heads, but mouth and eies both 
 in their breast." — See alfo ibid., vii. 2 ; and Ge/ia 
 Rommiorum, Early Englifh Tra<5l Society, 1879, 
 ed. Herrtage, Tale 175, p. 529. 
 16 ''penthoufe." — Compare Decker, GtdVs Horn-Book, 
 p. 79: "The two eyes are the glaffe windowes at 
 which light difperfes itfelf into every roome, having 
 goodly pcnthoiifes of haire to overfhaddow them." 
 
 52 6 "Long-lane" was "A Place alfo of Note for the fale 
 
 of Apparel, Linnen, and Upholflers' goods, both 
 Second-hand and New, but chiefly for Old, for 
 which it is of Note." — Stow's Survey of London, 
 ed. Strype, I., Bk. iii. p. 112, col. 2. 
 
 " As many Fox-fkins as wille fui-re his Long- Lane gowne." 
 T0711 of all Trades, ed. Furnivall, p. 165, 1. 12. 
 
 53 21 "His Jacket faced with motheaten Budge." Budge 
 
 was probably fome paltry imitation of velvet. 
 The word in Queen Elizabeth's time was ufed to 
 fignify the allowance of liquor iffued to thofe 
 who attended upon her progreffes. — Sir Walter 
 Scott. — [See Strutt, ii. 102, and Fairholt's 
 Pageants, i. 66.] 
 
 54 7 "chardges," expenfe.— So Tuffer, p. 173, ch. 84, 2— 
 
 " Som drieth with flrawe, & fome drieth with wood 
 Wood aflceth more charge, and nothing fo good." 
 
 5^ I " Kinde-heart, in drawing out a tooth." Kind- 
 heart is fometimes mentioned by authors of the 
 
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 Notes. 
 
 I'AGE LINE 
 
 period as a fort of quack-do6lor. Henry Chettle, 
 an obfcure dramatic author, wrote a pamphlet 
 called Kind-hearf s Dream. — Sir Walter Scott. 
 
 58 10 "giue him fixe at feuen;" as we fliould fay, give him a 
 
 flart of fix in feuen. 
 14 "iuggling Kings," &c., cheating tricks at cards. 
 
 59 2 " But come to Dice; why that's his onely trade, 
 
 Michell Mum-chaunce, his owne Inuention made." 
 Alluding probably to a pamphlet entitled, Mihil 
 Mtim-chainice his Difcovcry of the Art of cheating 
 in Falfe Dyce Play, without a date. It is afcribed 
 by Mr. Rcid to Robert Greene, but, as appears to 
 Mr. Haflewood, on doubtful! authority. See 
 Ceiifiira Literaria, vol. viii. p. 390. The Fullams, 
 Bardquater-tray, High and Low men, &c., men- 
 tioned in the fubfequent lines, were various kinds 
 of loaded or falfe dice. Some of the terms are yet 
 ufed among fharpers. Hence the confolation of 
 Pillol when difmiffed by Falllaff, that 
 
 " Gourd znAfullam holds, 
 
 And high and low beguile the rich and poor." 
 Meny Wives of JVindfor, Adl i. fc. 3. 
 
 — Sir Walter Scott. 
 
 [Cotgrave has " Chance: The game at dice called 
 Mumchance, or fuch another," Silence appears to 
 have been effential to its proper playing, whence 
 the name.] 
 5 " Fullams," &c.— See Gloffary. 
 14 "Well feene in Magicke and Aflrologie." The chara<5ler 
 of the gamefler, fwindler, and bully, of the reign of 
 James I. had features unknown to thofe of our age. 
 He was often a conjuror, an aftrologer, and an 
 alchemiil. The practice of legerdemain probably 
 fitted him for all the branches of his profeffion, 
 and, befides dealing in the fophiflicated wares of 
 predi6lion, philtres, and alchemy, thefe impoflors 
 
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 Notes. 
 
 I'AGE LINK 
 
 often mingled darker pradices with their myflical 
 frauds. The name of Dr. Forman, a celebrated 
 allrologer and magician, is deeply implicated in 
 the amours of Somerfet and Lady Effex, and 
 Villiers Duke of Buckingham was much cenfured 
 for his attachment to impoflors of this defcription. 
 Dr. Lamb, one of his dependent necromancers, 
 had his brains beat out by the mob in the llreets 
 of London in 1628; and Butler, another of the 
 fame defcription, is faid to have been miferably 
 murdered by the jefuits abroad, in one of their 
 religious houfes. See Wilfon's Hijlory of jfavies 
 VI. in Rennet's Colledlion, vol. ii. p. 490. — Sir 
 Walter Scott. — [Compare Shakfpere, Taming 
 of t/ie Shrew, i. 2 — 
 
 " It's a fchoolmafter well feen in mufic." 
 And Tuffer, ch. 95, fl. i — 
 
 "To haue yoiu- childe in Mufick fomething feene." 
 Compare the ufe of the 'Lzixn fpe^atics.'] 
 59 19 "His Booke of Charaders," /.<f., His Book of Magic 
 Figures and Charms. — See the chapter on 
 "Chara6ls" in Brand's Popular A^itiquities (ed. 
 EUis, iii. 319), flaowing that Gower ufes Carellxw 
 the fenfe of a charm : " With his Carc5l would him 
 enchaunt," Confeffio Amantis, Bk. i. In old 
 French Carafe, meant a mark, fign, alfo a written 
 charm, rendering the wearer of it invulnerable; alfo 
 a magic rite. — See Viede Seint Anban, ed. Atkin- 
 fon, 1. 1006, and note at p. 104. The following 
 paffage from Afhmole's Theatriun Chemiawt, p. 
 463, well illuflrates that writer's belief in charms, 
 in the year 1652: "What I have further to fay, 
 Ihall onely be to fliew what Naturall powers Sigills, 
 &c., graved or imprefl with proper CharaHers and 
 figures, and made under certaine peculiar conflel- 
 lations, may have. Albumazar, Zahel, Haly, 
 
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 Notes. 
 
 I'AGK LINK 
 
 Albategnus, and divers other Arabians, give us 
 feverall examples of fuch as have been cured of 
 the biting of ferpents, fcorpions, mad dogs, &c., 
 by TaHsmanicall Figures," &c. — See alfo Halli- 
 well's Di6lionary, f.v. Carafes. 
 60 12 "by chalke, and poafl," i.e., by the fcore chalked up 
 on the door-pofl. 
 
 63 9 " What meanes Singer then? 
 
 And Pope the Clowne, to fpeake fo Boorifli, when 
 They counterfaitc the Clownes vpon the Stage?" 
 Gabriel Singer is mentioned at the end of Epigram 
 2d [loth], and is quoted in the GuWs Iior?i-Book, 
 with Tarleton and Kempe, as a performer of the 
 clown's part. The pamphlet was publifhed in 
 1609, and it would feem that Singer was then dead. 
 — See Prolegomena to Shakefpeare, vol. iii. p. 243, 
 Variorum edit. 1803. Thomas Pope alfo a6led 
 the clown's part. He died in February, 1603-4, 
 and the induflry of Shakefpeare's editors has 
 recovered his will, which is curious. Pope a6ted 
 along with Shakefpeare. — Ibid. pp. 244 and 521. 
 [See Mr. Collier's Metnoirs of the Pmicipal AHors 
 ill the Plays of Shakefpeare, p. 120, Shakefpeare 
 Society, 1846.] — Sir Walter Scott. 
 63 9 " That Cloth will now compare with Veluet breech 
 Let him difcourfe, euen where, and when he dare, 
 Talke nere fo ynk hornre learnedly and rare, 
 Sweare Cloth breech is a peffant (by the Lord) 
 Threaten to drawe his wrath- venger, his fworde: 
 Tufli, Cloth-breech doth deride him with a laugh, 
 And lets him fee Bone-bafler; thats his fLaffe." 
 This is an epitome of Robert Green[e]'s pamphlet, 
 entitled A Quip for an upflart Courtier, or a 
 Difpute between Velvet and Cloth Breeches, which 
 may be found in Mr. Parke's new edition of the 
 Harleian Mifcellany, vol. v. p. 393. The original 
 c 
 
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 Notes. 
 
 PAGE LINE 
 
 tra6l was publifhed in 1592. See Mr. Hafle- 
 wood's curious lift of Green[e]'s produdlions in 
 the Cenfura Literaria, vol. viii, 380. — Sir Walter 
 Scott. 
 64 12 '' ftooleballe." This game is mentioned in the Tivo 
 Noble Kinfmen, v. 2, 73. — See Strutt, Sports and 
 Pajlimes^ p. 97. Strutt, p. 98, quotes from 
 D'Urfey's Don Quixote — 
 
 " Down in a vale on a fummer's day, 
 All the lads and laffes met to be merry; 
 A match for kiffes ^\. Jlool-ball to play, 
 And for cakes, and ale, and fider, and peri7. 
 Chorifs. Come all, great and fmall. 
 
 Short, tall, away io Jiool-ball." 
 
 20 " barly-breake." This game is thus defcribed by 
 Gifford, chiefly from a paffage in Sidney's 
 Arcadia: — " It was played by 6 people (3 of 
 each fex), who were coupled by lot. A piece 
 of ground was then chofen, and divided into 
 three compartments, of which the middle one 
 was called hell. It was the objedl of the couple 
 condemned to this divifion to catch the others, 
 who advanced from the two extremities; in which 
 cafe a change of fituation took place, and hell 
 was filled by the couple who were excluded by 
 preoccupation from the other places; in this 
 ' catching,' however, there was fome difficulty, as 
 by the rules of the game, the middle couple were 
 not to feparate before they had fucceeded, while 
 the others might break hands whenever they 
 found themfelves hard-preffed, when all had been 
 taken in turn, the laft couple were faid to be 
 in hell, and the game ended." On the Scottifli 
 way of playing it, fee Jamiefon, f.v. B aria- B reikis. 
 AUufions to it are common. — See Maffmger, Virgin 
 Martyr, v. i, and Parliament of Love, iv. 5; Ben 
 
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 66 
 
 3 
 
 69 
 
 6 
 
 70 
 
 13 
 
 71 
 
 14 
 
 Notes. 
 
 Jonfon, Sad Shepherd, i. 11, &c. See alfo a good 
 note on the word in Nares. 
 '' diminifli," for adminifler. 
 " in efleeming," in the eflimation of others, 
 "eates," read eares. 
 
 " deales croffe blowes,"&c., adls improperly behind her 
 hufband's back. 
 22 "ietting." — Compare Knave of Harts, p. 26, 1. 5, 
 " Along the iireetes, as he doth ietthig paffe." 
 See Gloffary. 
 72 10 "tall trencher man." This ufe of the word ^'a// in the 
 fenfe of great, notable, is common in early plays, 
 and is even not yet quite obfolete, efpecially in 
 America. 
 
 13 He walks with his coat unbuttoned to fhow off his 
 
 fhirt, when he has one. 
 
 14 " He takes a common courfe to goe vntrufl, 
 
 Except his Shirt's a-wafliing; then he mufl 
 
 Goe woollward for the time " 
 
 Our anceflors' drefs confilled of three principal 
 parts, cloak, doublet, and hofe. The former was 
 often laid afide, when the gallant was faid to be in 
 cuerpo. The hofe, like the prefent pantaloons, 
 comprehended breeches and flockings in one 
 piece. They were fixed to the doublet by a vafl 
 number of firings called points, by tying or un- 
 loofing of which the perfon was /?'//^^or 7/;^/r//^rt'. 
 A flovenly carelefs ruffian, like him defcribed in 
 the fatire, went about without being truffed, unlefs 
 when his only fhirt was a-wafhing, when the hiatus 
 between the hofe and doublet would have expofed 
 the deficiency of linen. Then, like Don Armado, 
 he went wool-ward for penance. — Sir Walter 
 Scott. 
 
 15 "woollward." Thisword is thus explained by Palfgrave, 
 
 '' Wohvarde, without any lynnen nexte one's body. 
 
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 Sans C/icmj'/e." It is difcuffed and explained by 
 Nares, who fays : " Dreffed in wool only, without 
 linen, often enjoined in times of fuperflition, by 
 way of penance." — See Zoves Labour's Lojl, v. 2, 
 717; and five other examples which Nares cites. 
 _ To thefe we may add Hampole, Pricke of Con- 
 
 fcience, ed. Morris, 1. 3512, and Pierce the Plough- 
 mans Crcde, ed. Skeat, 1. 788. The word was 
 alfo difcuffed in Notes and Queries, 4th Ser., i. 65, 
 181, 254, 351, and 425. 
 72 15 "hee fcornes it hee," compare the ufe of the 
 repeated I in fuch fentences as, "I know it, I." 
 —See Gloffary f.v. I. 
 75 II " Heele looke vnto your water well enough, 
 
 And hath an eye that no man leaues a fnutfe. 
 A pox of peecemeale drinking (WiUiam fayes) 
 Play it away, weele haue no floppes and Hayes." 
 A fnuff is, in the language of modern compotators, 
 called a heel-top. The paffage affords an inter- 
 pretation to one in Shakefpeare more clearly than 
 the commentators have affigned to it. Among 
 the cant phrafes acquired by Hal in the cellar of 
 the Boar's Head tavern at Eafl Cheap, he tells us, 
 " When you breathe in your watering they cry hem ! 
 
 and bid you play it off" which is precifely the 
 
 encouragement given by the hero of the fatire to the 
 faint-hearted pot companion who ftops for breath 
 in the midfl of his draught. — Sir Walter Scott. 
 78 21 " The firfl of them in many a Tauerne tride, 
 At laft fubdued by Aquauit^e dide. 
 His fecond Worthies date was brought to fine, 
 Feafling with Oyllers and braue Rennifli wine. 
 The third, whom diuers Dutchmen held full deere. 
 Was flabb'd by pickeld Hearinges & flrong Beere." 
 The author had probably in his recolleclion the 
 miferable fate of Robert Green [e], who died of a 
 
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 furfeit in 1592, after a debauch upon pickled her- 
 rings and Rhenifli wine. — Sir Walter Scott. 
 
 81 2 "Troynouant," ?>., London, the city of the Trinohantes. 
 
 — See Spenfcr, Faery Qiiccne, II., x. 46. There is 
 of courfe no ground for the old derivation from 
 Tf-oia nova, which is due to Alexander Neckham, 
 who in his book Dc Landibus Divhicc Sapientice 
 (Rolls' Series, ed. Wright), p. 458, fpcaks of Lon- 
 don as Trinovantum and Troja Nova, adding in a 
 note, "Troja nova Londinum feu Londonia 
 dicitur." The legend was that it was named New 
 Troy by its founder, Brutus, who called it thus after 
 the city of his anceftors. 
 
 83 2 " The days are paft when ' Brother ' Avas the ufual 
 form of addrefs ; now 'Coufm' is the word." 
 There is, of courfe, here a play on the word 
 " cofen," in its fecondary meaning of " to cheat, 
 fwindle." 
 
 III.— TIS MERRIE WHEN GOSSIPS MEETE, 1602. 
 
 3 17 See note to Lettmg of Humours Blood, &c., p. 7, 1. 6. 
 
 5 15 " Conny-catching." Publiflied in three parts, 1 591-2. 
 Greene alfo wrote "A Difputation betweene a 
 Hee Connycatcher and a Shee Connycatcher, 
 whether a Theafe or a Whore is mofl hurtfull in 
 Coufenage to the Common-wealth," 1592. — See 
 Hazlitt's Handbook, p. 241, 
 17 " Pafquill." " The FirR parte of Pafquil's Apologie," 
 printed in 1590: Hazlitt, Colle^mis and Notes, 
 p. 302. — ^et Bibliographical Index,]). 14. Pafquil 
 was originally the name of a pillar at Rome, on 
 which libels and defamatory verfes ufed to be 
 pofled. 
 
 8 7 " i'fl," read if't. 
 
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 9 14 •' Ti's," read 'Tis; fo, again, p. 17, 1. 7, and p. 21,1. 14. 
 
 10 12 " croffe-confumers," i.e., waflers or confumers of 
 
 money. — See Gloflary, f.v. Crolfe. 
 
 11 5 " much good de'e," much good may it do you. 
 
 15 I "Good dea'ne." — Cf. "God-gi go^-Atxv^' Roifieo and 
 Juliet, i. 2, 59. 
 2 " Dagger Pye," probably a pie at the celebrated 
 ordinary in Holborn, known as the Dagger. 
 Dagger-ale is frequently ufed in this fenfe in the 
 early plays. 
 
 1 1 Some unforefeen caufe of delay may have arifen. 
 
 18 I " skinker."— See Gloffary, and ift Henry TV., Aa ii., 
 fc. 4. 
 
 23 16 See Mr. Furnivall's remarks on this line in Notes and 
 
 Queries, 5th Ser., v. 178. 
 
 24 3 " Taurus fo rules," &c. A cuckold was commonly faid 
 
 to have horns growing from his forehead (allufions 
 to this are very frequent in our Author, and writers 
 of the period), and are thus faid to be under the 
 influence of Taurus, the Bull. 
 18 '•' t'is," read 'tis. 
 
 25 4 ''h'as," read has. 
 
 12 "Connie," fo. Tuffer, Five Hundred Points, ch. 15, 
 
 H. 20— 
 
 ' ' Drive hive, good Conic. " 
 
 13 "fa'y," read fay. 
 
 26 8 " hunered," read hundred. 
 
 1 3 Compare the following from the Ballad of " The Weft- 
 Country Counfellor," printed in the Bagford 
 Ballads (Ballad Society, ed. Ebfworth), iii. 495 — 
 
 " Nay I further declare, you may know by their Hair, 
 If it be Red or Yellow, then then you may fwear 
 They will never prove true, but will love more than you; 
 And the fandy Complexions are Flatterers too : 
 Have a care of fuch men, for there's fcarce One in Ten 
 But are Falfe and Deceitful; Be careful, O then. 
 
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 Notes. 
 
 Of a two-colour'd Beard, you had need be afraid; [?afcard] 
 Now if by fuch a one you by chance are enfnar'd, 
 You'll have Sorrow and Woe, they'll be lealous I know, 
 And will watch, peep, and haunt you where-ever you go: 
 Have a care of fuch men, &c. 
 
 But the Black and the Brown, both in City and Town, 
 Are delightful and pleafant, they feldom can frown ; 
 By the Powers above, they are all over Love, 
 And as Loyal they are as the dear tender Dove : 
 Laffes thefe are the men that will honour you then. 
 There's not one of them falfe in full Fourfcore and Ten." 
 
 [Date probably about 1684-5.] 
 
 27 7 '-Abourne." — See Gloffary. Compare Two Noble 
 Kinffuen, iv. 2, 125 — 
 
 " He's white-haired. 
 Not wanton white, but fuch a manly colour 
 Next to au aborne. " 
 
 29 4 This proverb occurs in Gafcoigne's Fofies, 1575, and in 
 Tuffer, ch. 85, ft. 16, we have: "Enough is a 
 plentie," on which fee my note. 
 
 31 15 '-'that did the Angell bow," &c., i.e., who bent an 
 Angel ( a gold coin of the value of 6s. 8d.) and 
 fent it as a love-token. The belief in good-luck 
 arifmg from the poffeffion of a crooked coin ftill 
 furvives in fome parts. 
 
 36 5 "ake." Baret, in his Alvearie, 1580, points out the 
   proper diftin6lion in the fpelling of this word, 
 
 according as it is ufed as a verb or noun. 
 " Ake is the verb of this fubftantive Ache, ch 
 being turned into k." 
 
 37 10 '' Marry and gip." This curious expreffion is derived 
 
 from St. Mary ^'Egyptiaca. Skelton ufes her 
 name to fwear by in his Garlande of Lmirell, 
 
 1455— 
 
 " By Mary Gipcy 
 Quod fcripfi, fcripfi." 
 
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 PAGE I.INE 
 
 On which Dyce remarks that this was fliortened 
 in later writers to marry gip, marry gep, marry 
 guep, or marry gup. Nares, f.v. Marry quotes 
 Marry gip in Ben Jonfon, (Bartliolomeiv Fair, 
 Act i.) and Marry Guep in Hudibras, i. 3, 202. 
 Hence came Marry go up, and Marry cofue up. 
 Cotgrave has '■^ Magna gna: Marry gip, fir; true 
 Roger." — See P. Ploiumati, ed. Skeat, c. xviii. 23. 
 
 39 14 A fyllable is wanting in this line: read, "to drinke 
 
 viore Sacke withall;" or, "to drinke the Sacke 
 withall." 
 
 15 "remaine my detter," by not returning the pledge. 
 
 40 15 " mend your draft," i.e., drink more. 
 
 43 12 "which falles out more," i.e., which turns out to be 
 
 more. 
 
 1 6 "and you were," i.e., though you were. 
 
 44 I " heer's neither Ciffe nor Kate," i.e., we are not to be 
 
 addrefled or treated as common women. 
 
 IV.— GREENES GHOST, &c., 1602. 
 
 7 3 See note to Tis Merrie, &c., p. 5, 1. 15. 
 
 8 26 The ufiial puniflmient of perjurers and falfe witneffes. 
 
 — See alfo Looke to it, for lie Jlahbe ye, p. 22, I. 6. 
 
 9 19 Compare the following from Wyclif: " Alfo Somenors, 
 
 baiUes and Seriauntes, and othere men of lawe, 
 
 kitten {cut) pereloully mennus purfes; for thei 
 
 fomenen and areflen men wrongfully to gete the 
 
 money out of his purfe and fumtyme fuffren hem 
 
 to meynteyne hem in wrongis for money, to robbe 
 
 othere men bi falfe mefures and weightis." — 
 
 Works, ed. Arnold, iii. 320. 
 
 32 " hamme and hauke," hem and haw. 
 
 12 2 "betake yourfelfe to prouant," &c., i.e., to enlifl. A 
 
 provant-mafler was a perfon who provided apparel 
 
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 for foldicrs. In Webflcr's Works, ii. 152, we liave 
 alio provant-apparel, foldiers' uniforms. 
 
 12 7,Ty " fwallow the Gudgin," i.e., fwallow the bait, be de- 
 
 ceived. 
 
 13 16 Old St. Paul's was in former times a favourite refort for 
 
 purpofes of bufmefs, amufement, lounging or affig- 
 nations, bills were fixed up there, fervants hired, 
 and a variety of matters performed wholly incon- 
 fiftent with the facred nature of the edifice. The 
 parcis or portico of St. Paul's was the place where 
 London Lawyers met for confutation with their 
 clients. Thus Chaucer dcfcribes his Sergeant-at- 
 Law as one " that often hadde ben atte parvys." 
 — Ca7iterbury Talcs, Prologue, 1. 310. See 
 further in Sir Walter Scott's Note to T/ic Letting 
 of Humom's Blood, &c., p. 46, 1. i. 
 
 14 6 - fi.atute Merchant." — See Gloffary. 
 
 12 "at one clap," fo Tuffer — 
 
 " Twentie lode buflaes cut downe at a clap. 
 Such heede may be taken, fliall flop but a gap." 
 
 Five Hundred Points, ed. Heritage, p. 21, ft. 22. 
 
 15 17 See a fimilar tale in A paire of Spy-knaves, p. 20. 
 
 17 I " fliadowed him," &c., followed him like a fliadow, and 
 fpoilt his game. Compare the ufe of the Latin 
 umbra, for a conflant follower, one always at your 
 heels. 
 28 " Stourbridge or Sturbich, the name of a common field 
 extending between Cheflerton and Cambridge, 
 near the little brook Store, for about half a mile 
 fquare, is noted for its fair, which is kept annually 
 on September 19th, and continues a fortnight. It 
 is furpaffed by few fairs in Great Britain, or even 
 in Europe, for traffic, though of late it is mucli 
 leffened. The booths are placed in rows like 
 flreets, by the name[s] of which they are called, as 
 Cheapfide, etc., and are filled with all forts of 
 D 
 
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 trades. The Duddery, an area of 80 or 100 yards 
 fquare, refembles Blackwell Hall. Large com- 
 miffions are negotiated here for all parts of 
 England in cheefe, woollen goods, wool, leather, 
 hops, upholflerers' and ironmongers' ware, etc., etc. 
 Sometimes 50 hackney coaches from London, 
 ply morning and night, to and from Cambridge, as 
 well as all the towns around, and the very barns 
 and flables are turned into inns for the accommo- 
 dation of the poorer people. After the wholefale 
 bufmefs is over, the country gentry flock in, laying 
 out their money in flage-plays, taverns, mufic- 
 houfes, toys, puppet-fliows, etc., and the whole 
 concludes v/ith a day for the fale of horfes. This 
 fair is under the jurifdidion of the Univerfity of 
 Cambridge." — Walker's Gazetteer^ ed. 1801. See 
 alfo index to Brand's Ajitiquities. "Sturbridge fair 
 was formerly proclaimed by both the Corporation 
 and the Univerfity authorities. Originally lafting 
 fix weeks, in 1785 it lafled only three weeks, and 
 now it lafls but one week. A very amufmg account 
 of its proclamation by the Vice-Chancellor will be 
 found in Gunning's Reminifcences of Cambridge. " — 
 S. N. in Notes and Queries, Aug. 25, 1877. 
 
 " When til' fair is done, I to the Colledg come, 
 Or elfe I drinke with them at Trompington, 
 Craving their more acquaintance with my heart, 
 Till our next Sturbridg Fair; and fo wee part. " 
 
 Brathwaite's Honcjl Ghoji, 1658, p. 189. 
 
 See Mr. Furnivall's edition of Harman, p. 100. 
 3,0 29 This form of fwindle is Hill commonly pra6lifed in 
 
 London, a ring or pin being ufually fubflituted for 
 
 the gilt fpoon. 
 23 lafl. " London Lyckpenny " is the title of one of Lydgate's 
 
 poems, in which he inveighs againfl the greed for 
 
 money and fwindling in London. It has been 
 
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 Notes. 
 
 reprinted in Specimens of EngliJJi Literature, ed. 
 Skeat, p. 33. 
 •' Italian bone-ache." — Cf. Troilus and Creffida, ii. 13. 
 Harrifon, in his Defcripiio?t of England, ed. Furnivall, 
 i. 160, ufes the term " Aleknights " for tipplers, 
 conflant frequenters of taverns ; and Baret, in his 
 Aiveane, 1 580, gives : " A common haunter of ale- 
 houfes, orvittayling houfes; an aleknight, atipler, 
 a tofpot, a quaffer, a noifepicker, a blowbottell. 
 Ebriofus, bibuhis, bibax^^ &c. 
 
 26 lafl. " That Ihould be lodged,"' i.e., that was fuppofed or 
 expedled to lodge there. 
 
 28 For a full defcription of thefe " Hookers " or Anglers, 
 
 fee Harman, ed. Furnivall, pp. 35-6. 
 14 "crome," /.(?., flick with bent handle. This word is 
 flill in common ufe in Suffolk. 
 
 32 22 " wilie beguily." This is a proverbial faying of great 
 antiquity. We firft find it under the form " fallite 
 fallentes," in Ovid, De Arte Amatoria, i. 645. 
 Dionyfius Cato in his Difiiches, i. 26, has — 
 
 " Qui {Imulat uerbis, nee corde eft fidus amicus, 
 Tu quoque fac fimile; fic ais deluditur arte." 
 
 Gower, in his Cofifefflo Amantis, comes more 
 clofely to the prefent form. He fays — 
 
 " Often he that wol begile, 
 Is guiled with the fame guile, 
 And thus the guiler is beguiled. " 
 
 Bk. vi., ed. Chalmers, p. 194, col. 2. Cliaucer 
 fays: " Begiled is the giler thanne," Romannt of 
 the Rofe, 5762; and " A gilour flial himfelf begiled 
 be," Reeve's Tale, 4321. -'To play wily 
 beguile" occurs in Bradlay's Works, i. 375, and 
 ii. 49, 34c (Parker Society). There is an old 
 play entitled " Wily Beguiled." — Compare Pfalms 
 vii. 16, and ix. 15. 
 
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 33 5 " fane the odde three pence," prefumably the waiter's 
 
 fee. 
 
 34 8 " De pro/uudi's" the beginning of Pfahii 130, ufed in 
 
 the Roman CathoUc burial service. 
 39 17 "the Sheppards Calender." — See the Globe edition 
 of Spenfer, p. 474. Hazlitt gives feveral proverbs 
 finiilar to this, fuch as, " Like priefl, like people: 
 Like mafler, like man," &c. Tuffer, p. 103, has — 
 
 " Such Miftris, fuch Nan, 
 Such Maifler, fuch man." 
 
 The French form is, " Tel maitre, tel valet." 
 laft. This proverb of the Pitcher going long to the water, 
 but being broken at lafl, is in Dan Michel's 
 Ayenbite of Imvyf, a.d. 1340: "Zuo longe geth 
 thet pot to the wetere, thet hit comth to-broke 
 hom," p. 165, 1. 7 from foot, ed. Stevenfon, for 
 Roxburghe Club. 
 
 Spenfer's Shepheards Calender for Maye, 1. 39. 
 
 Ibid, for September, 1. 36. 
 
 Ibid, 1. 82. 
 
 " Pitch-barrels," alluding to the proverb, " You can't 
 touch pitch without being defiled." 
 6 Read " Felix quern faciunt aliena pericula cautum," 
 Le., happy he who learns caution from the ex- 
 perience of others. A fmiilar proverb occurs in 
 Dionyfms Cato, DiJIiches, iii. 14 — 
 
 " Multorum difce exemplo, qua; facfla fequaris, 
 Quoe fugias: uita efl nobis aliena magiflra." 
 
 Compare 
 
 " For Caton feith, thes gode techere, 
 Other monis lif is owre fchewere." 
 
 King Alexandre, ed. Weber, 1. 17. 
 
 See alfo Barbour's Bnice, ed. Skeat, p. 612; 
 and Tuffer, ed. Herrtage, p. 23, ft. 36. 
 10 The Shepheards Calender, SQ^itm\itx,\. 131. 
 
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 43 21 The Shepheards Calender {ox Februarie, 1. ii. 
 27 Ibid., Maye, 1. 165. 
 
 44 17 "dudgeon haft." Gcrarde, in his Herball,^^. 1597, p. 
 
 1225, fpeaking of the root of the box tree, fays: 
 " Turners and cutlers, if I miflake not the matter, 
 do call this woode dudgeon, whence they make 
 dudgeon-hafied daggers'' In Arnold's Chronicle, 
 p. 245, ed. 181 1, is quoted the Will of John 
 Amcll, dated 1473, i" which he bequeaths "al 
 my fluf beying in my flioppe, that is to faye, 
 yuery, dogeon, horn, mapyll, and the toel y^ be- 
 longeth to my crafte, as faues, anfeldis, hameres, 
 ra[s]pis, fills, and other to werke wythal." Cotgrave 
 gives, " Dagtie a roelles: a Scottifh dagger, or 
 dudgeon haft dagger." — Compare Macbeth, ii. 
 I, 46. 
 
 v.— LOOKE TO IT, &c., 1604 
 
 3 4 Next to the wall was the place of refpe6l in walking. 
 
 — See Romeo and Juliet, i. i. 
 97'' Curious," i.e., bufy bodies, particular. The Catholicon 
 Anglicuni gives " Curius, operofus.''' 
 
 10 4 ''Pierce Penileffe his fupplication to the Divell, de- 
 fcribing the overfpreading of Vice, and the fup- 
 preffion of Vertue. Pleafantly interlaced with 
 variable delights, and pathetically intermixt with 
 conceipted reproofs," London, 1592. This was 
 the title of a book written by Thomas Nafh, in 
 which he laments over his broken fortunes. 
 
 15 7 Cotgrave gives " Charlatan, a mountebanke, a cou- 
 
 fening drug-feller, a pratling quackfalver." 
 ro According to the Aflrologers, everything had its proper 
 and befl feafon according to the figns of the Zodiac. 
 Rowlands here, of courfe, puflies the theory to 
 extremes. — See Knave of Clubbes, p. 18.
 
 Notes. 
 
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 17 3 So in Lodge's Wi'^s Miferie, p. 4, " He telleth them of 
 wonders done in Spaine by his anceftors : where 
 if the matter were well examined, his father was 
 but Swabhcr in the fhip where Ciuill oranges was 
 the befl merchandize;" and in Tom of all Trades 
 (New Shakfpere Society, ed. Furnivall), p. 166, 
 ■' He may rife from a Squabler to a Mafler." — See 
 alfo Tempejl, ii. 2, 44. 
 12 '-Ancients," the flags or enfigns of regiments or fhips. 
 — See Percy's Reliqim, pp. 73, 144. 
 
 19 3 " obdurate," the accent being on the penultimate, as in 
 Shakfpere. So, again, in Gziy of IVartvUk, p. 16, 
 1. 2 from bottom. 
 
 21 9 See note to Letting of Htwwurs Blood, p. 38, 1. 5. 
 
 22 6 See note to Greenes Ghofl, p. 8, 1. 26. 
 1 2 " Knight of the Poll."— See Gloffary. 
 
 24 6 Read "deere pen-worths." 
 
 1 1 '■ carefull nights," anxious, fleeplefs nights. Compare 
 
 Sir Ferumhras (Early Englifh Text Society), ed. 
 Herrtage, 1. 1115: "God kepe the prifouns 
 [prifoners] out of forwe, for earful they were that 
 day." — See alfo P. Plowman, ed. Skeat, c. xiii. 103. 
 
 26 12 "To Gentleman your fonnes," i.e., to make gentlemen 
 
 of your fons. 
 
 27 2 " befhagg'd," fo Maebeth, iv. 2, 82— 
 
 " Thou Heft, thou_/7i!fl^--5flz>^(/ villain." 
 
 See alfo 2 Henry VI., iii. i, 367. 
 
 1 2 A hangman's fee was thirteen pence halfpenny and the 
 
 clothes of the convi6l. '' There was a curfl page 
 that his mafler whipt naked, and when he had 
 been whipt, would not put on his cloaths, and 
 when his mailer bad him, ' take them you, for they 
 are the hangman's fees.'" — Bacon's Apophthegms, 
 No. 69. See alfo Tom Tell-Troth, ed. Furnivall, 
 p. 36, 1. II. 
 
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 28 2 There is a play here on the word " Fafliions," which, 
 
 befides the ufual meaning, alfo fignifies \\\q. farcy 
 in horfes. 
 
 29 9 See note to p. 3, 1. 4. 
 
 30 5 Sinon was a Greek, and nephew of Ulyffes, who, having 
 
 pretended to defert to the Trojans, induced them 
 to admit the wooden liorfe within the city, by 
 means of which Troy was taken and dedroyed. 
 
 31 5 "Table," />., Table-book or memorandum tablets. 
 
 — Compare Hamlet, i. 5, 107, and 2 Henry IV., 
 iv. I, 201. 
 
 32 6 See I Samuel xxv. 3. 
 
 34 6 Compare the defcription given by the fourth goffip of 
 
 his wife. — A whole Crew, &c., p. 29. 
 
 35 3 " blood and woundes," i.e., with curfes and oaths, fuch 
 
 as zounds (by God's wounds), 'sblood (by God's 
 blood), &c. — See note X.o A Pair e of Spy Knaves, 
 p. 15, 1. 22. 
 4 Read "And, come in, whores," &c., i.e., and with 
 invitations to whores, &c., to enter the alehoufe. 
 12 There were two Compters or Prifons for debtors in 
 London, each being under the fuperintendence 
 of one of the Sheriffs. The Poultry Compter 
 flood a few doors from St. Mildred's Church until 
 18x7, when it was taken down. Stow wrote of 
 it, "This hath been there kept and continued 
 time out of mind, for I have not read of the 
 original thereof." Wood Street Compter flood on 
 the eafl fide of the llreet of that name in Cheap- 
 fide, and was firfl eflablifhed there in 1555, when 
 the prifoners were removed there from the old 
 Compter in Bread Street. It was burnt in the 
 great fire, but rebuilt. T. Middleton introduces 
 a reference to the two Compters in his Phoenix: 
 " As in that notable city called London fland two 
 moil famous Univerfities, Poultry and Wood Street, 
 
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 where fome are of twenty years' Handing, and 
 have took all their degrees." — Works, ed. Dyce, 
 i. 392. Thomas Nafh praifes in a fimilar drain 
 the Compters in his Strange Neivs, 1592, and in 
 Tom Tel-Troth (p. 129) we read — 
 
 " If with their debtors tliey doe chaunce to meete, 
 Tliey pen them vp within the Poultries coope ; 
 And if for gold lent, men would counters pay, 
 In Woodejlreets Counter there them fall they lay." 
 
 36 2 " Fac'd like the North-windes-pidlure in a Map," that 
 is, with fat, diflended cheeks, fuch as Boreas was 
 reprefented with on maps, to fignify his blowing, 
 blullering blafls of wind. 
 
 "Wolner," fee More Knaves Yet, p. 35. 
 
 "ceaze," i.e., feize. 
 
 '•w'on tmne more,'*' read won( = one.) 
 
 Have the bill chalked up againfl you on the poll. 
 
 That is, fpend all your wealth in drink and excefs. 
 
 "Oppreffms," read Oppreffion's. 
 
 "for (lirring handes or feete," i.e., fo as to prevent 
 your moving hand or foot. — See note to A Terrible 
 Battell, &c., p. 24, 1. 10. 
 
 Luke xii. 19. 
 
 So. Horace, Epijl. i. i, 65 — 
 
 ' ' Rem facias, rem, 
 Si poffis, recle; fi non quocunque mode, rem." 
 
 45 5 Compare i Peter ii. 16. 
 
 46 8 "myferable," /.(^., niggardly, miferly. 
 17 " dlind," read blind. 
 
 47 6 Pfalm xxxix. 5. 
 
 VI.— HELL'S BROKE LOOSE, 1605. 
 
 3 17 See A6ts v. 36, 37. 
 
 4 10 A6ls xiii. 7-12. 
 
 
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 4 21 Manes was a Perfian, who tried to combine the Oriental 
 
 philofophy with Chriflianit)-, and maintained that 
 there arc two fupreme principles ; the one. Light, 
 the fource of all good; the other, Darktiefs, the 
 fource of all evil. 
 
 5 8 Montanus, a Phrygian Bifliop of the fecond century, 
 
 claimed to be infi)ired by the Holy Spirit. 
 7 6 See note to A Fooles Bolt, &c., p. t6, 1. ii. 
 9 3 According to Stowe, Survey, ed. Thoms, p. 8i, Jack 
 Straw was not killed by Walworth, but duly tried 
 and executed. The weapon which was, according 
 to the tradition, ufed by Walworth on the occafion 
 is flill preferved by the Fiflimongers' Company, 
 of which he was a member, and to which he pre- 
 fented it. 
 5 '•' Prulogue," read Prologue. 
 8 Holhnflied's Chronicles, publiflied in 1587. 
 II T Compare the opening of Euripides' Hecuba. 
 
 2 " forth the lake of Hell," i.e., proceeding from. — See 
 Gloffary. 
 
 13 2 " Cinthia." — See note to Betrayi7ig of Chrijl, p. 5, 1. 8. 
 10 " Dice of poore mens bones to make.'' The fame 
 
 expreffion occurs in Stubbes' A?tatomie of Abnfes, 
 New Shakfperc Society, ed. Furnivall, p. 127: 
 " I will make dice of his bones." 
 12 "I am not Cccfar, him," this ufe of the perfonal pro- 
 noun is not uncommon, and is equivalent to " that 
 Csefar " (ille Ccefar). Compare the limilar ufe 
 of the firfl perfonal pronoun. — See Gloffary, f.v. I. 
 
 14 15 So in the Romance of Sir Perceval {Cdimd.QX\ Society, 
 
 ed. Halliwell), 1. 1640, "the childe was oi pith." 
 
 15 2 That is, the text ufed by Parfon Ball, that traitor in 
 
 England. The arrangement is peculiar, but not 
 uncommon. — Compare Chaucer, Squire's Tale, 
 209, " the Grekes horfe Sinon," i.e., the horfe of 
 Sinon the Greek; again, Boke of the Ducheffe, 282, 
 E 
 
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 Notes. 
 
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 "the Kinges metinge Pharao," i.e., the dream of 
 King Pharaoh; Sir Ferumbras, ed. Herrtage, 
 1. 1270, "we buth CharHs men the Emperere," 
 i.c.^ the men of Charles the Emperour; and 
 P. Plow7tia?i, c. xvi. 131, "Piers loue the plouh- 
 man," i.e.., the love of Piers the Plowman. See 
 Mr. Skeat's note on this lafl line. 
 
 15 5 The original of this proverbial expreffion feems to be 
 
 the following Latin couplet of the fourteenth 
 
 century — 
 
 ' ' Cnm vanga quadam tellurem foderit Adam, 
 Et Eva nens fuerat, quis generofus erat?" 
 
 MS. Hail., 3362, leafy. 
 
 In MS. Sloane, 2593, printed in Wright's Songs 
 
 and Carols (Percy Society, 1856), we find a flightly 
 
 altered form — 
 
 "NoAv betliing (bethink) the, gentilman, 
 How Adam dalf and Eve fpan." 
 
 See alfo Hazlitt's Proverbs, &c., p. 455. 
 
 16 II " franckly," /.^., freely, gratis. 
 
 19 3 "out of fubiedl yeeres," i.e., out of years of fubmiflion, 
 
 pafl the time of fubmiffion. 
 
 20 14 That is, lives on trufl or credit, owing always his fhare 
 
 of the cofl. — See Gloffary, Beholding cind Scot, and 
 note to Knave of Clubbes, p. 24, 1. 17. 
 23 5 " vnflayed mindes," unfleady,^unfettled minds. — Com- 
 pare Ifaiah xxvi. 3. 
 " Harmon," read Harman, as in line 2. 
 " defper'at," read defp'rate. 
 '• Put downe with State," i.e., furpafs in flate and 
 
 magnificence. 
 " fland on tearmes," argue, bandy words, wafle time in 
 quibbles. — See The Betrayi?ig of C/iriJl, p. 41, 1. 1 1. 
 44 8 And rufh upon thofe rafcals [who] keep us in. — See 
 note to The Betraying of Chrifi, p. 19, 1. 18. 
 
 46 17 "Anotaraies," read Anatomies. 
 
 47 5 Read " Are e'en reflored," &:c. 
 
 34 
 
 26 
 
 5 
 
 27 
 
 7 
 
 34 
 
 2 
 
 38 
 
 18
 
 Notes. 
 
 VII.-A THEATRE OF DELIGHTFUL RECREATION, 
 
 1605. 
 
 Not now known to exifl. — See Bibliographical Index, p. ig. 
 
 VIII.— A TERRIBLE BATTELL, &c. [1606?] 
 
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 2 8 "to fcratch acquaintance," we now fay, to f crape an 
 acquaintance. 
 
 6 T I In the Apocryphal Gofpcl of Nicodemus, the name of 
 
 the penitent thief is given as Difmas or Dimas, 
 and that of the other thief Gcjlas. — See Cowper's 
 Apocryphal Go/pels, pp. 246, 346, 426. Other 
 names for them are Titus and Dumachus. 
 The meaning of thefe two Hnes is, " God gave grace to 
 one fmner to repent when on the verge of death, 
 fo that none fliould defpair of obtaining mercy 
 even at the lafl; but to only one, left any fhould, 
 by over-confidence, and prefuming on the mercy 
 of God, leave repentance till too late." 
 
 7 5 '-good-cheap," /.<?., in plenty, extremely cheap. "In 
 
 Douce's Colle6lion is a fragment of an early book 
 printed by Caxton, who promifes to fell it ' good 
 chepe.'" — Halliwell. '■'■Bon marche, good cheap, 
 dog cheap, a low rate, a reafonable price." — Cot- 
 grave. See alfo More Knaves yet, &c., p. 12, 1. 20. 
 
 8 I " tother," for the other. It occurs feveral times in 
 
 Tuffer, who ufes " ton . . . tother," for " the 
 
 one . . . the other." 
 18 "your day is broke." — See Gloffary. Compare p. 13, 
 
 1. 6. 
 13 15 Compare Letting of Humours Blood, &c., p. 19, 1. i. 
 19 14 Compare Milton's Paradife Lofi, x. 235-6. 
 
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 21 13 Phyficians were accuflomed to make their diagnofis of 
 
 a difeafe by an infpection of the patient's urine. — 
 See Gejla Romanorum, pp. 67, 191, &c. 
 
 22 13 This is an apparent reference to the plague which 
 
 raged in London, 1602-3. 
 
 23 4 Pfahns cii. iijciii. 15; Ifaiah xl. 6; James i. 10, 
 
 24 9 Wormwood was commonly ufed as a preventative againft 
 
 the plague. For a full account of its virtues, fee 
 Lyte's Dodoens, pp. 6-7. 
 
 10 "for comming," for fear of, or to prevent its coming. 
 
 This is a very common ufe of the word in Tuffer ; 
 
 thus he tells us, ch. 9, fl. 18 — 
 
 " To hate reuengement liodilie 
 For loo^mg loue and aimitie," 
 
 i.e., for fear of lofmg love, &c. So in F. Ploivman, 
 bk. vi. 62, we have "y^rcolde," i.e., as a prote6lion 
 againft cold, and in Chaucer, Rime of Sir Thopas, 
 '■^for perdnge of his herte," Canterbury Tales., 
 B. 2052. Compare Lookc to It, &c., p. 44, 1. 5. 
 
 1 1 Lyte, in his edition of Dodoens, p. 297, fays, " The late 
 
 writers fay, that the rootes oi Angelica are contrarie 
 to all poyfon, the Peflilence, and all naughtie cor- 
 ruption of euill or infe6led ayre. If any body be 
 infected with the Peflilence or Plague, or els is 
 poyfoned, they giue him flraightwayes a Dram of 
 the powder of this roote with wine in the winter, 
 and in fommer with the dillilled water of Scabiofa, 
 Cardinis, Benediilns or Rofewater, then they bring 
 him to bedde, and couer him w^ell untill he haue 
 fwet well. The fame roote being taken fafting in 
 the morning, or but only kept or holden in the 
 mouth, dothe keepe and preferue the body from 
 the infedlion of the Peflilence, and from all euill 
 ayre and poyfon." 
 
 12 . " Hearbe-grace," i.e. Rue. Shakfpere, Hamlet, iv. 5, 
 
 181: "There's rue for you; and here's fome for
 
 Notes. 
 
 PAGI£ LINE 
 
 me : we may call it herb-grace o' Sundays.'' And 
 Winter's Tale, iv. 4, 74 — 
 
 " For you there's rofemary and rue ; tliefe keep 
 Seeming and favour all the winter long: 
 Grace and remembrance be to you both." 
 
 Some fuppofe it to have been called "herb of 
 grace " on account of the many excellent properties 
 it was held to poffefs, being a fpecific againfl 
 poifon, the bites of venomous creatures, etc. ; but 
 probably it was fo called becaufe " rue " means 
 "repent." Cf. alfo Richard II., iii. 4, 105 — 
 " Here in this place 
 I'll fet a bank of me, four herb of grace." 
 
 See alfo I^yte's Dodoens, p. 261. 
 
 24 15 The Bezoar flone was a calculous concretion found in 
 
 the flomach of certain ruminant animals, formerly 
 regarded as an unfailing antidote to poifon, and 
 a certaine remedy for eruptive, pellilential, or 
 putrid difeafes. Cotgrave gives; ^'- Bezoard, m. 
 a beazar-ftone (breeds in the maw of the goat 
 called a Beazar)." 
 
 25 13 Samfon. Afah is Gaza. — See Judges xvi. 3. 
 
 26 I Abfolom. Compare with thefe lines the verfes of 
 
 St. Bernard, tranflated by Tuffer, and printed in 
 
 the Englifli Diale6l Society's edition, p. 203 — 
 
 "Die ubi Salomon, olim tarn nobilis? 
 Vel ubi Samfon eft, dux invincibilis? 
 Vel dulcis Jonathas, multum amabilis? 
 Vel pulcher Abfolon, vultu mirabilis?" 
 
 thus rendered by Tuffer — 
 
 "Tell where is Salomon, that once 'io noble was? 
 Or where now Sam/on is, in flrength Avhome none could pafs? 
 Or worthie lonathas, that prince fo louely bold? 
 Or faier Abfolon, fo goodlie to behold? " 
 
 St. Bernard's verfes appear to have been very 
 popular, as we have feveral tranflations of them 
 made at the end of the fixteenth century.
 
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 27 16 Com^sxe. Vefius and Adonis, 149: " Love is a fpirit all 
 
 C07?ipafi oi fixQ." 
 
 28 13 Compare A Fooles Bolt, &c., p. 12, 1. 17. 
 
 29 5 "Thou hall an ore," &c., a proverb mentioned by 
 
 Heywood, and occurring in Harvey's Trimming of 
 Thomas NaJJie, Gentleman, 1597, "It is not good 
 to have an oar in every man's boat." 
 
 30 7 "Wounds, hart, and blood," i.e., him who fwears by 
 
 God's wounds (zounds), blood ('fblood), &c. 
 
 31 16 Compare Shakfpere, Merchant of Ve?iice, i. i, and As 
 
 You Like It, ii. 7. 
 
 34 18 " Als one, to hew," &c., i.e., it is all the fame as trying 
 to hew a pillar made of braffe. 
 
 37 14 Hence the proverb, " Take time by the forelock," Time 
 being always reprefented with a long lock of hair 
 in front, and bald behind. Dionyfms Cato, in his 
 Difliches, No. 17, gives "Fronte capillata efl pofl 
 occafio calva," and Cooper, in his Thefaurus, 1584, 
 has "Pofl hec occafio calva; take occafion when 
 it commeth, for he that will not when he may, 
 Avhen he wyll he fhall have nay." Phaedrus alfo 
 defcribes this deity as follows — 
 
 " Curfu ille volucri pendens in novacula, 
 Calvus, comofa fronte, nudo corpore, 
 Quem fi occuparis, teneas; elapfum femel 
 Nee ipfe poffit Jupiter reprendere : 
 Occafionem remm fignificat brevem." 
 
 So Spenfer,i^(?rj/ Qjieene, ii. 4,4, fpeaks of Occafion 
 (Opportunity) as — 
 
 ' ' In ragged robes and filthy difaray, 
 Her other leg was lame, that Ihe no'te walke, 
 But on a ftaffe her feeble fleps did flay ; 
 Her lockes, that loathly were and hoarie gray, 
 Grew all afore, and loofly hong unrold, 
 But all behinde was bald, and worne away, 
 That none thereof could ever taken hold, 
 And fhe her face ill favour'd, full of wrinckles old." 
 
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 39 12 "the paffing-bel,"' the bell tolled to announce a death. 
 The phrafe is flill in ufe. 
 
 IX.— SIX LONDON GOSSIPS, 1607. 
 Not now known to cxifl. — See BibliograpJiical Index, p. 20. 
 
 X.—DIOGINES LANTHORNE, 1607. 
 
 6 20 On Iceland and its Stockfifh, ^qq \hQ Libel of EngliJIi 
 
 Policie, 1483, printed in Wright's Political Songs, 
 Rolls Series, ii. 191, and Andrew Boorde's 
 Breviary, &c., Early Englifli Text Society, ed. 
 Furnivall, p. 141. 
 
 7 23 "his fleppes take the longitude and the latitude," &c., 
 
 that is, he reels from one fide of the road to the 
 
 other. There is a cant phrafe flill in ufe fimilar to 
 
 this : a drunken man is faid to meafure the breadth 
 
 as well as the length of the road. 
 28 If you tell him anything he will fay : " tut don't tell me, 
 
 I know more," &c. 
 35 " gutter," Lat. guttur, the throat, " Lattice."— See More 
 
 Knaves Yet, p. 29, 1. 10, 
 9 15 An Oflrich was popularly fuppofed able to digeft 
 
 a7iything. 
 24 "a flares," /.^., he flares. 
 16 2 "Lazie," ?>., lazinefs. 
 
 17 See alfo Knave of Harts, p. 43, 1. 13. 
 
 18 19 " Padners," read Panders. 
 
 19 II " Butheer's," read But heer's. 
 
 21 I This is the well-known fable of the Mice and the Cat. 
 
 See the verfion in P. Plowjnan, Prologue, 167, and 
 
 Prof Skeat's Note. 
 26 26 "doubt the worfl," i.e., fear, prepare for the worft. 
 
 See "Doubt" in Gloffary.
 
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 3 
 
 
 12 
 
 28 
 
 27 
 
 33 
 
 5 
 
 Notes. 
 
 "cenfure wrong," either, give wrong judgments, or 
 judge a thing to be wrong. 
 
 " peopled welt," read people dwelt. 
 
 Perhaps, " of honefl men who acSt jullly." 
 
 " At daggers drawing." This form of the pafl participle 
 is not infrequent in Rowlands : thus he ufes, " I 
 am beholding.'^ — See A whole Creiv of kind GoJJlps, 
 
 P- i3> 1- 15- 
 
 35 28 ''Wee ought complaine," &c. Query read, we oft 
 
 complain. 
 
 29 " At our diflike eftate," i.e., at our condition or fortune, 
 
 which is unequal or unlike to that of others. Cf 
 " all eflatcs of men." 
 
 30 " ourfelues not pleaf'd," i.e., if our own wiflaes are not 
 
 fatisfied. 
 
 36 12 " Contended," read contented. 
 13 " Th' Aflronomer," i.e., Thales. 
 
 26 " Saturne and all the Seauen," i.e., all the feven planets. 
 — Compare Milton, Paradife LofI, iii. 48 1 ; and 
 P. Ploivmaii, B. text, xv. 354. 
 41 II Compare Shakfpere — 
 
 " Uneafy lies the head that wears a crown." 
 and Richard II., Act iii. fc. 2. 
 
 XL— HUMORS LOOKING GLASS, 1608. 
 
 " Duke Humphries tombe." A part of the public walks 
 in old St. Paul's was called Duke Humphrey's 
 Walk, and here thofe who had not the means of 
 defraying the expenfe of a dinner at a tavern, were 
 accullomed to walk in the hope of being invited 
 by fome friend. Hence, to walk about Duke 
 Humphrey's tomb is equivalent to the old faying, 
 "to dine with Duke Humphrey," i.e., go without 
 a dinner. Although Duke Humphrey was popu- 
 
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 larly fuppofed to be buried in old St. Paul's, he 
 was in reality buried at St. Albans. — See Hazlitt's 
 EfigltJIi Proverbs, &c., p. 415; and Stow's Survey 
 of Lofidoft, ed. Thorns, p. 125. 
 
 6 7 "Frier Bacon's Head." — Seethe Melaftcholie Knight, 
 
 p. 44, 1. I. 
 
 7 13 " Wenf-worth," Wandfworth. 
 
 9 8 In the Metrical Romance of Robert the Devil we find 
 this proverb as, " Nede hath no cure;" and in 
 Skelton's Colyn Clout, 1520, "Nedehathnolawe." 
 
 11 10 On the extravagance of the ladies' drefs at this time, 
 
 fee Stubbes' Afiatomie of Abufes, ed. Furnivall, 
 pp. 78-9, and note at p. 270. 
 
 12 I The Greeks had a proverb, Trept ovov o-klu? dywiu^icrdai. 
 
 " to fight for the fhadow of an afs," which occurs in 
 Arift-ophanes, Wafps, 191, the origin of which is 
 faid to have been a fpeech by Demollhenes, 
 who, when he found on one occafion the jury 
 indifpofed to pay much attention to his pleading, 
 told them the tale as here given, and thus attracted 
 their attention; having done which he proceeded 
 with his fpeech. The proverb means, of courfe, 
 to fight for trifles. 
 
 13 6 " the wandring Prince of Troy" — ^neas. The mean- 
 
 ing is : to become a greater traveller than yEneas. 
 18 A proverbial expreffion. Effex was celebrated for its 
 calves, in reference to which we have a proverb: 
 " As wife as Waltham's calf, that ran nine miles to 
 fuck a bull." An Effex calf is equivalent to a 
 filly country clown. — Compare " Veau, a calfe or 
 veale: alfo, a lofell, noyden, dunce, jobbernoll, 
 dodipole," Cotgrave. 
 
 16 12 "flillified," as though diflilled from the pipe through 
 the mouthpiece into the receiver (the mouth). 
 
 19 2 " Alcides," Hercules. He threw down the pillars fet 
 up by Hercules at the Straits of Gibraltar. 
 F 
 
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 19 
 
 7 
 
 21 
 
 12 
 
 25 
 
 I 
 
 Notes. 
 
 "Plutoes Regiment," Pluto's kingdom, hell. 
 
 " intot'h," read into th'. 
 
 Hazlitt quotes a proverb : " As queer as Dick's hat- 
 band, made of peallraw, that went nine times 
 round, and would not meet at lafl." 
 29 13 The Bear-garden, on the banks of the Thames at 
 Southwark, was a favorite place of amufement in 
 the time of Queen Elizabeth, and is frequently 
 alluded to by writers of the period. — See Stow's 
 Survey, ed. Thorns, pp. 36 and 151; and note to 
 The Night Raveji, p. 131. 
 31 5 "Vliffes treafure," that is, a faithful wife fuch as 
 Penelope, the wife of Ulyffes, who was celebrated 
 for her chaflity and affe6lion for her hufband. 
 
 XII.— DOCTOR MERRIE-MAN, 1609. 
 
 5 2 Twenty low fellows did I call gentleman. 
 
 6 12 "fold at. Who giues more?" i.e., if fold at an au6lion. 
 
 7 TO "had excufed thine," z>., by taking his place. 
 II II "getleman," read gentleman. 
 
 13 16 "In few," i.e., in a few words, in fhort. — Compare 
 
 Shakfpere, Tempejl, i. 2, 144; and Hamlet, i. 3, 1 26. 
 
 14 8 "Phificke of almes vpon you He beflow," I will give 
 
 you phyfic gratis, as in charity. 
 27 "Moouing a fecret match," &c., i.e., trying to induce 
 her to agree to a fecret agreement. This is the 
 "Shipman's Tale" of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. 
 16 4 "friens," read friends. The rhythm of the line is 
 imperfe6l. 
 26 " Give a dog an ill name, you may as well hang him." 
 29 Hazlitt gives the proverb, "One man may better fleal 
 a horfe, than another look over the hedge." It 
 occurs in Lyly's Endimion, 1591. 
 18 3 "we lacke," i.e., are wanted, are miffed. 
 
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 1 8 29 " Expedling," i.e., looking or hoping for. 
 
 21 13 Compare Stubbes' Anatoinie of Abufes, pp. 89-90, and 
 the following: — " What, do you figh? this it is to 
 kifs the hand of a countefs^ to have her coach feni 
 for you, to hang poniards in ladies' garters, to 
 wear bracelets of their hair, and for every one of 
 thefe great favours, to give fome flight jeiael of five 
 hundred crowns or fo: why, 'tis nothing! Now, 
 monfieur, you fee the plague that treads on the 
 heels o' your foppery : well, go your ways in, re- 
 move yourfelf to the two-penny ward quickly to 
 fave charges." 1599. — Ben Jonfon, Every Man 
 out of his Hujuour, V. vii. ; Works, i., p. 138, 
 col, 2. 
 
 23 2 For an account of the Compter in Wood Street, fee 
 
 Stow's Survey, ed. Thorns, p. iii, and note to 
 Looke to it, &c., p. 35, 1. 12. 
 4 Houndfditch was then, as now, the noted refort for 
 Jews and fecond-hand clothes dealers. 
 
 24 13 A friend who comes to me every day mufl pay as much 
 
 as any flranger who only comes up to town while 
 the Courts are fitting. 
 
 XIII.— A WHOLE CREW, &c., 1609. 
 
 10 " much difcretion lackes," i.e., is fadly wanting. — Com- 
 pare note to Doflor Aferrieman, p. 18, 1. 3, above. 
 
 15 "refraine," i.e., refrain from. — Cf. p. 16, 1. 7. 
 3 " Propper," read proper. 
 
 9 ''to be intreated for her drinke," i.e., to need preffmg 
 to drink. 
 
 12 So Tuffer: "Play thou the good fellow," ch. 30, fl.. 3. 
 
 13 " with any flie," with any woman. 
 
 1 6 "Too too free." Ray, in Colle^ion of North Country 
 
 Words, 1 69 1 (Englifh DialecSl Society, ed. Skeat, 
 
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 p. 70) fays : "Too-too, adv.., ufed abfolutely for very 
 well or [very] good," and in Thorefby's Letter to 
 Ray {Ibid., p. 108) we find: "Toota well, adv., 
 very well, too too well; Tuta, adv. too too, ' thou'rt 
 tuta earnefl,' clamorous, covetous, importunate, 
 unfatiffyable." Too too is conllantly ufed by 
 Harrifon in his Defcription of England (New 
 Shakfpere Society, ed. Furnivall). — Compare 
 Hamlet, i. 2, "Oh! that this too too foUd fielh 
 would melt." 
 4 24 Hazlitt gives the proverb, " I know befl where the fhoe 
 wringeth me." Chaucer, in the " Merchant's Tale," 
 fays 
 
 ' ' Bot I wot bed wher wryngeth me my fcho. " 
 
 7 I " It is better to be a flirew than a fheep." " It is better 
 to marry a Ihrew than a flieep." — Hazlitt's 
 Proverbs, &c. " A fhrew is better than a fheep " 
 occurs in Taylor's Pajloral, 1624, and Tuffer, p. 
 
 1575 ft- 23, has 
 
 ' ' As good a fhrew is as a fheepe 
 For you to take to wiue." 
 
 13 15 "beholding." — See HeWs Broke Loofe, p. 20, 1. 14, and 
 
 Diogenes LantJiorne, p. 33, 1. 5. 
 
 14 23 I fuppofe this to mean : leaves his wife to get on as beft 
 
 file may. — See Halliwell, f.v. Set. 
 16 7 Compare p. 2, 1. 15. 
 
 18 29 "A Vintners bufh," or fign. — See Knave of Harts, p. 
 
 20, ]. 12. 
 
 19 7 For the following note I am indebted to the kindnefs 
 
 of Mr. F. J. Furnivall. Mr. Ebfworth kindly 
 
 identifies thefe fongs : — 
 
 (2) " My man Thomas 
 Bid me promife 
 He would vifit me this night. 
 Thomas. ] ' I am here, love ; 
 
 Tell me, dear love ; 
 How I may obtain thy fight.' 
 
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 Notes. 
 
 Maid.'] Come up to my windoW; love; 
 Come, come, come ! 
 
 Come to my window, my dear; 
 The wind nor the rain 
 Shall trouble thee again, 
 
 But thou flialt be lodged here." 
 
 Two Other verfes are elfewhere fung by Old 
 Merrythought — 
 
 " Go from my window, love, go; 
 Go from my window, my dear ; 
 The wind and the rain 
 Will drive you back again, 
 You cannot be lodged here. 
 
 Begone, begone, my juggy, my puggy. 
 Begone, my love, my dear ! 
 The weather is warm 
 'Twill do thee no harm ; 
 Thou can'fl not be lodged here." 
 
 (3) '' A pinnace rigg'd with filken faile " is extant 
 in an early MS. (time noted, before 1609), be- 
 longing to a friend of mine. I will print it foon 
 in The Amanda Group of Bag ford Poems, for the 
 Ballad Society. 
 
 " A pinnace rigg'd with filken faile. 
 What is more lovely then to fee ? 
 But Hill to fee is fmall availe : 
 I mufl aboord, as thinketh mee. 
 To fee is well, 
 But more to tell 
 Lackes more then fight, you will agree." 
 (etc. four other verfes.) 
 
 (6) I have the Catch " I'le tye my Mare in thy 
 ground." There is alfo another, " Tye the Mare, 
 Tom, boy!" of early date, (i) I have (certainly 
 of 1601) " Miftrefs, fmce you fo much defire/' 
 probably refembling " Miflrefs will you do?" 
 
 (7) I beheve that " Beffs for abufes!" I alfo have 
 a clue to; and I know of one, " Pretty Nightin- 
 gale," of date 1575, 
 
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 ' ' Litle pretty nightingale, 
 
 Among the braunches greene, 
 Geue us of your Chriflmaffe ale, 
 In the honour of Saint Steven." 
 
 But this is a " Mock " to the original, which I 
 poflefs from an early MS., beginning thus — 
 
 " The lytyll prety nyghtyngale, 
 Among the levys grene, 
 I wolde I were with hur all nyght, 
 But yet ye wot not whome I mene," 
 etc., etc. 
 
 {4) I have alfo one fong beginning "Ye pretty 
 birds that chirp and fingj" but its date is much 
 later in the feventeenth century ; the author was 
 not fcrupulous in availing himfelf of elder fug- 
 geflions, and occafionally would " convey, the 
 wife it call!"— J. W. Ebfworth. On 2, 3, 6 of 
 thefe Mr. Wm. Chappell fays : " See my Popular 
 MufiCy p. 738, for ' My Man Thomas/ 'A Pinnace 
 riggd,' and ' I'll tie my Mare :' 
 
 ' A pinnace rigg'd with filken fail, 
 What is more lovely than to fee ? 
 But ftill to fee is fmall avail; 
 I mufl aboord, as thinketh me.' 
 
 It is full of double meanings." In Popular Miific, 
 738, are fix lines and the mufic of My man 
 Thomas, of which twelve lines were fung in 
 Fletcher's Monjieur Thomas, A61 III. fc. iii. 
 (B. & F.'s Works, 1839, i. 481, col. i). See too 
 the note for p. 185. Compare the following 
 cancelled entry in the " Stationers' Regiflers," 
 Arber's Tranfcript, ii. 576: 
 
 " 7. niarcij [1590-1] 
 
 Thomas Goffon Entred for his copie a ballad ofayonge man that iveat a 
 
 Cancelled out of "^'^ooying, &c. Abell Jeffes to be his printer hereof Pro- 
 
 the book, for the vyded alwayes, that before the publifliinge hereof the 
 vndecentnes of il . , , ^ _ .,,. 
 
 in Diuerfe verfes. vndecentnes be reformed vj° 
 
 46
 
 Notes. 
 
 PAGE LINE 
 
 19 23 "fpare to fpend it vpon me," i.e., may avoid or fave 
 fpending it on me. 
 
 22 19 Compare Tuffer, "of wiuing and thriuing,"fl. 16 — 
 
 " It is not idle going about, 
 Nor all day pricking on a clout, 
 Can make a man to thrive." 
 
 23 26 "'tis' an argument," i.e.., 'tis a dear proof. 
 
 25 8 In a MS. of the fifteenth century, printed for the Percy 
 
 Society by Mr, T. Wright, is a fong, the heading 
 
 of which is — 
 
 " Nova, Nova, fawe you ever fuch, 
 Tlie mofle mayfter of the Hows weryth no brych." 
 
 and the burden is — 
 
 " Left the moft mayfter wer no brych." 
 
 26 8 Equivalent to faying he would give £,^00 if his wife 
 
 fhould die the next day. 
 32 3 " In a doore," i.e., indoors, at home. 
 
 8 This appears to be a fort of proverbial phrafe, meaning 
 
 "intoxicated." 
 10 "tume vpthe Keele," a metaphor taken from a veffel 
 
 capfifmg, here equivalent to rolling about, falling 
 
 down from drink. 
 T^l 18 Shakfpere's Taming of the Shrew was written, according 
 
 to Mr. Furnivall, in 1596-7. — See Bibliographical 
 
 Ijidex, p. 25. 
 35 9 Compare Taming of the Shrezv,\Y. 3,35; "Marry if I 
 
 ever faid loofe-bodied gowne, fow me in the tkirts 
 
 of it," and Tom Tell-Troth's New Yeares Gift, 
 
 ed. Furnivall, p. 144, 1. 6. 
 
 XIV.— THE KNAVE OF CLUBBES, 1609. 
 
 31" Fvllis" is Latin for a club. 
 
 46" Bedlem-bowling alley," read Bedlem bowling-alley. 
 
 — See Kind-Barfs Dreme, reprinted for the Percy 
 
 Society, p. 35. 
 
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 Notes. 
 
 l-AGE LINE 
 
 5 8 The Egyptians confidered fome animals as facred to 
 their various deities, and decked them out and 
 honoured them accordingly. 
 75" More-fieldes." The pleafant walkes of Moore- 
 fields formed a general promenade during fummer. 
 The ground was left to the city by Mary and 
 Catherine, daughters of Sir W. Feries, a Knight 
 of Rhodes, tettip: Edward the Confeffor. R. 
 Johnfon, a poetafler of the fixteenth century, 
 publifhed in 1607, "The Pleafant Walkes of 
 Moore fieldes, Being the guift of two Sillers, now 
 beautified to the continuing fame of this worthy 
 Citty." Printed at London for Henry Goffon, 
 and are to be fold at the Signe of the Sun in 
 Pater noller Row. 4to, black letter, 12 leaves. 
 In the Bodleian Library. 
 
 IT 14 "do and twoot," i.e., do and thou wiltj if you pleafe. 
 
 13 9 I will clear the debt off the pofl. 
 
 15 4 " Sour fauce," made of forrel or verjuice, was eaten 
 
 with goofe. — See Wynkyn de Worde's Boke of 
 Keruynge, printed in the Babees Book, ed. Fur- 
 nivall, p. 184, 1. 2. Harman, ed. Furnivall, p. 72, 
 gives a proverb, " Swete meate wille have fowre 
 fauce." 
 15 Burftow-Cawfee, Brifi.ol.— See Tom Tell Troth, ed. 
 Furnivall, p. 173, 1. 5. Gads-hill in Kent. — See 
 Knave of Clubbes, p. 42, 1. 17. Coome Parke, 
 Combe Wood in Surrey; all noted localities for 
 highwaymen. — See alfo p. 42, 1. 16. In 1558 a 
 ballad was publiflied with the title, " The Robbery 
 at Gadfhill."— See Dekker and Webfl.er's Wefl- 
 ward Hoe, 1606, ed. 1873, p. 308: "the way lies 
 ouer Gadfliill, very dangerous." 
 
 16 19 " ro be fpent," read to be fpent. 
 
 19 6 " Character and vocables." — See note to Letting of 
 Humour's Blood, &c., p. 59, 1. 19. 
 
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 Notes. 
 
 I'AGK LINE 
 
 19 22 " Ball." In the Pro?npt. Parv. this name is applied to 
 a flieep; in Tuffer, ch. 92, fl. 2, to a horfe; and 
 in The Privy Expenfes of Hetiry VIIL, p. 43, to 
 a dog, as here. 
 
 21 II See a fimilar tale in The Plea/ant Conceites of old 
 Uobfon, the merry Londojier, 1607. Reprinted 
 for the Percy Society by Mr. Halliwell, 1843. 
 
 23 A fimilar tale is told in The Groundworke of Cofmy- 
 
 catching, 1592, leaf 7, which is reprinted by Mr. 
 Furnivall, in his edition of Harman, p. 102. 
 
 24 6 See Looke to it, &c., p. 36, 1. 5, and Knave of Spades, 
 
 p. 35. Taylor, in " The Great Eater of Kent, or 
 Part of the Admirable Teeth and Stomachs 
 Exploits of Nicholas Wood of Harrifom (Harriet- 
 fham) in the County of Kent, &c.," 1630, fays, p. 
 145 : "Milo the Crotian could hardly be his equall; 
 and Woolner of Windfor was not worthy to be his 
 footman. " Woolner's Hillory is told by Dr. Moffet 
 in his Treatife Health's Improver, &c. — See alfo 
 the Oitdes Alma?iacke, 161 8, p. 53; and the Life of 
 Long Meg of Weflminfler, 1582, ch. 7. 
 17 "To make the (hot," i.e., to make up the bill, to pay the 
 balance. " Shot," more properly " fcot," is a com- 
 mon mode of expreffion to denote a reckoning, 
 • &c., hoxafcottum, a tax or contribution. Cotgrave 
 gives " ef cotter, euery one to pay his fhot, or to 
 contribute fomewhat towards it."' 
 
 26 12 "we fland vppon the fcore," i.e., we are not yet free 
 from it. 
 
 29 10 This was Edward AUeyn the A<5lor. The play is Mar- 
 lowe's Magicall Hiflory of Dr. Fauflus, publifhed 
 in 1604. 
 
 31 2 " Pago, Crago,'' unmeaning words, ufed in incantations, 
 
 &c., by the aflrologers and fortune tellers. 
 
 32 16 A6leon was turned into a flag for prefuming to look at 
 
 Diana while bathing; his brow thus fwelled with 
 G 
 
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 Notes. 
 
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 the horns growing there. Of courfe, there is here 
 the fecondary and coarfe meaning of " make him 
 a cuckold." 
 
 32 16 A fimilar tale to this is given in Mr. Wright's Introduc- 
 tion to the Seven Sages (Percy Society, 1846), p. xi. 
 The lady in this verfion hides the firfl lover, a Have, 
 while the fecond ruflies out with fword drawn. 
 The hufband in alarm enquires the meaning of the 
 diflurbance, and the wife declares the fecond lover 
 to have been an officer in purfuit of his flave, whom 
 flie, to fave his life, had hidden in the inner room. 
 The flory alfo is found in the Deeamero/i, and fre- 
 quently in the colle6lions of the middle ages. 
 
 42 17 See Note to p. 15, 1. 15. 
 
 47 3 "though long before," i.e., though it was a long time 
 before the wound was cured, and feemed likely to 
 have coft her her life. 
 
 XV.— MARTIN MARK-ALL, 1610. 
 
 5 13 So in Canting Songs, 1725 — 
 
 "This doxy dell can cut ben wliids, 
 And 7vap well for a 7vin, 
 And prig and cloy fo benfliiply ; 
 Each deufeavile within." 
 
 Sharp's MS. WanvickJJiire Gloffary gives, " Brum- 
 vi\Sig&n-7nachs, Birmingham-wrt'/^i?jr, a term for bafe 
 and counterfeit copper money in circulation before 
 the great recoinage." 
 
 6 17 '$)tQ Bibh'ographieal Index, \). 29. 
 
 7 17 "lacke of the Clocke-houfe," an expreffion ufed by 
 
 Dekker for a fharper. — See Halliwell, f.v. Jack. 
 This meeting and the calling of the Jury, (S:c., is a (kit 
 on Dekker's account of the feafl of the vagabonds. 
 Dekker was led by " an old nimble-tong'd bel- 
 
 50
 
 Notes. 
 
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 dam,'" to a loft " where, vnfeene, I might, through 
 a wooden Latice that had profpedl of the dining 
 roome, both fee and heare all that was to be done 
 or fpoken. . . . The whole affembly being 
 thus gathered together, one, amongfl: the refl, 
 who tooke vpon him a feniority ouer the refl, 
 charged euery man to anfwer to his name, to fee 
 if the Jury were full: — the Bell by which hee 
 meant to call them being a double Jug of ale 
 (that had the fpirit of Aquavitce in it, it fmelt fo 
 flrong), and that hee held in his hand. Another, 
 flanding by, with a toafl, nutmeg, and ginger, 
 ready to cry Voiis avez as they were cald, and all 
 that were in the roome hauing fmgle pots by the 
 eares, which, like Piflols, were charged to goe off 
 fo foone as euer they heard their names. This 
 ceremony beeing fet abroade, an Oyes was made. 
 But he that was Re6lory Chory [leader of the 
 Choir or Company] (the Captain of the Tatter- 
 demallions) fpying one to march vnder his colours, 
 that had never before ferued in thefe lowfie Avarres, 
 paufed awhile (after hee had taken his firft draught, 
 to tafl the dexterity of the liquor), and then began, 
 Juflice-like, to examine the yonger brother vpon 
 interrogatories." After this young brother has been 
 " flailed to the wyne," the feafl follows, and one 
 of the company then makes a fpeech " in praife 
 of Beggery and of thofe that profeffe the trade." — 
 Belman of London, 1 608. See Mr. FurnivaU's 
 Introdu6lion to Harman, p. xv. 
 7 31 "An Vpright man is one that goeth wyth the truncheon 
 of a flaffe, which flafife they cal a Filtchman. 
 This man is of fo much authority, that meeting 
 with any of his profeffion, he may call them to 
 accompt & commaund a fhare or fnap vnto him- 
 felfe of al that they haue gained by their trade in 
 
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 Notes. 
 
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 one raoneth. And if he doo them wrong, they 
 haue no remedy agaynfl hym, no though he beate 
 them, as he vfeth commonly to do. He may alfo 
 commaund any of their women, which they cal 
 Doxies, to feme his turne. He hath ye chiefefl 
 place at any market walke, & other affemblies, & is 
 not of any to be controled." — Awdeley, Fraternity 
 of Vagabonds, ed. Furnivall, p. 4. 
 31 "A Tinkard leaueth his bag a fvveating at the Ale- 
 houfe, which they terme their Bowfing In, and in 
 the meane feafon goeth abrode a begging." — 
 Ibid., p. 5. See alfo Harman, ed. Furnivall, 
 pp. 31-59, and A Lijl of Vpright Men, pp. 78-82. 
 34 "Autem." Harman, p. 67, fays: "Thefe Autem 
 Mortes be maried women, as there be but a fewe. 
 For Autem in their Language is a Churche; fo 
 fhe is a wyfe maried at the Church, and they be 
 as challe as a Cowe I haue, that goeth to Bull 
 every moone, with what Bull fhe careth not. 
 Thefe walke mofl times from their hufbands' 
 companye a moneth and more to gether, being 
 affociate with another as honed as her felfe. 
 Thefe Avyll pylfar clothes of hedges: fome of 
 them go with children of ten or xii. yeares of age : 
 yf tyme and place feme for their purpofe they 
 wyll fend them into fome houfe at the window, 
 to fleale and robbe, which they call in their 
 language, Milling of the Ken: and wil go with 
 wallets on their Ihoulders, and flates at their 
 backes." 
 
 4 See Greenes Ghofi, p. 28. 
 
 4 " Briflow." " A Scotch taylour to make her fhoulders 
 of the breadth oi Brifloiv cowfway." — Tom of all 
 Trades, ed. Furnivall, 173, 5. 
 
 8 " Dorfer-maker:" a maker of hangings, tapeflry, v.o. 
 Fr. dorfal.
 
 Notes. 
 
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 9 1 6 A " cockle " in Kent is " a flove for drying hops ;" but 
 here it probably means the weed gatherer, the 
 cockle, properly the cornflower, being ufed for 
 any weed. 
 13 34 Nafli in his Pierce Pcnnileffe, 1592, has this word: 
 " And with a trice truffe up thy life in the firing 
 oi \}a.y fancehell.'''' 
 
 15 8 I know of no other inflance of this variation from the 
 
 common phrafe: " to fay boh to a goofe." 
 29 " faidis," read faid is. 
 
 2,2, The fame expreffion is ufed by Harrifon, Def crip f ton 
 of England, 1587, folio 115: " we will fl:and to 
 our tackling." 
 lafl line. " vilde." This form of the word is not uncommon in 
 our early writers. — See Nares, f v. 
 
 16 5 Compare Harman, ed, Furnivall, p. 82, "lowtering 
 
 lufhes, and lazy loffels." 
 9 The bafilifk was fuppofed to have the power of killing 
 people by a mere glance of its eye, fo full was it 
 of venom. In my edition of Gejia Romatiorum 
 (Early Englifli Text Society), ch. 57, is an 
 account how, when Alexander was befieging a 
 town, numbers of his men perifhed through the 
 influence of a bafilifk on the wall. 
 
 17 14 "Filchman." — See note to p. 7, 1. 31. 
 
 22 The fame form is ufed by Ttiffer (Englifh Diale6l 
 Society), ed. Herrtage, ch. 87, fl:. 5 — 
 
 "Where puUen vfe nightly to pearch in the yard." 
 
 20 23 "as the beggar knowes his diflie:" this proverb occurs 
 
 in Harman, p. 32. 
 25 "you will vngratioufly confider," &c., i.e., you will 
 confider our hardfhips as improper andundeferved. 
 
 21 10 " Knaues-borough plaine, .... neuer heard of vntill 
 
 of late daies." Harman (the M[afl.er]_^^ H. of the 
 margin) mentions in his Treatife on Vagabonds,
 
 Notes. 
 
 PAGE LINE 
 
 p. 77, Knapfberry Inn, near London, as one of 
 the chief reforts of thieves, &c. 
 26 7 "Ireland." Probably Rowlands' knowledge of Ireland 
 was derived from Spenfer's View of the Prefent 
 State of Irelan d, 1598. 
 
 29 12 " When the blacke Oxe," &c. A proverbial phrafe fig- 
 
 nifying, to meet with adverfity or trouble. — See 
 Hazlitt's Proverbs, &c., p. 359. In Bernard's 
 tranflation of Terence, we find: '• Profperitie liangs 
 on his fleeue; the black oxe cannot tread on his 
 foot." — See alfo my edition oiT\xiiQx( Five Htmdred 
 Poi7its), ch. 67, fl. 6, and the note. 
 15 "weeping croffe," feveral of thefe fo-called croffes 
 exifled in England. Thus, in Notes and Queries, 
 5tli feries, ix., 246, one is mentioned; and again 
 5th feries, ix., 459, it is flated that there was one 
 between Banbury and Adderbury, removed in 
 1803; another near Stafford, and a third near 
 Shrewfbury. Their origin is difcuffed in Gefitle- 
 inaiis Magazine for Auguft, 1841. "To go, or 
 come, home by weeping crofs," is equivalent to 
 "to return home in grief." In Wallington's 
 Hijloric Notices we read : " At Stone, is faid that 
 the Cavaliers have taken their cattle, and drave 
 them to their quarters, but do fell cheap penny- 
 worths of other men's goods. A butcher went to 
 make a purchafe amongfl them, took a fum of 
 money, and bought cattle at an eafy rate, making 
 account of a very great gain ; but as he returned, 
 another troop met him, and took his bargain out 
 of his hand, and fent him home by tueeping croffe^' 
 vol. ii., p. 112. See alfo Nares, f.v. 
 
 30 9 Saturn was brother (not fon) to Celus, and fon of Ura7ius 
 
 and Terra. 
 
 31 7 "Lycaon, a King of Arcadie, and fonne of Pelafgus, 
 
 of whom Guide writeth thus : Jupiter, after he had 
 
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 Notes. 
 
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 heard great complainte of the wickedncs of man- 
 kinde, came downe into the worldc to vnderflande 
 whether it were true or no. When he came to 
 Arcadie to King Lycaon's palayce, and there had 
 geuen by myracle fome token of his godhead, the 
 people came in to worfhip him, and to do facrifice 
 vnto him. But Lycaon derided their curiofitee 
 and faid, that the fame night he would vnderfland, 
 whether he enterteyned a god or a man. Where- 
 fore priuily in the night he came into the chamber, 
 and woulde haue murdered him. But when he 
 fawe his wicked attempte took no place, he affaied 
 an other way. The nexte day he kylled yonge 
 gentlemen of the MoUoflians, that there were with 
 him as pledges, and ferued the flefh of one of them 
 to Jupiter fyttyng at the table, to trye whether he 
 weare a god or no. He therefore detellinge that 
 horrible and wicked adle, with lightnynge fyred the 
 tyrannespalaiceandtournedhimfelfeintoawoulfe." 
 Cooper's Thefaunis, 1584. 
 
 32 27 "Hearbe Rue." — See note to A Terrible Battell, &c., 
 p. 24, 1. 12. 
 
 36 fide note. " goode cheape." — See note to A Terrible Battell, 
 
 P- 7, I- 5- 
 21 Dekker, in an addrefs "To my owne Nation," in his 
 
 LantJwrne and Candle-light, publifhed in 1609, 
 
 refers to Rowlands, and calls him " a Ufurper." 
 
 41 10 " Foxe Hall," now Vauxhall. 
 
 46 28 This is a fanciful derivation of the name Roberfs- 
 vien. The term was In ufe long before Henry VI. 's 
 reign. Thus in P. Ploioman, B. Prol., 45, we 
 read, " rifen with ribaudye, tho roberdes knaues " 
 and again, 
 
 " And ryght as Robertes-men raken [^wander) aboute, 
 At feires & at full ales & fyllen the cuppe. " 
 
 Pierce the Ploiiglvnan\^ Creed, 1. 72. 
 
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 Notes. 
 
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 Warton, Hiftory of EngliJJi Poetry. 1840, ii., 95, 
 fays — " Rohartes-men or Robertfmen were a fet of 
 lawlefs vagabonds, notorious for their outrages 
 when Piers Plowman was written." The flatute 
 of Edward III. (ann: reg: 5, cap. xiv.) fpecifies 
 " divers manflaughters, felonies, and robberies 
 done by people that be called Roberdfmen, 
 waflours and drawlacches." And the flatute of 
 Richard II. (ann: reg: 7, cap. v.) ordains "that 
 the ilatute of Edward concerning Roherdefme7i 
 and drawlacches fhould be rigoroufly obferved." 
 Sir Edward Coke {Injlitutes, iii. 197) fuppofes 
 them •' to have been originally the followers of 
 RoI)i?i Hood, in the reign of Richard I." — See 
 Blackflone's Commentaries, iv., ch. 17. William 
 of Naffmgton fays they tried the latches of 
 people's doors, contrived to get into houfes, and 
 then extorted money either by telling fome lying 
 tale, or by playing the bully. — See alfo the Con- 
 feffion of ^' Roberd the robber" in P. Plowman, 
 B. V. 469. 
 54 31 A rail\ii3,s a garment of fine linen formerly worn by 
 women round the neck. Palfgrave gives : " Rayle 
 for a woman's necke, crevechief e?i qjtarttre doubles ;" 
 and Florio, p. 216, has "anything worne about 
 the throate or necke, as a neck-kercher, a partlet, 
 a railed "A raile or 'k.exc\\tx,mammillare," Withals. 
 Railed, in the prefent inflance, thus means : with 
 ropes for rails (or neckties) round their necks. 
 57 9 See "The xxv orders of Knaues, otherwife called a 
 quarterne of Knaues, confirmed for euer by Cocke 
 Lorell." — Introdu6tion to Mr. Furnivall's volume 
 oi Awdeley and Harma?t on Vagabonds, t^. 12. 
 17 " Egiptians." — See Harman, p. 23. 
 
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 Notes. 
 
 XVI.— THE KNAVE OF HARTS, 1612. 
 
 PAGE LINE 
 
 39" damn'd :" the metre requires damne'd. 
 
 4 14 " Tyburnc-tiffany," the halter. More ufually " Tyburn- 
 
 tippet."' Latimer in his Scnnofis fays — "The 
 bifliop of Rome fent him a cardinalles hatte. 
 He fliould have had a Tiburne tippet, a halfepenny 
 halter, and all fuch proud prelates." 
 
 5 I Alluding to The Knave of Cluhbes having paffed through 
 
 two editions; but fee Bibliographical Index, 
 pp. 30-1. 
 lafl line, "flrickell," probably we fhould read flri6lefl. 
 85" Ralcals," read " rafcals." 
 
 10 I " Confort." The accent, as ufual in Rowlands, is on 
 
 the lall fyllable. 
 14 " Ideot-like," i.e., parti-coloured, like the dreffes of 
 jeflers. 
 9.12 We fliould now fay — " Who are the worll," &c. 
 
 11 4 "flat-Caps," the ufual fign of a city 'prentice. — See 
 
 Gloffary. 
 14 " fide-guarded," i.e., trimmed at the fides, fringed. 
 20 " A-non, A-non," i.e., to waiters at a tavern. — Cf. 'Tis 
 
 Merrie when GoJJlps Meete, p. 28, 1. 17. 
 
 12 3 On the extravagance in hats, ruffs, &c., fee Stubbes' 
 
 Anatomie of Abufes, p. 50. 
 6 And thofe they declare are all indented, and filled 
 only with froth. 
 14 "The Knaues he'll fingle out," &c., a common pradlice 
 in introducing a card trick. 
 
 14 17 " we that had gone naked," i.e., that fliould have gone 
 ' ' " • naked. 
 
 15 19 "fingring monie," &c., i.e., taking a bribe to recom- 
 
 mend or affifl another in obtaining an appoint- 
 ment. 
 
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 57
 
 Notes. 
 
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 t6 t4 So Tuffer, Five Hundred Points^ ch. lo, ft. 24 — 
 
 " With fome vpon Sundaies, their tables doe reeke, 
 And halfe the weeke after, their dinners iofeehe," 
 
 i.e., have to be fought for, are lacking. 
 17 18 'Twill put him to the expenfe of a wig. 
 
 19 14, 15 He is more afraid of meeting a clergyman than of 
 
 being taken in adultery. 
 
 20 2 "plaid the lacke," i.e., played the knave, been artful, 
 
 cheated; compare Shakfpere, Tempejl, iv., i, 197 : 
 '•' Monfler, your fairy .... has done 
 little better than played the Jack with us." — See 
 alfo Much Ado About Nothing, \., i, 186. 
 20 4 '■'■Pee and Keiv" good, and perfe6l in every refpedl. 
 Compare our expreffion : " mind your f% and ^'s." 
 1 2 The fign of a tavern in former times was generally an 
 ivy-buJJi, whence our proverb : " good wine needs 
 no bufli." — As You Zike It, Epilogne. Cotgrave 
 gives, f. v. Bon: "good wine draws cullomers 
 without any help of an ivy-bulli." In many places 
 to this day a bufh is the fign of an inn. — Compare 
 Chaucer's defcription of the Sompnour (Canter- 
 bury Tales, Prologue, 667) — 
 
 ' ' A gerlond hadde he fette vpon his hede, 
 As gret as it were for an aleftake." 
 
 22 9 "Caflle dolorets," Caflle (dolorous or) of forrows. 
 
 26 5 " As he doth jetting paffe." So Tuffer, ch. 113, ft. 38 — 
 
 ' ' To ride with pompe and pride, 
 Or for to iet in other's det. " 
 
 29 Compare the defcription oiLividia (Envy) in P. Plow- 
 man, B. text, V. 76, and Tuffer's Account of an 
 Envious Neighbour, ch. 64, p. 146. 
 31 21 Peter Lambert Avas executed at Tyburn, for the murder 
 of T. Hamden, in 1 610. In the fame year a fmall 
 quarto tra(fl was publifhed, with the title: "The 
 fucefs of fwaggering, fwearing, dicing, drunkenefs, 
 
 58
 
 Notes. 
 
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 and whoring; defcribed in the Life and Downfall 
 of Peter Lambert, who for the killing of Maifler 
 T. Hamden, was executed at Tiburne." 
 
 33 5 " Phlegeton," a burning river in the infernal regions. 
 6 " Acheron," alfo a river of hell. Spenfer's Faery Queene, 
 I. V. 33, fpeaks of " Acheron .... wailing woe- 
 fully," and "the fiery flood of Phlegeton." 
 
 35 19 *' race," i.e., erafe. 
 
 42 I Sharker =^ (harper : Gqx. fcharke, O. Fr. efcroc, a rogue; 
 
 originally to /crape. 
 
 43 9 That is : I mufl feel in my hand the amount of a French 
 
 Crown. 
 19 For this tale fee alfo Diogenes Lanthorne, p. 16, 1. 17. 
 
 46 I This and the following Epigram refer to an event then 
 
 frefla in the minds of all, A tradt, " The Arraign- 
 ment of John Selman, who was executed neere 
 Charing Croffe, the feventh of January, 1 6 1 2 ; for 
 a Felloney by him committed, in the King's 
 Chappell at White Hall, upon Chriftmas Day lafl, 
 in prefence of the King and divers of the Nobility ; 
 London, printed by W. H., for T. Archer, and 
 are to be fold at his (hop in Pope's-head Pallace," 
 was publiflied in 161 2. On the title-page is a 
 portrait of Selman. 
 19 '' Bladud,"the founder of the Cityof Bath.— See Robert 
 de Brunne's Chronicle (Rolls Series, ed. Furnivall), 
 p. 81, and Spenfer, Faery Queene, ii., 10, 25. 
 
 47 1 8 Hunckes and Stone were the names of two celebrated 
 
 bears, kept at the bear-gardens. 
 
 XVIL— MORE KNAVES YET? [1613?] 
 
 6 " affourdt," read affourd; and in the next line for 
 " knigh," read knight, the t having been tran- 
 fpofed. 
 
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 Notes, 
 
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 II "I will not fawne," &c., I will not flatter any perfon 
 by dedicating this book to him, and calling him 
 matchlefs, &c. 
 
 4 2 One who would put to Ihame Juno, &c. 
 
 5 12 Compare Knave of Harts, pp. 12-13, and Stubbes' 
 
 Anatomie of Abufes, p. 50. 
 5 16 This refers to the woodcut on the title-page, where the 
 Knave of Spades has large rofes at his knees and 
 fhoes, and the Knave of Diamonds has boots 
 with fpurs with large rowels, and embroidered 
 feams to his galligalkins. 
 
 7 7 " Cseneus," a Theffalian woman, originally named 
 
 Canis, who obtained from Neptune the power of 
 changing her fex, and becoming invulnerable. 
 She obtained great celebrity in the wars of the 
 Lapithse and Centaurs; but, having offended 
 Jupiter, was overwhelmed with a huge pile of 
 wood, and changed into a bird. Virgil fpeaks of 
 her as in the lower world. 
 
 8 I This refers to the two notorious pirates, Ward and 
 
 Danfikar. 
 10 Pfalm xiv. i : " The fool hath faid in his heart, There 
 
 is no God." 
 17 Alluding to the popular fuperftition that a fwan fang 
 
 on the approach of death. 
 
 9 12 " be'ing," read being. 
 
 T2 20 See note to A Terrible Battell, &c., p. 7, 1. 5; and 
 Hazlitt's Proverbs, &c., under "Light cheap, 
 lither yield." 
 
 13 laft line. " theis," read their; " theenes," read theeues. 
 
 14 I This proverb occurs in Gafcoigne's Steele Glaffe, 1576 
 
 (Arber's reprint), p. 57 ; and in Tuffer, ch. 36, fl. 32, 
 
 " All's fifh they get 
 That commeth to net." 
 
 22 " In watch,'" i.e., when on duty makes no diflindion 
 between friend and flranger. 
 
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 Notes. 
 
 I'AGE 
 
 15 18 See note to The Betraying 0/ C/iri/l, &c., p. 19, 1. 15. 
 
 16 10 We'll have a legal agreement written out next time. 
 20 3 " heaue'ns [read heauen's] 12 houfes." A technical 
 
 term in aflrology. We find it alfo under the form 
 " manfions " in Chaucer and Lydgate. The whole 
 celeflial fphere was divided into twelve equal por- 
 tions, called houfes, by fix great circles paffing 
 through the north and fouth points of the horizon, 
 two of thefe circles being the meridian and the 
 horizon. — See Prof Skeat's edition of Chaucer's 
 AJIrolabc, Introdu(5lion, p. liii., and his note to Man 
 of Law is Tale (Clarendon Prefs Series), 1. 302. 
 22 17 This word occurs in As You Like It, i., 2, 270, " from 
 the fmoke into the finother^' equivalent to our 
 " out of the frying-pan into the fire." 
 
 25 10 "Achan." — See Jofhua vii. 16-26. 
 13 "Corah's crew." — See Numbers xvi. 
 
 26 6 " humaine," mofl probably a mifprint for humane. — 
 
 See note to The Betraying of Chi'ifl, p. ^Z^ 1. 8. 
 17 "A friend in Hell," i.e., Dives. — See Luke xvi. 23. 
 
 27 9 "hifc romes," read his cromes, i.e., his crumbs. 
 29 9 " liket," read liked. 
 
 10 "In old times the ale-houfe windows were generally 
 open, fo that the company within might enjoy the 
 frefli air, and fee all that was going on in the fi.reet; 
 but as the fcenes within were not always fit to be 
 feen by the 'profanum vulgus' that paffed by, a 
 trellis was put up in the open windows. This trellis, 
 or lattice, was generally painted red." — Hiflory 
 of Signboards, 1S66, p. 375. The term became 
 equivalent to ale-houfe or inn. Thus, Marflon: 
 " As well known by my wit as an ale-hotife by a 
 red lattice.'' — Antonio and Mellida, 1633. "A 
 whole flreet is in fome places but a continuous 
 alehoufe, not a (hop to be feen between red-lattice 
 and red-lattice''' — Dekker, Englifli Villanies, &c., 
 
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 Notes. 
 
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 1638. There was a Green-Lattice in Brownlow 
 Street, Holborn, corrupted into " Green-Lettuce." 
 
 32 16 See note to Looke to If, &c., p. 27, 1. 12. 
 
 33 16 " with-thefe," read " with thefe." For a long account 
 
 of this fwindle, fee Dekker's EjigliJJi Villanies, 
 
 1632, fign. H. 
 36 2 See note to Knave of Harts, p. 20, 1. 12, 
 38 II Note the accent on the fecond fyllable of " Lucifer's." 
 lafl line. " Morbus Gallicus," the venereal difeafe, 
 
 40 9 "Robin." — See Halliwell, f v. There was a ballad 
 
 entitled, "The merrie prankes of Robin Good- 
 fellow," printed in Percy's Reliques. 
 
 41 6 '-Rohin," read -'Robin." 
 
 42 I In the Ancren Riwle (Camden Society, ed. Morton), 
 
 pp. 198, 204, each of the deadly fins is reprefented 
 by an animal: thus we have (i) the lion of Pride, 
 (2) the hedder (adder) of Envy, (3) the unicorn 
 of Wrath, (4) the fcorpion of Lechery, (5) the fox 
 of Avarice, (6) the fow of Gluttony, and (7) the 
 bear of Sloth. — See alfo Prof. Skeat's note to 
 P. Plowman, C. text, vii. i. 
 
 XVIIL— SIR THOMAS OVERBURY [1614]. 
 
 The only copy known is in the Colledlion of the Society of 
 Antiquaries, London, and will be found printed with the Mifcel- 
 laneous Poems. 
 
 XIX.— A FOOLES BOLT IS SOONE SHOTT, 1614.* 
 
 3 4 In the Proverbs of Hendyng, we find — 
 
 " Sottes bolt is fone fliote, quoth Hendyng." 
 
 See Hazlitt's Proverbs, &c., p. 11, and Shakfpere, 
 
 * Thefe Notes are from the pen of Profeffor Skeat, of Cambridge, who 
 kindly fuperintended the Club's reprint of "A Fooles Bolt " as it paffed 
 through the prefs. A few have been fupplied by Mr. Herrtage, but thefe are 
 dillinguithed by having the letter H. attached to them. 
 
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 Notes. 
 
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 As you Like It, A61 v., fc 4, 1. 60 j and Henry V., 
 A6t iii., fc. 7, 132. — H. 
 
 4 2 "Whofe Hues according to their Do6lrine fhines." 
 
 The falfe concord here is common in all Eliza- 
 bethan authors, Shakfpere included. The fimple, 
 yet true, explanation of it has been com- 
 pletely overlooked by almofl every writer, ex- 
 cepting only Mr. Aldis Wright, whofe comments 
 upon it, in his edition of Bacon's Advancement of 
 Learning, p. 293, fhould be confulted. The 
 " concord " is, in fa6l, one which appeals to the 
 ear, not to the reafon; the verb agrees with the 
 nearejl fubftantive, which in this cafe is the word 
 DoBrine. 
 5 "lip-labour." This word occurs alfo in Gafcoigne's 
 Steel Glas, 1. 857— 
 
 " My priefls haue learnt to pray vnto the Lord, 
 And yet they truft not in their lyplahour." 
 
 5 9 See Book of Eflher. — H. 
 
 1 1 The word " a " has evidently been dropped at prefs; we 
 
 fliould read — 
 
 " Or cittie Diues, in a Pui-ple Roabe." 
 
 15 The paufe after " bafe " feems to fupply the place of a 
 fyllable. The line is fomewhat too fhort. 
 
 6 18 The rime requires '' mich " rather than " much." 
 
 7 9 Hebrews xiii. 14. — H. 
 
 8 6 The old copy has " gald," as printed. It clearly is a 
 
 mifprint for "glad." 
 
 12 "In a lufly cafe," i.e., in a flate of perfe6l health 
 
 and flrength. — H. 
 
 9 3 Original, "inflrna;" it fhould be "inllrua." 
 
 5 " Raymond," i.e., Raymond Lully, the " Do6lor 
 
 Illuminatus," born 1234, died 1315. 
 II See "The Hiflory of Friar Bacon," in Thoms's Old 
 EiigliJJi Romances. 
 See alfo The Melancholic Knight, p. 44. — H. 
 
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 Notes. 
 
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 9 13 Edward Kelly, an apothecary of Worcefter, the 
 affociate of the celebrated Dr. John Dee. — See 
 " The Life of Dee " in the EngliJJi Encyclo- 
 pcedia. 
 20 "All is mifl," i.e., all is lofL; a fort of pun upon 
 Alchemifl. 
 
 10 3 " Vayth,"' i.e., " in faith, I'll go up to London, and 
 
 feek fome honefl man; I will find her out," 
 &c. 
 " Chill," for " Ich will (I will), is a Southern Englifh 
 form. — See Shakfpere's ufe of it in King Lear, 
 A(5l iv.j fc. 6. 
 5 "A figure," i.e.., a horofcope. The conjun6lion of 
 Saturn and Mars, both malign planets, would 
 betoken great misfortune, according to the aflro- 
 logers. The countryman takes them to be names 
 of human beings and thieves. 
 
 8 " Taurus," in the double fenfe; either as the name of 
 
 a zodiacal fign, or as fimply a bull. 
 
 9 "Staryde,"fo in original. Clearly a mifprint for flrayde. 
 
 11 8 " Morroow," fo in original. 
 
 19 " All his care," i.e., the thing he mofl cared for. 
 
 12 3 "Chriftide Spring," /.^., fp ring at Chrifl-tide or Eafter- 
 
 tide, as at p. 38. 
 4 Original, "wandrous," read wondrous. 
 
 13 Original, "rian'd," probably a mere mifprint for rain'd 
 
 rather than an attempt at reprefenting a peculiar 
 pronunciation. 
 
 14 " By," z>., with refpedl to, as regards. 
 
 17 No flop is wanted after "wretches;" " quoyle," is for 
 coil ; To " keep a coil," is to keep making com- 
 plaints, to make trouble. 
 
 13 9 The line is awkwardly expreffed, but the meaning 
 
 feems clear: "grown artful in giving thee gifts, 
 becaufe," &c.— H. 
 
 14 14 " more then needes," more than is neceffary. 
 
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 Notes. 
 
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 15 4 "beholding," i.e., beholden. It is intentional, not a 
 
 mifprint. The two forms were confufed in our 
 
 old fpeech. 
 
 1 1 '* Engine," a machine, an inflrument. It alludes to 
 
 the old form of the gallows or ''triple tree," fhaped 
 
 like a horizontal equilateral triangle fupported 
 
 upon polls at each angle. The " Arrow '"' is a 
 
 pleafant name for the rope, the engine or gallows 
 
 being the bow; obferve alfo the allufion to hanging 
 
 "in fufpence." The allufion to Taurus is only 
 
 to be explained by remembering that, in the old 
 
 aflrology, the prefence of the fun in any fpecified 
 
 fign affe6led a correfponding part of the body. 
 
 Thus the fun in Aries affe<5led the head, but in 
 
 Taurus it affecled the neck. " Aries hath thin 
 
 heued, and Taurus thy nekke and thy throte," 
 
 fays Chaucer. — See his Treatifc on the AJlrolabe, 
 
 ed. Skeat (Early EngHfh Text Society), p. 13. 
 
 Shakfpere intentionally makes Sir Toby and 
 
 Sir Andrew blunder about it when he writes — 
 
 " Taurus? that's fides and heart. No, fir, it's legs 
 and \\\\^%:'~T%velfth Night, A(5l i., fc. 3. 
 
 16 I " fprit," pronounced fprite, and meaning fpirit. 
 
 7 " defert," pronounced defart. 
 
 8 Original, "Wert but it;" a mifprint for Were it but. 
 
 The line means: Were it but in Cheapfide 
 market, and he preached from a peafe-cart. 
 10 " Hacket," i.e., not John Racket, bifhop of Lichfield, 
 who was not born till 1592, but William Hacket, 
 a fanatic, who died in that fame year. 
 
 15 "Organs." The old word for organ is invariably 
 
 either organs or a pair of organs. 
 
 16 r Samuel xvi. 23. — H. 
 
 20 " Bitle-browed," beetle-browed, having beetling or far 
 projeding eyebrows. The Avord occurs in Piers 
 the Plowman, B. v. 190. 
 
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 Notes. 
 
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 17 5 " Chaue," for " ich haue," a Southern-Englifh form of 
 "I have." — See note above, to p. 10, 1. 4 So 
 alfo, three lines lower, we have "cham" for "ich 
 
 am." 
 
 11 A fyllable is miffing. Read : " And / durft ene," &c. 
 
 12 "Planakle." It is not clear that this is meant for a 
 
 real v/ord. The worthy man probably means that 
 his dog was "planet-flruck.'' 
 
 18 i^ Read: "as fharp as needle witted," followed by a 
 
 mark of parenthefis, which, however, is not in the 
 original. 
 
 21 Read: "We fliall, i^c fare, ^y little," i.e., we fhall be 
 
 fure to take enough, as regards little men, or big 
 men, or tall men. 
 26 i.e., '• I have learnt my trade already, pray free me from 
 my apprenticefhip." 
 
 19 I The Spanifli Armada. — H. 
 
 13 Original, "where," an obvious error for "were." 
 
 14 Read: " out-ragious, foming deep." The original has 
 
 the hyphen mifplaced, as printed. 
 19 "From Mendoza," i.e., inflead of Mendoza. 
 
 20 3 Will Somers, jefler to King Henry VIII. — See the ac- 
 
 count of him, with portrait, in Chambers's Book 
 of Days. 
 6 "Yea, even though it were King Henry, he cared juft 
 
 as Httle." 
 17 " Nitty," is a fynonym for "' loufy." " Nitigram " feems 
 an invented word, inflead of anagram or epigram. 
 
 22 i.e., " till the nibs of the pen flride apart, like a pair of 
 
 compaffes." 
 
 2 1 lafl line. " clyming," i.e., climbing up the ladder to the gallows. 
 
 24 II "Plunged" is a diffyllable; "through" is, I fufpedl, a 
 
 mifprint for thorough. 
 
 25 II "thurfl;" fo in original; read thrufl. 
 
 28 20 i.e., And taught them to know faints' pi6lures in the 
 church-windows. 
 
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 Notes. 
 
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 29 headline." T'aws;" fo in original; read 'Tvvas. 
 
 1 Original, "aflary;" read aflray. 
 
 7 Original, " ouerthow ;" read ouerthrow. 
 
 30 16 Original, " competent;" read competent. 
 17 Original, "konwne;" read knowne. 
 
 31 I A fimilar tale is told in the Gejla Romanorum^ ch. 53, 
 
 of an old woman, who, when all the people of Syra- 
 cufe prayed for the death of Dionyfius, the tyrant, 
 every morning entreated the gods to continue his 
 life beyond hers; her reafon for fo doing being the 
 fame as in the prefent text. The tale is narrated 
 in Valerius Maximus, the Hiftorian, lib. vi., cap. 2. 
 It alfo occurs amongfl fome tranflated Dutch 
 fables, by De Witt, under the title of A Womafi 
 praying for the long life of Diotiyfius the Tyrarit. 
 The fentiment is the fame as Shakfpere's — 
 
 ' ' And makes us rather Ijear thofe ills we have, 
 Than fly to others that we know not of." 
 
 Hamlet^ Adl iii., fc. i. 
 
 Mr. Douce, in his Illuflrations of Shakfpere, ii. 541, 
 quotes a verfion of this tale from an MS. of the 
 reign of Henry III. — H. 
 
 2 Original, "Lndlords;" read Landlords. 
 
 II Original, "cra'ud;" read crau'd, i.e., craved. 
 17 Original, '*t's;" read 'tis. 
 33 17 Original, '■ heats with ioye receiue." Doubly wrong; 
 read hearts with ioye reuiue. 
 
 35 laflline. It means: There was no more grace (or pardon) for 
 
 him than there was for thofe who are in the 
 fituation of devils. 
 
 36 17 Original, '^abrod;'' read abroad. 
 
 37 laflline. A word (perhaps wench) feems wanted after common. 
 
 The dalh flands for pox. 
 
 38 24 'Moue deafe," i.e., deaf to love. 
 
 39 7 '•' Mony," i.e., fill with money. 
 
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 Notes. 
 
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 39 i6 '-'Preuent her Avith the fame," i.e., anticipate her by 
 giving it to her, before flie afks for it. — H. 
 lo The word "if" ought to come in before " fhe." 
 21 Original, "wife;" but read wife, i.e., wise. 
 
 XX.— THE MELANCHOLIE KNIGHT, 1615. 
 
 I Timon of Athens. 
 
 6 "iudious," read iuditious. — Compare p. 35, ]. 3. 
 1 2 The titles of Early Englifh Romances. Sir Lancelot of 
 the Laik,\\z.% been edited for the Early EngHfh Text 
 Society, by Prof. Skeat; Sir Triamour, edited by 
 Sir W. Scott, and alfo Mr. Halliwell for the Percy 
 Society; Sir Beiiis of Southampton, now being 
 edited for the Early Englifli Text Society ; Sir Guy 
 of Warivick, edited for the Early Englifli Text 
 Society by Prof. Zupitza. — For the lafl fee alfo 
 Rowlands' verfion. Thefe Romances ufed to be 
 recited by Minflrels at feafts and feflivals. Thus, 
 William of Naffmgton, in the prologue to his 
 Mirrour of Life, fays : — 
 
 " I wille make na vaine karpinge 
 Of dedes of armys ne of amours, 
 As dus myiiflrelks s.n6. jejlours , 
 That makys carpinge in many a place 
 Of Oclaviatte and Ifetnhrafe, 
 And of many other jeftes. 
 
 And namely [efpecially] whan they come to fefles ; 
 Ne of the life oi Bevys of Hamtoiin, 
 That was a knight of gret renoun, 
 Ne oiSir Gye of Warzoyke &c." 
 
 From Mr. Cofens' MS. 
 
 TO See note to Humour's Looking-glaffe, p. 6, 1. 2. 
 18 '' Prefler John^' the name of a fabulous king of India. 
 See Mau7ideviIUs Travels, ed. Halliwell. 
 
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 Notes. 
 
 FACE LINE 
 
 lo i6 Compare Loves Labour's Lojl, A61: i., fc. 2, 114; "Is 
 
 their not a ballad, boy, of the King and the 
 
 Beggar?" and Richard IL., A(5t v., fc. 3, 80 — 
 
 ' ' Our fcene is altered from a ferious thing, 
 And now changed to * The Beggar and the King. ' " 
 
 The ballad alluded to is that of King Cophetua, 
 printed in Percy's Reliques^ from Richard Johnfon's 
 Crown Garla7id of Goidden Rofes, 161 2, where it 
 is entitled "A Song of a Beggar and a King.'' 
 ri 10 "Before I croffe his booke," z>., before I pay money 
 for any debt. 
 15 " Hungarians'^ a cant term, originally a hungry perfon, 
 generally a rafcal, villain. 
 
 12 iS '' Angellical," of Angels, i.e., coins, money. 
 
 13 I ''Littleton;' the editor of " Coke." 
 
 14 12 Compare More Knaves Yet, p. 3, 1. 11. 
 
 15 14 '^a charge of poore," i.e., the expenfe of keeping the 
 
 poore. 
 
 16 3 ''a table," a tablet with infcribed. verfes. — See alfo 
 
 Tuffer, who gives, p. 190, "Hufbandly Pofies, 
 [poetical infcriptions] for the hall.'' 
 19 5 So Tuffer : " To buy atthejiub, is the bell for the buier," 
 ch. 35, ft. 9. The meaning appears to be: '•' that 
 pays ready money on the fpot or at the time." 
 
 23 12 " Kninghts," read Knights. 
 
 24 II "to finde at large," i.e., to receive back with intereft. 
 
 25 16 "for being ouer proud,'"' for fear of their becoming, or 
 
 to prevent their becoming, over proud. — See note 
 to A Terrible Battell, p. 24, 1. 10. 
 The legend, as narrated by Robert de Brunne in his 
 Chronicle, is, that, by the advice of Merlin, the 
 ftones which are now at Stonehenge were fetched 
 from Ireland by King Arthur, and fet up in their 
 prefent pofition. — See his Chronicle, ed. Furnivall, 
 (Rolls feries), p. 312. On Merlifi's Birth, &c., 
 fee ibid., p. 283. 
 
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 29 3 He kept me fupplied with new. 
 
 33 9 Sir E glamour hzs, been edited for the Camden Society, 
 by Mr. Halliwell, from the Thornton MS. The 
 accomit of his fight with the boar, is given at 
 flanza xxxiv. 
 
 id 5 "pearle," a pet name for a dog. — See Letting of Hum- 
 our s Blood, p. 39. 
 
 41 17 "being yet vnbegotten," i.e.., being a thing which is 
 not yet in exiflence. 
 
 43 5 " lyes by," i.e., which is laid by. 
 
 1 7 " Bias BriencBUs, one of the feuen wife men of Greece, 
 beholdyng his countrey taken by enemies, fled; 
 other men cariyng with them fuche gooddes as 
 they mought beare, he was demaunded why he 
 tooke nothyng with him; whereto he anfwered, 
 ' Truely I carie all my gooddes with me :' meanyng 
 vertue and dodlryne, reputing the gooddes of for- 
 tune none of his." — Cooper's Thefaurus, 1584. 
 
 44 I " The Fryer," &c., Friar Bacon.— See A Fooles Bolt, 
 
 &c., p. 9, 1. II, and Himiours Looking Glaffe, 
 p. 6, 1. 7. 
 
 XXL— THE BRIDE [1617?]. 
 Not now known to exifl. — See Bibliographical Index, p. 36. 
 
 XXII.— A SACRED MEMORIE, &c., 1618. 
 
 " Contra6ls." Notice the accent on the laft fyllable. 
 Galatians i. 9. 
 
 " Cloud checking," fo high as to reach into the clouds, 
 and fo flop their courfe. 
 16 12 The accent is always in this poem on the third fyllable 
 of Capernaum. 
 21 "thy onely breath," i.e., a fimple breath, or word of 
 thine. 
 
 
 
 25 
 
 10 
 
 18 
 
 15 
 
 6 
 
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 19 
 
 3 
 
 24 
 
 28 
 
 Notes, 
 
 '* fuing for his abfence, ' i.e., requefling him to depart. 
 This is a curious ufe of the word "to containe;" 
 perhaps the Une means, " Of broken meat fo 
 great as to require twelve bafkets to contain it." 
 
 28 25 " denominate." It is evident from the hiflory of 
 Englilh verbs \x\-ate that the participle preceded 
 the verb in adoption into the language. The 
 introduction of the final d into the Englifli par- 
 ticiples of thefe verbs came after the formation 
 of the Englifli verb. Thus in Shakfpere we find 
 '' fruflrate," Tempejl, A61 iii., fc. 3; " exafperate," 
 Macbeth, A61 iii., fc. 6, 38; " confecrate," " dedi- 
 cate," &c. See alfo Good Nerves and Bad Newes, 
 p. 7, 1. 9. 
 
 37 4 " their latefl tooken paine," i.e., whofe taking from 
 them was their latefl grief. 
 
 42 15 " yeflerday at feuen." The original is, " Yefterday 
 at thefeventh hour," which is one o'clock p.m. 
 
 44 6 "■ he wanteth fight," is deprived of, or is without fight. 
 
 49 2 " thofe glorious Lampes [v/hich] adorne the fl<ie." 
 The omiffion of the relative has already been 
 pointed out as common in Shakfpere and the 
 other Elizabethan writers. 
 
 XXIII.— THE NIGHT RAVEN, 1620. 
 
 4 Compare Tuffer, ch. 49, ft, 9 — 
 
 " If gentils be fcrauling call Magget the py." 
 And Shakfpere, Macbeth Act iii., fc. 4, 125 — 
 " By Maggot pies and choughs and rooks." 
 13 In 1588 Elizabeth held a review of her troops, pre- 
 pared to refill the invafion of the Spaniards in 
 the Armada, at Tilbury Fort in Effex. 
 20 Thus defcribed by Blount: "The round hem or the 
 feveral divifions fet together about the n<irt of a 
 
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 Notes. 
 
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 garment or other thing; alfo, a kind of fliff collar 
 made in fafliion of a band. That famous ordinary 
 near St. James' called Pickadilly took denomi- 
 nation from, this that one Higgins, a taylor, who 
 built it, got moft of his eilate by piccadilles, which 
 in the lafl age were much in fafhion." — Glojfa- 
 grap/iia, 1681, p. 495. Minflieu defcribes it as 
 " a peece faftened about the top of the coller of 
 a doublet;" and Cotgrave as " the feverall divifions 
 or peeces faflened together about the brimme of 
 the collar of a doublet." The "piccadel" or 
 '' pickadilly " was made fo as to be taken off at 
 the will of the wearer. 
 9 18 "When I fhould had," &c., le., when I fliould have 
 been able to have fliown it at Court in May. 
 22 "with, Jiothing for the making^' i.e., by paying no- 
 thing, &c. 
 10 I A "roaring-boy" was a proflitute's bully. 
 
 13 I "Paris Garden is the place on the Thames bank-fide 
 
 at London where the bears are kept and baited; 
 and was anciently fo called from Robert de Paris, 
 who had a houfe and garden there in Richard 
 the Second's time : who by proclamation ordained 
 that the butchers of London fliould buy that 
 garden for receipt of their garbage and entrails of 
 beafls; to the end the city might not be annoyed 
 thereby." — Blount's Glojfographia, 1 681, p. 473; 
 fee Halliwell, f.v. 
 16 " Arion, a famous harper, whom y'^ mariners would 
 have cafl into the fea to have his money : but he 
 defiring them to lette hym playe a fonge on his 
 harpe er he died, after warde leapte into the 
 water, and a Dolphyne receiving him on his 
 back, brought hym to lande alyve." — Cooper's 
 Thefaurus, 1584. 
 
 14 I Compare Tuffer's After Supper Matters, p. 179. 
 
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 Notes. 
 
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 i6 4 A fyllable is wanting; read " feeme to heare." 
 
 26 13 " Weaners," read weauers. 
 
 27 I This proverb occurs in the Gejla Romanorum, 1440, 
 
 ed. Herrtage, Tale No. 4, as " of two evelis the 
 leffe evill is to be chofyn;" and again, "if too 
 ivelis wer comaundid, the leffe were to be 
 chof)aie." In the original Latin it is, '^ De duobis 
 malis maj'us vialum ejl vitandwn.^'' 
 18 ^'■Hamlet Reuengc." In Henflowe's Diary, under 
 the date 9 June, 1594, is mentioned the per- 
 formance of a play " Hamlet " at the Newington 
 Theatre. Lodge, in his Wiis Miferie and the 
 World's Madneffe, printed in 1596, thus defcribes 
 the fiend Hate-Virtue : " He walks for the mofl 
 part in black vnder colour of grauity, and looks 
 as pale as the Vifard of y*" ghoft which cried fo 
 miferably at y*" Theator like an oiiler wife 'Hamlet, 
 reuenge.' " In the Regillers of the Stationers' 
 Company is an entry, under the date of 26 
 July, 1602, made by James Roberts, the printer, 
 of "A booke. The Revenge of Hamlett, prince 
 of Denmarke, as y* latelie was adled by the Lord 
 Chamberlayn his fervantes." Shakfpere's play 
 appeared in the following year. 
 
 28 17 ''■ Firamus and Thifby.^'' — See Chaucer's Legend of 
 
 Good Women. The flory is told in Ovid's 
 Metamorphofis, iv. 55-166, See Shakfpere's 
 Merchant of Venice, v. i, 7. 
 
 32 I This is the Miller's Tale of Chaucer. 
 
 33 16 "From (Day's Broke) him who claims them becaufe 
 
 the day has been broken," i.e., money has not 
 been paid on the appointed day, 
 
 XXIV.— A PAIRE OF SPY-KNAVES [1620?] 
 
 2 10 " put vp," i.e., put up with, fubmit to. 
 
 K 
 
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 LINI 
 
 5 
 
 12 
 
 
 17 
 
 6 
 
 2 
 
 7 
 
 20 
 
 Notes. 
 
 " Beuis," Sir Bevis of Hampton. — See The Melancholie 
 
 Knight, p. 8, 1. 12. 
 See as above. 
 
 " Samen," probably examine. 
 Compare Chaucer's y7/<?/'r//fl'«/' J Ti?/?, in which an oldman 
 
 calledyfl!?z//^;j marries a young wife named May. 
 26 %QQEeHgmceAnitqz{ce,\. 20"]. The French fay : "lecoeur 
 
 ne veut douloir ce que I'oeil ne pent A^eoir." 
 
 8 On how the young men of the time paffed their days, 
 
 compare Letting of Hzimoitr^s Blood, p. 1 3 ; and 
 Stubbes' Anatomic of Abufes, p. 62; and Mr. 
 Furnivall's note at p. 252. 
 
 9 I Another form of the Proverb is : " As wife as a man 
 
 of Gotham." — See HazHtt's Proverbs, &c., p. 75, 
 and compare the nurfery rhyme, ''Three wife 
 men of Gotham," &c. 
 12 9 Compare Shakfpere, Pericles, i. 3, 42 — 
 
 ' ' None that beheld him, but, like leffer lights, 
 Did vail their crowns to his fupremacy." 
 
 15 4 Cotgrave has f.v. Bon, ^'Bon guet chaffe malaventure." 
 Proverbs: "good watch preuents miffortune; fafl 
 bind, fafl find, fay Ave." The fame proverb is 
 given in Florio's Second Friites, 1591, p. 15. — Com- 
 pare Merchant of Venice, ii. 5, 53 — 
 " Fafl bind, fail find, 
 A proverb never flale in thrifty mind." 
 
 15 22 Compare with this, Chaucer, Perfones Tale, De Ira: 
 " For Crifles fake fwere not fo finnefuUy, in dif- 
 membring of Crifl, by foule, herte, bones, and 
 body; for certes it femeth, that ye thinken that 
 the curfed Jewes difmembred him not ynough, but 
 ye difjiembre him more." And again in the Par- 
 doner's Tale, 1. 472, he fays — 
 
 * ' Her othes ben fo grete and fo dampnable, 
 That it is grifly for to here hem fwere, 
 Our bliffed lordes body they to tere; 
 Hem thoughte Jewes rente him nought ynongh." 
 
 74
 
 Notes. 
 
 PAGE LINK 
 
 See alfo Ibid.^ 11. 650-654. Profeffor Skeat in 
 his note adds: — "In the Vifion of William 
 Staunton, 1409, printed in Wright's St. Patrick's 
 Purgatory, p. 146, we read: 'And than Saint 
 Johan feid — Thefe [who are thus tormented in 
 hell] ben thci that fweren bi Goddes menibris, as 
 hi his naylcs and other his membris, and thei thus 
 difmembrid God in horrible fwerynge bi his 
 limmes.' In the PloivmaiUs Tale, we have — 
 
 ' And Crijlcs memhres al to iere 
 On roode as he were newe of rente. ' 
 
 Barclay, in his Ship of Fools, ed. Jamiefon, i. 96, 
 fays — 
 
 ' Some fwereth armys nayles herte and body. 
 Terynge our lord work, than the Joweshym arayed.' 
 
 See alfo Ibid., ii. 130. Todd, in his IlhiJlratio7is 
 of Chancer, p. 264, quotes (from an old MS.) the 
 fecond Commandment as follows — 
 
 II. ' Thi goddes name and beautte 
 
 Thou llialt not take for wel nor wo : 
 Difi)iemhre hytn not that on rode-tre 
 For the was boyth blak and bio.' " 
 
 See alfo the Gefla Roma?iormn, Tale No, Ixxxviii., 
 
 p. 410, 1. 23, and my note. 
 16 5 "If the to life," read if to the life. 
 19 27 I will give no longer credit. 
 
 XXV.— GOOD NEWES AND BAD NEWES, 1622. 
 
 4 1 Will. Somers, the celebrated Court Jefler of Henry VIII. 
 
 6 16 '' Father of lies," '^dhnvm. 4^. 
 
 79'' confummate." — See note on A Sacred Memorie, &c., 
 
 p. 28, 1. 25. 
 9 12 "ten i' th' Hundred," a cant term for ufury, fuch 
 
 being formerly the ufual rate of interefl. 
 10 2 And thou fhalt have wine, and interefl to boot. 
 
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 Notes. 
 
 I'AGE LINE 
 
 11 6 The meaning is : " Oh ! that I had a number fuch 
 
 farms to difpofe of in the fame manner." 
 
 12 20 " Edmund Plowden was an eminent common lawyer 
 
 in EHzabeth's reign, born at Plowden, in Shrop- 
 fhire, of whom Camden (in his Elizabeth, ann: 
 1584) gives this characfler: Vitae integritate inter 
 homines fuos profeffionis nuUi fecundus. And Sir 
 Ed. Coke calls him the Oracle of the Common 
 Law. . . . Plowden being a Roman Catholic, 
 fome neighbours of his who bore him no good 
 will, intending to entrap him, and bring him under 
 the lafh of the law, had taken care to drefs up an 
 altar in a certain place, and provided a layman in 
 a priefl's habit, who fhould fay mafs at fuch a 
 time. And withal, notice thereof was given pri- 
 vately to Mr. Plowden, who thereupon went and 
 was prefent at the mafs. For this he was prefently 
 accufed and indi6led. He at firfl flands upon his 
 defence, and would not acknowledge the thing. 
 Witneffes are produced, and, among the reft, one 
 who depofed that he himfelf performed the mafs, 
 and faw Mr. Plowden there. Saith Plowden to 
 him. Art thou a prieft, then? The fellow replied, 
 No. Why then, gentlemen (quoth he), the cafe 
 is altered; no prieft, no mafs; which came to be 
 a proverb, and continues ftill in Shropftiire, with 
 this addition: The cafe is altered (quoth Plow- 
 den), no prieft, no mafs." — From Ray's Proverbs. 
 
 13 20 " God blejfe you Mqfter^'' &c., i.e., begging and addreff- 
 
 ing perfons with God blefs you, majler, will bring 
 
 in more to-morrow. 
 15 15 "Buyes pen-worths," &c., buys fmall quantities, better 
 
 than any that had been feen for the laft feven years. 
 18 12 " But [after] two weekes [had] paft, &c. 
 26 10,11 Alludingtothe"Counters"or debtors' prifons in Wood 
 
 Street and the Poultry. — See alfo p. 40, 11. 17, 18. 
 
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 Notes. 
 
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 28 16 "Whan theeues fall out, true men come to their goode. 
 
 Whiche is not alwaie true. For in all that bretche, 
 I care no ferthing of my good the more fetche. " 
 
 Heywood, 
 
 The mediseval Latin line feeras to be equivalent — 
 " Fures in lite pandunt abfcondita vitre." 
 
 A tra6l of Robert Greene's, publifhed, according 
 to Mr. Hazlitt, before 1592, had as its title— 
 "Thieves falling out, true men come to their goods." 
 
 40 18 See p. 26, 1. 13, and Gloffary. 
 
 43 20 " the foxe under your arme;" to fox, was to make tipfy, 
 
 and to be foxed, meant to be drunk; hence, the 
 meaning feems to be: "I only fhoot at the drink 
 or drunkard under your arm." 
 
 44 10 " Paris Garden." — See note to the Night Raven, p. 13, 
 
 1. I. 
 
 XXVI.— HEAVEN'S GLORY, &c., 1628. 
 
 2 17 " The pale memory of death," i.e., the memory of pale 
 death. — See note to The Betraying of Chrift, &c., 
 p. 24, 1. 23. 
 
 8 20 " thnke," read " thinke." 
 
 9 10 "be thought of due difcretion," i.e., have in his mind 
 
 due care. 
 10 6 " being fo dangerous affaulted," &c., // being fo dan- 
 geroufly, &c. 
 
 13 15 "Renounce his league, intends thy vtter loffe," i.e., 
 
 friendfhip with him who plots thy utter lofs. 
 
 14 4 Againfl a Chriflian Knight armed with Faith, which is 
 
 proof againfl all affaults. 
 12 " difanimate," difcouraged, difheartened. — See note 
 to A Sacred Memorie, &c., p. 28, 1. 25. 
 
 15 14 The heart-torn wretch, who is defpair itfelf. 
 
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 16 14 Notice the accent on the fecond fyllable of " perfeuer," 
 as in King Lear, iii, 5, 18; As You Like It, v. 2, 
 3; and King John ii. i, 421. 
 
 Revelation vii. 17 and xxi. 4. 
 
 Matthew vi. 20. 
 
 Revelation xxi. 
 
 " that knoweth on death," read no death. 
 
 Revelation xxii. 5. 
 
 Compare the verfes in the Te Deum. 
 
 Ifaiah xxxv. 7, 9. 
 
 " fumptuons," read fumptuous. 
 
 The proper form of this word {burial) is burials, 
 from the Anglo-Saxon byrgels, a tomb. Wyclif 
 fuppofed this to be a plural form, and invented 
 the incorre6l buriel, which he ufes in Mark vi. 29, 
 and blriel in Matthew xxvii. 60. — See examples 
 in Stratmann's Old EngliJJi Di6lionary. In 
 P. Plowman, B. xix. 142, the Jews are faid to 
 have watched the tomb of our Lord, becaufe it 
 had been foretold that — 
 
 " That bleffed body oiburieles fliulde rife." 
 
 In the Man of Lawes Tale, 186, we find, " Seintes 
 
 buriels," i.e., burial places of the faints. 
 68 7 " Nicolas of Antioch." — See Afts vi. 5, and Revelation 
 
 ii. 6, 15. 
 For every thought, though not expreffed in words. 
 Pfalm cxxxvii. 6. 
 " Inmate wife," as an inmate. 
 "Who dies before he dies," &c., i.e., he who dies to 
 
 the world, &c,, before he departs this life Ihall 
 
 neuer die. 
 i8 '* to more than nature can," i.e., to an extent beyond 
 
 the powers of nature. 
 
 86 14 " Eridan," Eridanus, the Po, 
 
 87 9 Pfalm xUi. i. 
 
 79 
 
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 Notes, 
 
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 97 19 "Whitfun Ale," a feftival held at Whitfuntide, Rill 
 kept up in fome parts of the countrj'. — See the 
 lift, of "Ales" in Harrifon's Defcriptioji ofEnglatid, 
 ed. Furnivall, i. 32. 
 
 266 7 And they were themfelvcs deftioyed, &c. 
 
 XXVIL— GUY, EARL OF WARWICK, 1682. 
 
 13 The wandering excited ftate of Guy's mind is here well 
 
 expreffed by the flrange manner in which the 
 names of fo many mythological perfons are mixed 
 up, 
 15 As this line is printed, we Ihould have to accent Orpheus 
 on the penultimate, making it a trifyllable. 
 
 14 4 " foce," read foes. 
 
 5 "Morpheus," Morpheus, god of fleep. 
 7 " pierceh," read pierceth. 
 17 21 -'Cenfure me fudden," give fpeedy judgment in my 
 cafe. 
 
 19 2 "Alniain," German. 
 
 20 35 "■ Lent him fuch a ftroke." The ufual term in the old 
 
 Romances, from Anglo-Saxon lanath to lend, give. 
 See alfo p. ^fi, 1. 21. 
 24 7 "the nine days wonder." A trad; was publifhed by 
 Kemp in 1600, with this title. — See Hazlitt's 
 Handbook of EngliJJi Literature. It has been re- 
 printed for the Camden Society. 
 
 " Bellona," the Goddefs of War. 
 
 " hot fear," read not fear. 
 
 " And's life in queftion," />., and his life was in danger. 
 
 The adverbial termination " meal " is from the Anglo- 
 Saxon mcshim, the dative of mcel, a part, ufed ad- 
 verbially, both alone and in compofition. Thus, 
 we find ^^Wxah-meal" in Shakfpere, Cymleline, ii. 
 4, 147— 
 
 " O that I had her here, to tear her limb-meal ! " 
 
 27 
 
 5 
 
 28 
 
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 29 
 
 14 
 
 30 
 
 12 
 
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 Notes. 
 
 I'AGK LINK 
 
 and in the Tempeji, ii. 2, 3, we have: "by inch- 
 meal." In the Wycliffite verfion of Wifdovi^ xviii. 
 25, occurs " ripyll-melum," i.e.^ in heaps. 
 
 31 I "Millain," Milan. 
 
 39 19 The accent is on the fecond fyllable of blafphemous, 
 in accordance with its derivation. 
 
 42 26 "makes him light," &c., caufes him to difmount in 
 order to protecSl himfelf. 
 30 " Androdus," read "Androclus." Thefloryof Androclus 
 is told by Aulus Gelleus, No6les Attica;, lib. 5, 
 cap. xiv., on the authority of a Greek writer, one 
 Appion, called Pliflonices, who pretends to have 
 been an eye-witnefs of the extraordinary occur- 
 rence. Compare alfo the verfion in my edition 
 of the Gejia Romanorum, Early Englifh Text 
 Society, 1879, p. 327. 
 
 46 lafl line. •'•' deflation," read deteflation, as required by the metre. 
 
 47 30 Perillus was a celebrated manufa6lurer of brazen 
 
 images, and conflrudled for Phalaris, tyrant of 
 Agrigentum, a brazen bull, in which thofe fen- 
 tenced to death fliould be roafted alive, the idea 
 being that their cries fhould reprefent the roaring 
 of a bull. Phalaris highly applauded the in- 
 vention, and immediately proceeded to try its 
 effedls on its inventor — 
 
 ' ' Neque enim lex sequior uUa 
 Quam necis artifices arte perire fuu." 
 
 Ovid, De Arte Amandi, i. 11. 655-6. 
 36 " In that occafion," &c., fmce the opportunity, &c. 
 
 51 10 " Dianert," Deianira. 
 
 52 19 "Command me fome diredlion," i.e.^ order that I re- 
 
 ceive fome information as to where he is to be 
 found; or, order fome guides to direct me to 
 where he is. 
 54 25 " the only Linguifl living," the only means of fpreading 
 information at that time. 
 
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 Notes. 
 
 PAGIC LINE 
 
 57 25 " Nunquam fera," read fero. 
 
 59 2 Sir W. Scott, in his note to Marmion, i. 23, 27, thus 
 
 diflinguiflies between a Pilgrim and a Palmer: 
 " A Palmer^ as oppofed to a Pilgrim, was one 
 who made it his fole bufinefs to vifit different 
 holy flirines : travelUng inceffantly, and fubfifting 
 wholly by chanty : whereas the Pilgrim retired to 
 his ufual home and occupations when he had paid 
 his devotions at the particular fpot which was the 
 obje6l of his pilgrimage." Mr. Cutts, in his 
 Scenes and CharaBers of the Middle Ages, p. 167, 
 fays: "When the Pilgrim reached the Holy Land, 
 and had vifited the ufual round of the holy places, 
 he became entitled to wear the palm in token of 
 his accomplifliment of that great pilgrimage; and 
 from that badge he derived the name of palmer." 
 Camden (Remains) fays: "As Palmer, that is, 
 Pilgrime, for that they carried palrne when they 
 came from Jerufalem." The "Palmer's weed" 
 is a common expreffion in the old romances. 
 King Horn, when difguifed in " palmer's weeds," 
 carried a burdon (flaff) and 2ifcrippe. — See King 
 Horn, ed. Lumby, 1. 1061. On the Signs of 
 Pilgrims and Palmers, fee Chambers's Book of 
 Days, i. 338, and Cutts' Scenes and Chara^ers, 
 p. 167. The fcallop fliell was the fign of having 
 performed a pilgrimage to Compoftella, the fhrine 
 of St. James, and was worn in the hat. Thus, in 
 the Prologue to The Tale of Beryn, ed. Furnivall, 
 we are told of the Canterbury Pilgrims, that 
 "they fet their fignys upon their hedes, and fome 
 oppon their cappe." — See P. Ploimnan, C. viii. 
 165, and Prof Skeat's exhauflive note on it. 
 
 60 32 We llill ufe the phrafe "a dufled coat" for a thrafhing. 
 62 6 " forced bulk," perhaps, laden (^rr(?^, fluffed) bulk. 
 
 36 All's fair in war. 
 
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 Notes. 
 
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 26 
 
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 27 
 
 71 
 
 32 
 
 78 
 
 19 
 
 64 15 See note to Looke to it for He Jiabbe ye, p. 27, 1. 2. 
 26 "reafon with them," i.e., converfe, talk with them, 
 lafl line. " By which fad founds diredlion," i.e., dire6led or guided 
 by which fad founds. 
 66 lafl line. This certainly appears to be an allufion to Hamlet, v. i. 
 
 " Phiselce," read Phselice. 
 
 "charged eccho," the echo loaded or freighted with 
 the name. 
 
 " Ceres and Baccht/s,'' i.e., food and drink. 
 
 "Diana," fports, amufements, of the country. 
 
 " Hypficrata," the wife of Mithridates, Avho followed 
 him about in all his wars, being dreffed as a knight. 
 
 "A Friars cafe," in a friars drefs. 
 
 " Gogmagog," for an account of this duel fee Robert 
 de Brunne's Chronicle, Rolls feries, ed. Furnivall, 
 pp. 65, 66. 
 80 22 " A Prefident," ie., a precedent. The fame fpeUing 
 occurs in Shakfpere, Tempeji^ ii. i, and frequently 
 in the writers of the time. 
 
 This Romance of Sir Guy of War^vick, is found 
 in Latin in the Gefla Romanorum, ch. 172, differ- 
 ing but little from the above. Ellis, in his Metrical 
 Romances, ii. 5, has analyfed the Old Englifh 
 Romance, — See alfo Warton, Hiflory of Englijh 
 Poetry, and Percy's Reliques of Ancient Poetry, 
 iii. loi. 
 
 XXVIIL— MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. 
 
 3 21 " abufe," mifufe, put to an improper ufe: the original 
 meaning of the word. 
 
 43" prefently." The change in meaning of this word is 
 mofl remarkable. Originally equivalent to " at 
 prefent, at the time," as in Sir P. Sidney, " the 
 towns yo\x prefently haue," it now conveys an idea 
 oi futurity, and is equivalent to "diredlly, fhortly." 
 
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 Notes. 
 
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 4 15 "portlie," i.e., of a noble appearance or fafhion, as in 
 Udal, St, Luke xix. 41, "viewing and beholding 
 the fame citee [Jerufalem] porfely, and gorgious 
 of buildingcs," &c. 
 
 23 "Forth which," &c., i.e., forth from, out of which. — 
 
 Compare Shakfpere, Kitig John, iv. 2, " from 
 forth the flreets of Pomfret." 
 52" infence," probably we fliould read infence, i.e., impel, 
 urge you. 
 
 8 I " force," power, effe6l. 
 
 8, 12 "hireling, . . . that took it vp for hire." 1 do 
 not know why Rowlands fliould make this fl.ate- 
 ment, which is dire6\ly oppofed to the words 
 of St. Matthew, St. Mark, and St. Luke, where 
 we are told that the Jews compelled Simon of 
 Cyrene to bear the crofs. 
 
 9 16 " Sentenc'd fucceeding vengeance doome," fentenced 
 
 to the doom of future vengeance. 
 
 24 Luke xxiii. 31. 
 10 8 Genefis ii. 9, 
 
 15 22 Withal's Di^ionary for Children gives the proverb, 
 
 '' Homo homini vel Deus, vel Lupus : Man to 
 man is either a Saint or a Diuell." See alfo 
 Hazlitt, Proverbs, &c. 
 29 " obdurate." — See note to Look to It, &c., p. 19, I. 3. 
 
 16 9 "vnkind," probably ufed in its original meaning of 
 
 "unnatural." 
 21 15 " Virginals," a fpinnet. 
 
 23 9 " Nicke not your Pots to deepe," i.e., do not make too 
 
 deep indentations in them, fo as to defraud your 
 cuflomers. — See Halliwell, f.v. Nick. 
 
 24 8 Richard Ferris in 1590, with two friends, Andrew Hill 
 
 and William Thomas, undertook and fuccefsfully 
 accompliflied a voyage in a fmall open boat from 
 London to Briflol. He publifhed an account of 
 this voyage in a fmall tradl, entitled: "The mofl
 
 Notes. 
 
 PAGE LINE 
 
 dangerous and memorable aduenture of Richard 
 Ferris," and dedicated to Sir J. Heneage, one of 
 Elizabeth's Privy Council and Vice-Chamberlain. 
 Ferris himfelf was " one of the fiue ordinarie Meff- 
 engersof herMaieflies Chamber." The adventurers 
 liar ted on their voyage on June 24, but did not 
 reach Brillol till Auguft 3rd. The tradl has been 
 reprinted by Mr. Collier in \i\'s,IlhiJlrations of Early 
 Eiiglijl!, Popular Literature. In Arber's Tratifcrip 
 of the Stationers' Regijlers, ii., pp. 557-8, are the 
 following entries : — 
 
 "7 Augufli [1590] 
 "Edward white / Entred for his copie vnder mafter Hartwell and Mafter 
 Cawoodes handes a ballad of Richard Fferrj's cominge to Briftowe on 
 the Third of Augufte 1590. yj<i" 
 
 " 10 Augufli [1590] 
 " Henrye Carre. / Entred for his copie vnder Handes of mafler Judfon and 
 bothe the wardens a ballad of the ioyfuU entertainement of the wherry 
 and iij wherrymen, viz. Richard Fferrys^ Andrewe Hilles, and William 
 Thomas, by the maiour aldermen and Citizens of Briftoll, 4'° Augufli 
 1590. vj^' 
 
 Taylor, the Water Poet, himfelf with a companion, 
 Roger Bird, undertook a voyage from London to 
 Queenborough, in a boat made of brown paper 
 fupported by air bladders. He gives a full and 
 graphic defcription of their adventures in his 
 "Praife of Hempfeed, with the Voyage of Mr. 
 Roger Bird and the Writer hereof, in a Boat of 
 browne-paper, from London to Quinborough in 
 Kent, 1620." 
 
 84
 
 GLOSSARY.
 
 GLOSSARY. 
 
 The references in the Gloffary to the various feparate 
 Works are indicated by Roman numerals and figures. 
 The Works are numbered in the order of their dates, as 
 follows : — 
 
 I. Betraying of Christ. 
 II. LettingofHvmovrs Blood 
 
 IN THE HeAD-VAINE. 
 
 III. Tis Merrie when Gossips 
 
 Meete. 
 
 IV. Greenes Ghost Havnting 
 
 Conie-catchers. 
 V. LooKE to it: For Ile 
 
 Stabbe Ye. 
 VI. Hell's Broke Loose. 
 VII. A Theatre of Delightful 
 Recreation. 
 VIII. A Terrible Battell be- 
 tweene Time and Death. 
 IX. Six London Gossips. 
 X. Diogines Lanthorne. 
 XL HvMORs Looking Glasse. 
 XII. Doctor Merrie-man : or 
 Nothing but Mirth. 
 
 XIII. A Whole Crew of Kind 
 
 Gossips. 
 
 XIV. The Knave of Clubbes. 
 
 XV. Martin Mark-All. 
 XVI. The Knave of Harts. 
 XVII. More Knaues Yet? 
 XVIII. Sir Thomas Overbury. 
 XIX. A FooLEs Bolt is Soone 
 
 Shott. 
 XX. The Melancholie 
 Knight. 
 XXI. The Bride. 
 XXII. A Sacred Memorie of 
 the Miracles ok 
 Christ. 
 
 XXIII. The Night-Raven. 
 
 XXIV. A Payre of Spy-Knaves. 
 XXV. Good Newes and Bad 
 
 Newes. 
 XXVI. Heavens Glory: Seeke 
 
 It, &c. 
 XXVII. The Famous History of 
 Guy Earl of War- 
 wick. 
 XXVIII. Miscellaneous Poem.s. 
 
 A, X, 2>,pr.., he. 
 
 Abourne, iii, 27, adj., ^^ quafc 
 alburn, a colour approaching 
 to whitenefs." — Nares; fair, 
 light-haired. 
 
 Abroch, iv, 4, to fet abroach is 
 to tap. " Brochyn, or fettyn a 
 veffelle broche (a-broche). 
 Atlamino, dipfidro. '' — Projnpi. 
 Part'.
 
 Glossary. 
 
 Abfolute, V, 14, adv., certainly, 
 affuredly. pofitively. 
 
 Abufe, XXIV, 7. 6'^., deceive. 
 
 Account, XVII, 13, sb., made ac- 
 count to dye, reckoned, 
 counted on death. 
 
 Acquaints, \,2,2>,7'b.pr.t., becomes 
 acquainted with. 
 
 Admire, xiv, 46, z'^./>^./., wonder, 
 areafloniflied; hat, admirari. 
 
 Advertifement, xxvi, 179, sb., 
 warning. 
 
 AfFe6led, i, 36, /./., loved, re- 
 garded with affedion, pleafing 
 to. 
 
 i\fife6ling, vi, 6, />/-./>., being in- 
 clined to, being pleafed with. 
 
 Aifte6tion, v, 10, sb., fancy, liking. 
 
 Agreeuances, xx, 8, sb. pi, grie- 
 vances, wrongs. 
 
 Aidfull, I, 53, adj., aflifting. 
 
 Allow'd, III, 2'], p.p., praifed, re- 
 commended; alovvd, I, 7, p.p., 
 approved of; Fr. alouer, from 
 Lat. landare. 
 
 Almains, xxvii, 32, sb. pL, Ger- 
 mans. 
 
 Alow, XIX, 13, vb., pafs over, for- 
 
 give. 
 
 Als one, viii, 34, all is one, it is 
 all one. 
 
 A'my, III, 30, on my, by my. 
 
 Ankers, xxvi, 8, sb.pl., anchors. 
 
 Anan, in, 28, an ejaculation ufed 
 for the purpofe either of calling 
 attention, or to fhow that the 
 
 fpeaker has not underflood, or 
 
 wiflies to have repeated, any 
 
 fentence. 
 AngeUica, viii, 24, sb., a fpecies 
 
 of majler-wort. — See Gerarde, 
 
 p. 999. 
 Apparitors, iv, 9, sb. pi, fum- 
 
 moners or officers of the Court 
 
 of Arches. 
 Appeacher, xxvi, 5, sb., im- 
 
 peacher, accufer. 
 Apple-fquire, xv, 53, sb., a kept 
 
 gallant, or one who waited 
 
 upon and prote6led women 
 
 of bad chara6ter, a bully. 
 Apprehend, viii, 8, vb.pr.t.,^xa^L&x- 
 
 fland, take in. 
 Approou'd, xiv, 43,/./., proved. 
 
 Cf— 
 
 " What damned error, but fome fober 
 brow 
 Will blefs it and app7'0vc with a 
 text." 
 Merchant of Venice, III. ii., 79. 
 
 See alfo Richard II., I. iii., 112. 
 
 Apt, V, 23, adj., fit, ready; Lat., 
 aptum. 
 
 Arant, 11, 23, adj.^ a word ex- 
 preffive of excefs, as an arrant 
 rogue. 
 
 Arches, 11, 84, sb., the Court of 
 Arches, for the trial of eccle- 
 fiaflical and divorce fuits. 
 
 Argofie, XVI, 48, sb., an argofy, a 
 fliip of great burden either for 
 the merchant fervice or for 
 war. — See Merchant of Venice,
 
 Glossary. 
 
 I. i. Perhaps from the mythi- 
 cal Argos. 
 
 Arrerages, xvi, 32, sb. pi., arrears, 
 debts. '■^Arricrage, an arrerage : 
 the reft or the remainder of a 
 paiment: that which was un- 
 paid or behind." — Cotgravc. 
 
 Arriue, xxvi, 77, vb., bring, place. 
 
 Arfiuarfie, xix, 12, adv., con- 
 trary. "Arfmerfic, backwarde, 
 overthwartly, contrary to all 
 good order; prcepojlere, per- 
 verfeP — Baret's Alvearie, 1580. 
 
 Affure, XIII, 16, vb. iviper., be 
 fure, believe. 
 
 Aflary, xix, 29, read a{iva.y. 
 
 Aftonied, xxii, 5, /./., amazed, 
 flupified. 
 
 Athill, V, 23, sb., atheift. 
 
 Auouch, II, 47, 7'b., declare — 
 
 " I'll az'ouc/i it to his head." 
 Shakfpere, Jlfii/. iVig/ifs Dream, I. i. 
 
 Autem, XV, 7, sb., miflrefs. 
 Ayer, 11, 23, sb., air. 
 
 Bable, XI, II, sb., bauble, glafs 
 
 or metal ornaments. 
 Back'd, X, 40, p.p., Back't, xvii, 
 
 35, baked. 
 Baile, i, 16, sb., releafe. 
 Baitleffe, 11, 47, adj., without 
 
 food; O. Icel., beita. 
 Baletted, viii, 36, p.p., fung in 
 
 ballads. 
 Ballace, xi, 1 8, z'A,ballafl, freight. 
 Bankrout, xv, 55, sb., bankrupt. 
 
 Band, iv, 13, sb., bond. 
 
 Bard quarter-trayes, 11, 59, sb., 
 a kind of dice fo made that 
 the 3 or 4 fliould very feldom 
 turn up, loaded dice. 
 
 Barly-breake, 11, 64, sb., a game. 
 See note, and Brand's Popular 
 Antiquities, Ellis, II., 236. 
 
 Bafes, XII, 3, sb. pi. According 
 to Nares, " A kind of em- 
 broidered mantle, which hung 
 down from the middle to about 
 the knees, or longer, worn by 
 knights on horfeback." It 
 feems to be alfo ufed for an 
 apron, as in Hudibras, I. ii., 
 769. — See Nares' exhauflive 
 note on the word. 
 
 Bead-rowle, xvi, 28, sb., cata- 
 logue, lift. 
 
 Beazer flone, viii, 24, sb., the 
 Bezoar flone. — See note. 
 
 Bee't, XIX, 5, be it, though it be. 
 
 Beetle-head, xx, 28, sb., flupid, 
 thick-headed fellow — 
 
 " A whorefon, beetle-headed, flap- 
 ear'd knave." 
 
 Taviing of the Shre'iO, IV. i. 
 
 Begarded, x, 6, p.p., adorned. 
 So Shakfpere, Alerchant of 
 Venice, II. ii., 143, has guarded 
 in the fenfe of trimmed, 
 braided; fee aKoffe/iry Vfff., 
 Prologue, 16, and Much Ado 
 About Nothing, I. i., 187; cf 
 garded, below.
 
 Glossary. 
 
 Beholding, xxvii, 79,/./., under 
 obligations. This form is fre- 
 quently ufed by Shakfpere for 
 beholden. — See Merchant of 
 Venice, I. iii., 93, &c. 
 
 Belike, xiii, 31, adv., perhaps, 
 forfooth. 
 
 Ben, I, 21, p.p., have been. 
 
 Benums, xxvii, 37, vb. pr.t., 
 benumbs, flupifies, 
 
 Bepinke, xx, 11, vb., flab, cut 
 through. 
 
 Befeeming, vi, 2, pr.p., ap- 
 pearing, fhowing himfelf 
 
 Befliagg'd, v, 27, /./., rough, 
 fhaggy. We have '"''JJicig- 
 haired" in Macbeth, IV. ii., 82, 
 and 2nd Henry VI., III. i., 
 
 367- 
 
 Befhake, xvii, 28, vb., fhake 
 
 heartily. 
 
 Beftraughted, xxvi, 139, p.p., 
 mad, diflra6led. 
 
 Betoyl'd, xxv, Z^,p-p., labouring 
 hard. 
 
 Bewray, xxvi, 278, vb. t?npr., 
 confefs, difclofe. 
 
 Bewray'd, xxvii, 53, p.p., de- 
 filed, polluted. 
 
 Billes, IV, 26, sb., pikes or hal- 
 berts, the ufual weapons of 
 watchmen, hence ufed for the 
 watchmen themfelves. 
 
 Birding peece, xxv, 43, sb., a 
 fowling piece, fporting gun. 
 
 Birlady, iv, 21, by our Lady. 
 
 Blabbe, xxv, 30, sb., tell-tale, 
 
 " Backbiting talk that flattering blabs 
 know wily how to blenge." 
 
 Tuffer, ch. 100, ft. 3, ed. Herrtage, 1878. 
 
 Black-amores, xiii, 15, sb. pi., 
 blackamoors, negroes. 
 
 Blocke, XV, 27, sb., Ihape, 
 fafhion. We flill fpeak of 
 having a hat blocked. 
 
 Blowne, 11, 75, p.p., blown, 
 ftale; perhaps blown upon, 
 i.e., fometime drawn, or the 
 leavings of other drinkers. 
 
 Bob, xxv, 21, vb., cheat, get 
 rid of. 
 
 Bone-ache, iv, 2\,sb., lues venerea, 
 fometimes called bone-ague. 
 
 Bone-baller, 11, 64, sb., a name 
 for a cudgel. To bafle is a 
 provincial term for to beat: 
 a bafling is a thrafliing. 
 
 Boone-fier, vi, 35, vb. imper., 
 light bonfires in. 
 
 Bootleffe, i, 59, adj., ufelefs, un- 
 availing; A.S. bote, advantage. 
 
 Boulder, xvi, 19, adj., bolder. 
 
 Boulder, 11, 83, .yA, a lady's bullle. 
 
 Boulting hutch, iv, 32, sb., a 
 wooden receptacle into which 
 meal is boulted or fifted; 
 K.?).,Hwcecca{?) O. Fr., houche. 
 
 Bowed, IV, 15, adj., crooked, 
 bent. 
 
 Bowfing, XV, 49, sb., bowzing, iv, 
 17, fr.p., drinking. 
 
 Bowfie, XV, 9, adj., drunken.
 
 Glossary. 
 
 Boyle, IV, iS, z'/a, to betray; a 
 
 cant term. 
 Brabbles, xv, 30, sb. pi., quarrels, 
 
 diffenfions. 
 Braces, viir, 10, sb. pi., pairs, 
 
 doubles. 
 Braue, iv, 24, adj., grand, fine. 
 Brauery, viii, 28, sb., fhow, finery. 
 Brauing, i, 23, adj., fliowy. 
 Brawn, xxvii, 50, sb., boar; 
 
 O. Fr., braon, 
 
 " Brok-brefted as a brawnc." 
 
 Morte Arthure, 1095. 
 
 Brewes, iv, 23, sb... broth. 
 Brouwys is mentioned in 
 Richard Cmtr de Lion, 1. 3077. 
 See Halliwell, f.v. Brewet. 
 
 Briefes, xxv, 10, j^. //., letters, 
 petitions. 
 
 Britain, xxvii, 78, sb., Briton. 
 
 Brownifls, xv, 31, sb. pi, a fe6l 
 founded by Robert Brown of 
 Rutland, in the reign of Eliza- 
 beth, violently oppofed to the 
 Church of England; Inde- 
 pendents. 
 
 Budge, II, 53, sb., lambfldn, with 
 the wool dreffed outwards. 
 
 Budge, XVII, 29, vb. pr.t., flir, 
 move, leave. 
 
 Bugs, xvir, 40, sb. pL, bugbears, 
 goblins. '■'■ Lemiiri: Theghofls 
 or fpirits of fuche as dye before 
 their time, or hobgoblings, 
 black bugs, or night-walking 
 fpirits. " — Florio. 
 
 Bugell, VIII, 24, sb., buglofs. 
 
 Bulkes, XV, 20, sb. pi, the flails 
 of fliops, benches. 
 
 Bum card, 11, 58, sb., a card ufed 
 by difhonefl gamblers. 
 
 Buriall, xxvi, 42, sb., burial- 
 place, tomb; A.S., birgels. 
 
 Bufh, XVII, 36, sb., the fign of 
 an inn. — See Tauerne Bufli, 
 and note to Knave of Harts, 
 p. 20, 1. 12. 
 
 Bulli-breeders, xx, 4, sb. pi, (?) 
 
 Buflvcreeping, i, 26, adj., hiding 
 under bufhes. 
 
 Bulke, II, 83, sb., a piece of 
 whalebone, or wood, worn 
 down the front of the flays to 
 keep them flraight. 
 
 Bufk-poynt, xii, 22, sb., the 
 lace, with its tag, which 
 fecured the end of the bufk. 
 — Nares. The meaning here 
 feems rather to be the 
 point or lower end of the 
 bufk. 
 
 Bulfard, v, 15, sb., llupidfool. 
 
 Buffard, v, 28, sb., feme kind of 
 ornament or head-drefs. 
 
 Buzard, 11, 45, sb., coward, fool. 
 
 Caes, xxii, 28, read cdSe. 
 Callis, xxv, 41, sb., Calais. 
 Cannapie, i, 5, sb., canopy. 
 Canfeld, i, 44, /./., cancelled, 
 
 burft. 
 Cant, XV, 17, vb. pr.t., beg.
 
 Glossary. 
 
 Carefull, i, 38, adj., full of care. 
 Cf Shakfpere, Richard III., 
 I. iii., 83— 
 
 "By Him that raifed me to this 
 ca7-efitl height. " 
 
 And Richard II., II. ii., 75. 
 Carr'age, iii, 25, s., behaviour, 
 
 manners. 
 Carrowle, 11, 78, vb., carol, fing 
 
 merrily. 
 Caflieer'd, in, \o,p.p., difmiffed. 
 Caffeere, xxv, 11, sb., cafhier, 
 
 banker. 
 Call, I, 11, p.p., cafl-off. 
 Catchpoles, xxv, 26, sb. pi., 
 
 officers, bailiffs. 
 Caueate, iv, 22, caution; Lat., 
 
 caveat, let him beware. 
 Ceaze, xvi,3 i,7^^./?'./.,feize, catch. 
 Cenfure, 11, 16, vb., judge, de- 
 cide ; Lat., cenfere. 
 Cent, III, 22, s., fmell, fcent. 
 Centinels, i, 22>,vb. pr.t, watches. 
 Cefe, xxiii, 20, vb., make to 
 
 ceafe, flop. 
 Ceflernes, i, 42, sb.pl., fountains, 
 
 pools. 
 Chalk-ccredite, x, 8, sb., credit 
 
 given by chalking up the fcore. 
 Challenging, xiii, 27, pr.p., 
 
 claiming, demanding. " Chal- 
 
 lengyn, or cleymym, vendico." 
 
 Prompt. Parv. 
 Cham, XIX, 17, vb. pr.t., Wefl 
 
 Country diale6lal form of 
 
 ich am, I am. 
 
 Changling, xix, 5, sb., a child 
 
 left by the fairies in exchange 
 
 for the parents' own child. 
 Charnico, 11, 28, sb., a kind of 
 
 fweet wine, made near Lifbon. 
 Chafes, vi, 31, sb. pi., woods, 
 
 forefls. 
 Chat, II, 48, sb., chatter, goffip. 
 Chaue, xix, 17, vb. pr.t., for 
 
 ich haiie, I have, as cham for 
 
 ich am. 
 Chaw-bone, i, 42, sb., jawbone. 
 Chearely, vi, 33, adv., cheeril)^ 
 
 merrily. 
 Check-cloud, i, 26, adj., fo high 
 
 as to reach into the clouds, 
 
 and thus check or impede 
 
 their courfe. 
 Chill, xix, 10, Weft Country 
 
 diale6lal form for I will. 
 Chirurgion, iv, 25, sb., furgeon. 
 Chops, IV, 20, vb.pr.t., places in 
 
 exchange; A.S., ceapian. 
 Chriflide, xix, 12, adj., Chrill- 
 
 maflide. 
 Chufifes, II, 47, sb. pi., old 
 
 mifers. 
 Churched, v, ZS^ P-P-i pi'efent in 
 
 church. 
 Cyuit, V, 16, sb., civet fur. 
 Clapperdugeons, xv, 16, sb. pi., 
 
 common beggars or rogues. 
 Clarks, xii, 18, sb. pi, learned 
 
 men, fcholars (unordained). 
 Clatteing, xxvii, 20, read 
 
 clattering.
 
 Glossary. 
 
 Cloid, IV, 25, p.p., burdened, 
 encumbered. 
 
 Clout, V, 43, sb., rag. 
 
 Clouts, :ii^ii,/^, sb.pl., rags, patches. 
 " Clowte of a fchoo, FiHa- 
 Jinm." — Prompt. Parv. 
 
 Cloy, II, 9, vb., Huff, clog. 
 
 Cloyers, iv, 16, sb. pi., a cant 
 term for perfons who claimed 
 a fliareof theprofitsof fharpers. 
 
 Clutter, X, II, sb., dillurbance, 
 tumult. 
 
 Clyd, XV, &,p.p., llolen. 
 
 Cobweb Lawne, xii, 22, thin, 
 tranfparent lawn. 
 
 Cockletaker, xv, 9, sb., weed- 
 gatherer. — See note. 
 
 Codpiece, 11, 53, sb., an artificial 
 protuberance in the breeches, 
 explained by its name. 
 
 Cog, xxv, 24, vb., cheat, fwindle; 
 cog a die, to load, or play 
 with loaded, dice. 
 
 Coile, VIII, 28, sb., buflle, diflur- 
 bance. — See alfo Quoyle ; and 
 cf Timon, I. ii.,and Miich Ado, 
 III. iii. 
 
 CoUop, IV, 9, sb., literally, a flice 
 or rafher of bacon; hence, 
 generally, a portion, part. 
 
 Combuflious, xvii, 29, adj., 
 boillerous, rough. 
 
 Compa6l, iv, 2%, p.p., in agree- 
 ment with, in league with. 
 
 Compa6led, viii, 21, p.p., com- 
 pofedjframed ; '\jsA.,compa^iau. 
 
 Compaffing, iv, 7, vb., catching, 
 obtaining. 
 
 Complexion, xiv, 23, sb., con- 
 dition. 
 
 C(.)mplexion, xxvi, 98, sb., pre- 
 paration for the face. 
 
 Complotted, i, 19, vb. pl.t., con- 
 fpircd, plotted. " Complotcr, 
 to complot, confpire, combine 
 orpacke together." — Cotgrave. 
 
 Compotent, xix, 30, adj., quietly, 
 contentedly. 
 
 Conceit, 11, 46, sb., thought, 
 fancy. A common ufe. 
 
 Congees, xvii, 29, sb. pi., bows 
 of falutation ; Fr., coiigc. 
 
 Connie, iii, 25, sb., cony, here a 
 term of endearment. 
 
 Connycatch, 11, 13, vb., cheat; 
 literally, to catch a cony or 
 rabbit. 
 
 Confen, in, 15, read cQwioxs.. 
 
 Conforts, vi, 17, sb. pi., confede- 
 rates, companions; Lat., co7i- 
 fortes. 
 
 Confter, viii, 37, vb., under- 
 fland. 
 
 Containe, xxii, 24, vb., fill. — See 
 note. 
 
 Contentation, xv, 23, sb., con- 
 tentment. 
 
 Controule, i, 14, vb., furpafs, 
 overcome. 
 
 Conuerfe, x, 44, vb. imper., be 
 familiar, mix; i, 25, abide, 
 dwell; Lat, converfari. 
 
 B 
 
 9'
 
 Glossary 
 
 Coofen, II, 83, sb.^ a coufm, alfo 
 a cheat. 
 
 Coofnage, 11, 83, sb., coufmftiip, 
 cheating. 
 
 Copefmates, iv, 9, sb. pi., com- 
 panions, mates. The word 
 occurs in Toi/i Tell-Trothes 
 New-Yeares Gift, ed. Fur- 
 nivall, p. 17, 1. 21 — 
 
 " Their husbandes with other of their 
 
 cope/mates.'''' 
 
 Corporall, i, 42, adj., bodily, 
 corporeal, Shakfpere always 
 ufes the form corporal, as 
 in Macbeth, I. iii., 81, and 
 I. vii., 80; Milton has both 
 forms, as in Paradife Lojl, 
 iv. 585, and Samfon Agonijles, 
 616. 
 
 Corpes, I, 55, sb., body. 
 
 Corfe, VI, 13, sb., corpfe. 
 
 Cofonage, iv, 20, sb., cheating. 
 
 Cofoning, iv, 4, adj., fwindling, 
 cheating. 
 
 Counter, xii, 6, sb., place of im- 
 prifonment for debt. 
 
 Coufen, Couffe, in, 15, Cuffe, in, 
 18, sb., coufin. 
 
 Coxcombe, xxiv, 5, sb., fool's 
 head. 
 
 Cracker, xix, 24, sb., crepitus 
 ventris. 
 
 Crake, xi, 27, vb. pt.t., creaked, 
 groaned. 
 
 Cratch, i, 48, sb., cradle, — Cf. 
 Nares. 
 
 Crell-fall, xiv, 44, sb., a diforder 
 of the crefl or rifmg part of a 
 horfe's neck. 
 
 Croanes, 11, 20, sb. pL, literally, 
 old fheep, thence applied in 
 an opprobrious fenfe to old 
 women. 
 
 Crome, iv, 28, sb., a flaff with a 
 hook at the end. — Cf. Tuffer, 
 ed. Herrtage, ch. 17, fl. 19. 
 
 Crofbit, IV, 26, vb. pt.t., Croff- 
 bitten, iv, 28, p.p., fwindled, 
 cheated. 
 
 Crof-leffe, 11, 34, adj., pennilefs, 
 moneylefs. From the early 
 Englifh coins having on the 
 one fide a crofs: the other fide 
 was termed the pile, hence the 
 game of crofs-and-pile, equiva- 
 lent to our heads-and-tails. 
 
 Croffe, III, 10, adj., unlucky, bad. 
 
 Croffe-and-pile, n, 64, a game. — 
 See Crof-leffe. 
 
 Croffe-bard, x, 6, adj. , with crofs 
 flripes, 
 
 Croffe-biting, iv, 3, vb., cheating, 
 fwindling. 
 
 Croffe-confumers, in, 10, vb. pi., 
 money fpenders. — See Croffe. 
 
 Crofs-row, xxvii, 55, sb., the 
 alphabet. " A is the name of 
 the firfl letter in the Crofs- 
 rowe. " — Baret's Alvearie, 1580. 
 
 Crowches, xv, 3 5 , j-(^. pi. , crutches. 
 
 Crowne-fcab, xiv, 44, sb., fcab on 
 the head of a horfe. 
 
 10
 
 Glossary. 
 
 Crue, III, 3, sb., crew, company. 
 Cunning-man, xvii, 20, si?., a 
 
 fortune-teller. The term is 
 
 not yet quite obfolete. 
 Curbar, iv, 28, sb., a thief who 
 
 hooked and flole things out 
 
 of a window. 
 Curde, xii, it,, p.p., cured. 
 Currant, xxiii, 32, adj., current 
 
 coin, the real article, genuine. 
 Curfary, xv, 24, adj., moveable. 
 Curtailes, xv, 51, sb. pL, Curtall- 
 
 iade, xvi, 44, dock-tailed 
 
 horfes. — Cf. Nares. 
 Cuflomed, iv, 23, p.p., filled 
 
 with cuflomers. 
 
 Daily, xxvi, 6, read dally. 
 Daining, i, 4, vb., deigning, con- 
 
 defcending. 
 Dainty, in, 34, adj., valued, 
 
 pleafant. 
 Day is broke, viii, 8, to break 
 
 day is to fail to make payment 
 
 on the appointed day. 
 Deane, 11, 19, good deane, good 
 
 evening, or good night, a falu- 
 
 tation ufed at any hour after 
 
 noon. 
 Deaths-man, i, 31, sb., flayer, 
 
 one who inflidls a death-llroke. 
 Debate, xxvi, 134, sb., quarrel, 
 
 difpute. 
 De'e, III, II, may it do you, iii, 
 
 15, do you. 
 Deferre, x, 43, vb. imper., put off. 
 
 Defie, II, 54, vb., rejedt, refufe. 
 
 " To defye : defpicere.'" — 
 
 CatJiol. Anglicum. 
 Denai'd, i, 21, p.p., denied. 
 Defcent, XI, 26, adj., becoming; 
 
 Lat., decentem. 
 Defcry, xv, 13, vb., defcribe; 
 
 O. Fr., defcrire; Fr., decrire. 
 Deflation, xxvii, 46, sb., read 
 
 deteflation, as required by the 
 
 metre. 
 Detter, iii, 39, sb., debtor (by 
 
 not returning the pledge in 
 
 wine). 
 Dide, I, 46, vb. pt.t, died. 
 Dietie, i, 52, sb., Deity. 
 Ding, XXVI, 79, vb., flrike, 
 
 knock, A.S. 
 Direction, xxvii, 52, sb., one to 
 
 point out the road, to fliow the 
 
 dire6lion, a guide. 
 Difcouered, xv, 53, p.p., in- 
 formed on, difclofed. — Cf 
 
 Merry Wives of Wind/or, II. 
 
 ii., 190 — 
 
 " I fhall difcover a thing to you." 
 
 Difcry, xxvii, 44, vb., difcover, 
 
 defcry. 
 Difgefl, XIV, 25, Difiefl, 11, 75, 
 
 vb., digefl;. 
 Difgrafl, i, 18,/./., brought into 
 
 difgrace, or made of little 
 
 value. 
 Difpend, xiv, 15, vb., fpend. 
 
 "To difpende tdnto expende." 
 
 — Cathol. Anglicum. 
 
 II
 
 Glossary. 
 
 Difpofe, XIV, 15, sb., fort, clafs, 
 
 nature, difpofition. 
 Difpoffed, XXII, 18, read dif- 
 
 poffeffed, as required by the 
 
 metre. 
 Difpute, ir, 82, vb., argue, prove. 
 Diflafle, xxiv, 24, sb., offence. 
 Dolours, I, 27, sb., griefs. 
 Donne, i, 38, /./>., done, put. 
 Doot, XVII, 38, vb., do it, fufifice 
 
 for it. 
 Doubt, X, 26, vb., fear; the ufual 
 
 meaning of the word in Old 
 
 Englifli. 
 Doxie, XV, 7, sb., a miflrefs, a 
 
 proflitute. 
 Drabbe, v, 31, sb., woman of 
 
 loofe chara6ler. 
 Draiike, 11, 9, vb. pi.t., tafled. 
 
 This verb is always ufed by 
 
 Rowlands and Ben Jonfon in 
 
 conne61ion with tobacco, with 
 
 the meaning oifmoke. 
 Drawer, iii, 12, sb., waiter, at- 
 tendant. 
 Drome, vi, 19, sb., drum. 
 Dry-fat, 11, 66, sb., receptacle, 
 
 flore. " Enfo7ifer de la mar- 
 
 chandife en de tomieaux. To 
 
 packe vp wares into Dryfats, or 
 
 Tunnes." — Cotgrave. 
 Dry-weepe, 11, 8r, vb., dry, wipe 
 
 dry. 
 Dub, XX, 19, (?) 
 Dublets, XIII, 13, sb., a game re- 
 
 fembling back-gammon, but 
 
 fmipler. " Reiiette: A game 
 at Tables of fome refemblance 
 with our Doublets, or Queenes 
 Game." — Cotgrave. 
 
 Dudgeon, iv,44,.f^., the root of the 
 box, from which the handles of 
 daggers were frequently made. 
 — Cf Macbeth, II. i. 
 
 Dukcats, X, 6, sb. pi., ducats. 
 
 Dyet, XVI, 17, sb., take the dyet, 
 be put under regimen. 
 
 Earnest, iv, 14, sb., money 
 
 given to bind a bargain, a 
 
 depofit. 
 Earfl, VI, 34, adv., firft, for- 
 merly. 
 E'faith, III, 15, efayth, iii, 39, in 
 
 faith, faith. 
 Eke, I, 5, adv., alfo; A.S., eac. 
 Embrued, viii, 13, /./., fet, 
 
 emboffed. 
 Encounter, xii, 4, vb., meet; 
 
 Fr., encontre. 
 Enditement, xxvi, 4, sb., indidl- 
 
 ment, accufation. 
 Enlarge, vi, 4, vb., free, fet at 
 
 liberty. 
 Enfew'd, \\,\-i,vb. //./., followed, 
 
 enfued. 
 Enflaulement, xv, 49, sb., in- 
 
 flallation, admiffion. 
 Entermedle, xvi, 24, vb., meddle, 
 
 interfere. 
 Erie, 11, 33, Ery, viii, 21, adj., 
 
 every. 
 
 12
 
 Glossary. 
 
 Efpoufeth, XV, 55, vb. pr.t., gives 
 in marriage. 
 
 Eflredge, xi, 1 1, Eflrige, x, 9, sb., 
 oflrich. 
 
 Euidence, i, 52, vb., give witnefs 
 of, prove. 
 
 Exigents, xxvi, 5, sb. pL, exi- 
 gencies, cafes. 
 
 Expe6led, xxvi, 67,/./., waited 
 for, looked for. 
 
 Extafies, xv, 22, sb. pi., agitation 
 of mind. The word is ufed 
 by Shakfpere to exprefs any 
 mental emotion or diflurbance. 
 — Cf. Macbeth, III. ii., 22; and 
 Tempeji, III. iii., 108. 
 
 Extirpe, xv, 10, vb., extirpate, 
 root out. 
 
 Eyde, xxvi, 1^, p.p., eyed, feen. 
 
 Fact, i, 46, sb., deed; Latin, 
 fa6lum. 
 
 Facultie, vi, 14, sb., profeffion, 
 trade. We flill fpeak of the 
 faculty of medicine, &c. 
 
 Fained, xxv, 6, p.p., feigned. 
 
 Faitors, iv., 40, sb. pi., lazy vaga- 
 bonds. 
 
 Falchon, ir, 8, sb., a dagger, 
 rapier. ^'Fauchon: KiBMchion, 
 curtleax, or hangar." — Cot- 
 grave. 
 
 Falling-band, v, 28, sb., neck- 
 bands, worn fo as to fall on 
 the fhoulder; very common 
 in the feventeenth century. 
 
 Falne, xxvi, 71,/./., fallen. 
 
 Famoufmg, xxvii, 5, vb., the 
 making famous, celebrating. 
 
 Fantafie, iv, 31, sb., mind, fancy. 
 
 Fardefl, 11, 83, adj., furthefl, 
 latefl. 
 
 Fart, II, 39, sb., crepitus vetitris. 
 
 Farthingal, xv, 25, Farthing- 
 gale, III, 10, sb., a hoop petti- 
 coat. 
 
 Fafliions, v, 28, sb. pi., (i) the 
 fafhions in drefs; (2) the farcy 
 in horfes. — See note. 
 
 Fatchon, 11, 8, read Falchon, q.v. 
 
 Fawne, xx, 14, sb., fawning, 
 flattery. 
 
 Fayre, in, 13, sb., fare, food. 
 
 Feare, vi 1 1 , 3 5 , z/^. imper. , frighten , 
 terrify. Compare Merchant of 
 
 ' Venice, II. i., 9 — 
 
 ' ' This afpecfl of mine 
 \{.2A\v feared the valiant. " 
 
 Feately, xi, 20, adv., fkilfuUy, 
 
 cunningly, neatly. " Featly, 
 
 fcite, concinne.'^ — Baret's Al- 
 
 vearie, 1580. 
 Feather, xxiii, 3, sb., feathered 
 
 creatures, birds. 
 Fell, I, 13, adj., fierce, cruel. 
 Fellow, III, 41, sb., equal. 
 Felly, xxii, 2)Z^ adv., cruelly, 
 
 fearfully. 
 Fift, I, 16, num. adj., the fifth; 
 
 K.^.,fifta. 
 Filchman, xv, 17, sb., a beggar's 
 
 (lafif or truncheon, formerly 
 
 13
 
 Glossary. 
 
 carried by the upright man. — 
 Cf. Harman, ed. Furnivall, 
 p. 4- 
 
 Fine, i, 5, sb.^ end; Yx.,_fin, from 
 'LQ.t.jJinem. 
 
 Flaggy, XXVII, 41, adj., flapping, 
 waving. 
 
 Flat-caps, xvi, 11, sh. pL, a par- 
 ticular form of cap worn by 
 the citizens of London, and 
 hence a nickname, which be- 
 came a general term of de- 
 rifion. 
 
 Fleering, xvii, 28, adj., grinning, 
 fneering. 
 
 Flout, III, 42, vb., infult, mock — 
 
 " Why will you fuffer her to flout me 
 thus." 
 
 Midfwiinier NigM s Dreain, III. ii., 
 327- 
 
 Fob'd, XXVI, 78, /./., cheated, 
 
 deceived. 
 Foe-harted, i, 6, adj., with enmity 
 
 in his heart. 
 Foifls, IV, 16, sb.pl., fliarpers. 
 Foole-cafe, 11, 37, adj., enclofmg 
 
 or cafing in a fool. 
 Foredone, i, 45, p.p., undone, 
 
 exhaufled, ruined. 
 Foreflow, xxvi, 11, vb., to delay, 
 
 be flow — 
 
 ^' Fore/Io7o no longer, make we hence 
 amain." 
 
 yd Henry VI., II. iii., 56. 
 
 Forfaits, i, 19, sb., penalty. 
 Forraine, 11, 46, adj., foreign. 
 
 Forth, VI, 11, prep., forth from, 
 proceeding from. 
 
 Fough, XIII, 16, inter,, an ejacu- 
 lation of difguflj here, a fmell. 
 
 Fox-furd, XV, 14, adj., in robes 
 lined with fur. 
 
 Foyling, 11, 15, vb., fencing, or 
 perhaps defiling himfelf with. 
 
 Fraught, xvi, :^6, p.p., loaded, 
 furniflied. 
 
 Fraughts, xxv, 15, vb. pr.t, 
 freights, loads. 
 
 Freife-gowne, 11, 8, adj., coarfely 
 clad. 
 
 Fretted, 11, 5, p.p., a term appUed 
 to flringed inllruments. 
 
 Fround, x, 3, vb. pt.t., frowned. 
 
 Frumps, iv, 37, sb. pL, lies, 
 flories. 
 
 Fubbing, iv, 8, vb., deceiving, 
 putting off. — See Fob'd. 
 
 Fullams, 11, 59, sb. pi., loaded 
 dice; there v^txo. fullams high 
 and low, meaning thofe in- 
 tended to fhow the high or 
 low numbers — 
 
 "Gourd ZiwAfiillavi holds." 
 Merry IVh'cs of IVmd/or, I. iii., 94. 
 
 Fyle, V, 30, vb., foil, defile. 
 
 Gage, ii, 76, vb. pr.t., meafure, 
 gauge. 
 
 Gaggling, xxv, 30, adj. Halli- 
 well fays — "Cackling, laughing 
 immoderately;" but rather 
 meaning goffipping, talkative. 
 
 14
 
 Glossary. 
 
 Gaile, i, 44, sb., gaol, prifon. 
 Gainecope, iv, 26, vb., meet with, 
 
 join. 
 Galliardes, in, 19, s.J>l., a quick 
 
 and lively dance, introduced 
 
 about 1541. 
 Galligafcoigne, xv, 27, sb., wide 
 
 loofe breeches. — Cf. Nares. 
 Garded, xxiv, 12, p.p., faced, 
 
 trimmed. — See Begarded. 
 
 " I garde a garmente, I fette one 
 garde upon hym, je bcnde. " 
 
 Palfgrave. 
 
 ' ' A fellow in a long motley coat 
 gtiardid with yellow." ^ 
 
 Henry VIII., Prologue, 1. 16. 
 
 Garnillit, i, 5, p.p., adorned, 
 deckt with liars. 
 
 Gaule, I, 49, sb., gall. 
 
 Geffe, III, 16, Gheffe, xx, 32, 
 vb. imper., guefs, fuggefl. 
 
 Gell, XIX, \Z,p.p., gueffed. 
 
 Gefls, I, 27, sb. pi, guefls. 
 
 Gill, XI, 21, sb., a lazy vagabond. 
 Cf. Tom Tell-Troth, ed. Fur- 
 nivall, p. 127, 1. 494 — 
 "It brings into my fight a lazie^V/." 
 
 Ginglers, v, 27, sb. pi, ornaments 
 worn on fpurs to increafe the 
 rattle or gingle. 
 
 Gird, IV, 38, sb., farcafm, fneer. 
 
 Gleeke, iv, 1 7, j^., had the gleeke, 
 had been fwindled; gleek was 
 a game of cards, and to gleek 
 was a term expreffave of gaining 
 an advantage; to be gleeked \va.s 
 the reverfe. 
 
 Gloze, XI, 15, vb., pretend, make 
 up. — Cf. Shakfpere, Richard 
 II., II. i., 10. 
 
 Gor-belled {read Gorbellied), 11, 
 84, adj., fat-bellied. ^'Aqtiali- 
 cuhis, a paunch, a gorbellie 
 guts." — ^^xQ.'^^Alvearie, 1580. 
 
 " Gorbellied Vmy^s." 
 Shakfpere, \Jl Henry IV., ii. 2. 
 
 Gorge, XXVI I, 41, sb., throat. 
 
 Greene, i, 10, sb., grafs. 
 
 Greeues, xxiii, 27, sb. pi, griefs, 
 troubles. 
 
 Grew, XX I II, 6, vb. pl.t., arofe, 
 were occafioned. 
 
 Gripple, xiv, 38, adj., greedy, 
 rapacious, grafping; one who 
 gripes or grafps at things. 
 
 Groutnols, xxv, 22, sb., thick- 
 head. 
 
 Gudgin, IV, 12, sb., gudgeon, 
 hence bait. 
 
 Guerdon, i, 17, sb., reward, re- 
 turn; Fr., guerdon. 
 
 Gugaw, IV, 21, sb., gew-gaw, 
 plaything. 
 
 Guift, II, 23, sb., gift. 
 
 Gufling, XXVI, 95, adj., guzzhng, 
 drinking, drunken. 
 
 Hackning, XIII, 18, vb., letting 
 out for hire, as hackney horfes. 
 
 Had, VIII, 12, have had. 
 
 Haggard, iv, '^,sb., a wild hawk ; 
 Fr., hagard. 
 
 Haires, xxvi, 81, sb. pi, heirs. 
 
 15
 
 Glossary. 
 
 Hammes, xx, 20, sb. pL, legs. 
 
 Hand-fmooth, xi, 19, adv., with- 
 out difificulty or trouble. 
 
 Hants, XVI, 22, vb. pr.t., haunts, 
 dogs. 
 
 Hart-launcing, i, 50, adj., heart- 
 piercing. 
 
 Hatches, xxvi, 80, sb. pL, 
 openings, gates. 
 
 Haw, XIV, 44, sb., an excrefcence 
 in the eye. Halliwell quotes 
 from the Thornton MS., 1. 2S5 : 
 "The haw in the eghe. " 
 
 Haynous, xiii, 3, adj., dreadful, 
 
 heinous. ^' Haineiix : Hateful, 
 
 deteflable, mofl odious." — 
 
 Cotgrave. 
 Hearbe-grace, viii, 24, sb., rue. 
 Heard, xxii, 18, sb., herd. 
 Heare, v, 28, sb., hair. 
 Hearinges, 11, 79, .y^.^/.j^^herrings. 
 Heartiefl, i, 37, adj., fevered, 
 
 moft heartrending. 
 Heate, vi, 14, sb., to Jlrike a 
 
 heat is a technical phrafe, and 
 
 equivalent to doing any fmith's 
 
 work. 
 Heather, xiv, 36, adv., hither, 
 
 here. 
 Hight, xxii, 25, vb. pt.t., was 
 
 called, named; A.S., hatan, to 
 
 call. 
 Hob-nailes, xx, 25, j'Z'./^/., clowns, 
 
 country folk. 
 Holfome, vi, 25, adj., healthy, 
 
 found. 
 
 Home, XIII, 14, adv., to the point, 
 ftraight. We flill ufe the phrafe 
 " to flrike homer 
 
 Hooker, iv, 28, sb., a fhoplifter. 
 Called in Yi.2xx\iQVL%Defcnpiio7i 
 of E?igla?id, ed. Furnivall, i. 
 283, "hookers, or anglers." — 
 See Curbar. 
 
 Horn-book, xxvii, 55, sb., a fingle 
 fheet, protedled with horn, 
 from which children learnt 
 their alphabet. — See note. 
 
 Horfe-courfers, xv, 3, sb. pL, 
 
 horfe-dealers — 
 
 " He can horfe you as well as all the 
 corfers in the towne. " — Palfgrave. 
 
 Horfecourfing, iv, 14, vb., horfe- 
 dealing. 
 
 Hofpitall, IV, 26, sb., houfe; Lat, 
 hofpitiujn. 
 
 Hofles, xxiii, 16, sb., hoftefs. 
 
 Hot-cockles, 11, 64, sb., a game 
 in which one perfon is blind- 
 folded, and lies down on his 
 face; and being flruck by the 
 other players, mufl guefs who 
 is the flriker. Cotgrave gives 
 " 'A boucho7i: Groueling, lying 
 with his teeth downe-ward; or, 
 couched vpon his face; as hee 
 is that lyes downe at the play 
 called Hot-cocle." 
 
 Hower, i, 7, sb., hour, moment. 
 
 Howerly, 11, 5, adv., hourly. 
 
 Hoyes, xv, 34, sb. //., fmall veffels 
 or barks, floop-rigged. 
 
 16
 
 Glossary, 
 
 Hoyfe, X, 7, bobbing up and 
 
 clown. 
 Huffes, II, 47, sb. pi., fwaggers. 
 Hugh and crie, xv, 46, liue and 
 
 cry. 
 Humane, i, 12, adj., human, 
 
 earthly. This is the ufual 
 
 fpelling in Shakfpere and 
 
 writers of that time. 
 Hufbands, viii, 7, $[>. pL, 
 
 hufbandmen. 
 
 I, pajjlm, inter/., ay. 
 
 I, IV, 4, pers. pr. This pronoun 
 is frequently repeated, as here, 
 " I know not I ;" and again, 
 p. 6, " I tell not I." 
 
 lacobus, XXIII, 19, sb., a gold 
 coin of the value of twenty-five 
 fliillings, iffued in the reign of 
 James I. 
 
 lakes-farmer, iv, 28, sb., a privy- 
 cleaner. 
 
 lampaffe, xiv, 44, sb., a difeafe 
 of horfes. 
 
 lar, xxiii, 20, sb., quarrel, con- 
 tention. 
 
 larre, xii, 12, z'*^. /;-./., chatter, 
 jangle. 
 
 larring, xxv, 28, vb., quarrelling. 
 
 leate, 11, 78, sb., jet. 
 
 letting, II, 71, adj., flalking, 
 flrutting. 
 
 " To jet in others det." 
 
 Tuffer, Five Hmidred Points, ed. 
 Hei-rtage, 113, 38. 
 
 Impart with, iv, 41, vb., tell, 
 communicate. 
 
 Impes, XXVI, 79, sb.pl., literally 
 a flioot, or i;)ranch of a tree; 
 hence young children, not 
 ncceffarily in the modern fenfe. 
 
 Imploiment, i, 3, sb., employ- 
 ment, ufe. 
 
 Impof'd, XVII, 25, /./., com- 
 pofed. 
 
 In a doore, xiii, 32, indoors. 
 
 Inable, 11, 78, vb., enable. 
 
 Incontinent, xxii, 42, adv., 
 at once, immediately. 
 
 In-countring, xxv, 26, adj., a pun 
 on the word, a counter being 
 a debtor's prifon. 
 
 Indifferent, xiii, 21, adj., im- 
 partial. Thus in the prayer 
 for Magiflrates, &c., in the 
 Litany, we find, " that they 
 may truly and indifferently 
 adminifi.er juflice," &c. 
 
 Ingrate, xvi, 27, adj., ungrateful; 
 'L'3X.,ingratiim. So Shakfpere 
 ufes '■'■ infortunate, incertain, 
 indigefled," &c. 
 
 Inlarging, i, 44, pr.p., freely 
 fetting at liberty. 
 
 Inlarg'd, xxvii, 18, /./., freed, 
 releafed. 
 
 Ins, II, 53, in his. 
 
 Infconfe, 11, 41, vb., fhelter. 
 
 Infence, i, 10, xxii, 49, vb., give 
 the meaning, infpire, incite, 
 
 urge. 
 
 C 
 
 17
 
 Glossary. 
 
 Inftant, xxii, 39, adv., inflantly, 
 at once. 
 
 Inflaulment, xv, 49. — Cf. En- 
 fiaulement. 
 
 Interprete, x, 20, vb., inter- 
 fere. 
 
 Intrateth, xii, iS, vb. pr.t., begs, 
 intreats. 
 
 Intrefl, i, 19, sb., ufe, fhare 
 in. 
 
 Jordan, iv, 28, sb., a chamber 
 pot. It occurs in the Prompt. 
 Parv., p. 267. 
 
 lourney, xxv, 12, sb., a day or 
 whole day, a day's work or 
 labour, a day's travel or 
 journey. 
 
 lourny-man, xxiii, 9, sb., work- 
 man, journeyman, one who 
 works by the day; Yx.,journee; 
 Lat., diurmts. 
 
 lowle, XVII, 19, sb., cheek bone. 
 •' Chaule-bone: mandibula." — 
 Prompt. Part'. 
 
 lowlt, XVI, 30, vb., jolt, fliake. 
 
 loyes, XVI, 26, vb. pr.t., delights, 
 finds pleafure. 
 
 Irilh, II, 64, sb., an old game 
 refembling backgammon, but 
 more complicated. 
 
 Ifland, X, 6, sb., Iceland. 
 
 Ifles, II, 46, sb.pl., allies. 
 
 Ittire, X, 15, read zXCxxt, drefs. 
 
 ludious, XX, 8, (?) judicious. 
 
 luftell, X, 14, vb., jollle. 
 
 lybe, XI, 20, vb., jefl, joke. 
 
 Keepe, XXIII, 3, XVI, 6, vb, pr.t., 
 keep up, follow, obferve, ufe. 
 
 Kembing, 11, 72, vb., combing. 
 
 Kidnes, xxiii, 25, sb. pi, kid- 
 neys. 
 
 Kin, xxiii, 15, sb., relation- 
 lliip. 
 
 Kerfie, xii, 6, adj., a woollen cloth, 
 originally made at Kerfey, in 
 Surrey. 
 
 Kindly, i, 3, adj., natural, native. 
 Cf. "the kifidly fruits of the 
 earth," i.e., the natural fruits; 
 A.S., cynn. 
 
 Kind-ment, i, 14, adj., offered or 
 meant in kindnefs or love. 
 
 Kirtle, vi, 14, sb., a term applied 
 at different periods to different 
 garments, male or female, 
 petticoat, jacket, gown. 
 
 Knight of the Pofl, v, 22, sb., 
 properly, a man who gained his 
 living by giving falfe evidence 
 on trials, or falfe bail; in a 
 fecondary fenfe, a fharper in 
 general. 
 
 Lacke, II, 76, vb. imper., be poor, 
 be in need. 
 
 Lackes, xiii, 2, vb. pr.t., is 
 lacking, wanting. 
 
 Langrets, 11, 59, sb. pi, dice- 
 loaded, fo as to come up 4 or 
 3 more often than any other 
 number; the oppofite to Bard- 
 quarter trayes. 
 
 18
 
 Glossary. 
 
 Lant-horne, ii, 12, i'/'.,alanthorn. 
 
 Laps, XXVI, 74, vb. pr.t, involves, 
 rolls up. " To lap : involvereP 
 — Cathol. Angliciivi . 
 
 Lalke, 11, 39, sb., a flux, diarrhoea. 
 
 Laze, XV, 17, z'l>. pr.t., loiter, 
 are lazy. " Endorinir: To 
 laze it when he hath moll 
 need to looke about him." — 
 Cotgrave. 
 
 Leawd, vi, 23, adj., lewd, foolifli, 
 ignorant; A.S., Icewed. 
 
 Leefe, iir, 17, vb., lofe, be with- 
 out. 
 
 Legge, XIX, 28, sb., bow — 
 
 " Make a curtefie infbead of a legge." 
 Lilly, eel. 1632, fign. P. xi. 
 
 Leman, iv, 29, sb., miilrefs. 
 
 " Lemman : concubma, ama/la.''' 
 
 — Prompt. Parv. See Mr. Way's 
 
 note, p. 295. 
 Let, XV, 3, vb., prevent, hinder. 
 Leuell, XIX, 3, sb., aim. 
 Lickpenie, iv, 23, sb., money- 
 
 fwallower, one that licks up 
 
 the pence, an epithet of 
 
 London. 
 Lift, IV, 16, sb., thief; the term 
 
 Hill furvives in the expreflion 
 
 "Ihop-lifter." 
 Light, XXVII, 42, vb., alight, dif- 
 
 mount. 
 Liker, xiii, 8, adj., more like, 
 
 more refembling. 
 Liket, XVII, 29, p.p., liked, 
 
 agreeable. 
 
 Lim, IV, 14, sb., limb. 
 
 Lime-bufli, xxvi, 128, sb., a 
 branch fmeared with bird 
 lime. 
 
 Linckt, I, ^, p.p., linked, joined. 
 
 LiH, XXVII, 63, sb., inclination, 
 will; at a lift, at my will. 
 
 Lob, XIII, 24, sb., lubber, clown. 
 
 Loggets, II, 64, sb., a game in 
 which, a ftake being fixed in 
 the ground, the players throw 
 loggais (or fraall pieces of 
 wood) at it, and he that throws 
 neareft is the winner. The 
 game was prohibited in Henry 
 VIIL's time. 
 
 Lofed, I, 21, p.p., loofed, fet free. 
 
 Loure, xiii, 5, vb. pt.t., looked 
 difcontented, fcowled. 
 
 Lute-pins, xvi, 10, sb. pi, 
 wooden ]Dins for tightening 
 the firings of lutes. 
 
 Lyn'd, 11, 7, p.p., lined; here, 
 having onlyapennyinhispurfe. 
 
 Mach't, xiii, 2'], p.p., matched, 
 mated. 
 
 Maggot-pye, xxiii, 4, sb., the 
 magpie. ^- Pie, meggatapye." 
 — Cotgrave. Prov. EngUfh, 
 from mag, maggot, Meg, Maggie, 
 Margery, Margaret, and pie; 
 'V.dX., pica. 
 
 Make, xv, 5, sb., halfpenny. 
 
 Make-bate, xix, 34, j-^.,a quarrel- 
 fome perfon. " A make-bate, 
 
 19
 
 Glossary. 
 
 a bufie-bodie, a pick-thanke, a 
 feeke-trouble." — Florio, New 
 Worldc of Wbrdes, 89. 
 
 Malapert, xxvi, 66, adj., infolent. 
 
 Male-contented, xiii, 31, adj., 
 difcontented, malcontent. 
 
 Malignant, xxiii, 9, adv., badly, 
 ill. 
 
 Mallice, v, 43, vb., imper., feel 
 or act malicioufly towards, 
 fpite. 
 
 Maltmans,xvii,34,^^., maltfler's. 
 
 Mand, xxiii, \6,p.p., attended, 
 fupported. 
 
 Mandilions, xvi, 13, sh. pL, loofe 
 garments generally without, but 
 fometimeswith, fleeveshanging 
 at the back. They are men- 
 tioned by Harrifon in his 
 Defcription of Efigland, ed. 
 Furnivall, i. 168. 
 
 Mar'd, in, 20, p.p., fpoilt, ruined. 
 
 Marry and gip, m, 37. — See note. 
 
 Maflies, xv, 52, sk pi., mafliffs. 
 
 Mates, XXVII, 83, sb. pi., checks, 
 difappointments. 
 
 Maugre, xxvi, 5, adv., in fpite of. 
 
 Maull, XI, 2 2, i'/^, hammer, mallet. 
 
 Mault-mans Hall, 11, 77, liquor. 
 
 Maunders, xv, 7, sb.pL, beggars. 
 
 Maw, II, 64, sb., an old game, 
 played with a piquet pack of 
 36 cards, and any number of 
 players from two to fix. 
 
 Mayne, xi, 18, sb., mainland, 
 land. 
 
 Meane, xxii, 15, sb., means, 
 
 fource. 
 Meature, in, 13, sb., meteor. 
 Memorize, xi, 20, vb., render 
 
 memorable, record, hand doAvn 
 
 to memory. 
 Merite, i, 49, vb., merit reward. 
 Meffe, xiii, 17, sb., party. A 
 
 party of four dining together 
 
 were called a 7nefs, a term flill 
 
 retained in the army. 
 Middell, iv, 15, sb., midfl, 
 
 middle. 
 Moiling, viii, 44, pr.p., toiling, 
 
 labouring; Lat., moliri. 
 Mome, xiii, 28, sb., idiot, fool; 
 
 Lat., niomus. 
 Moncky-wafl, v, 28, sb., (?) 
 Monefull, i, 49, adj., mournful, 
 
 grievous. 
 Moneth, iv, 25, sb., month; 
 
 A.S., inonath, month. 
 Mony-bag, viii, 30, sb., mifer. 
 Mod an end, xv, 41, generally, 
 
 ufually. 
 Moyling, xvi, 23, sb., hard work. 
 Mumbling, xv, 1 1, /!>/-./., chewing. 
 Mumming, iv, 13, vb., cheating, 
 
 fwindling. 
 Mur, xvii, 19, sb., a fevere cold, 
 
 with hoarfenefs. 
 Mufe, III, 15, vb. pr.t., wonder. 
 Mufkie-gentle, viii, 13, sb., 
 
 fcented dandy. 
 Myery, xxiv, 5, adj., covered 
 
 with mud or mire; A.S., mir.
 
 Glossary. 
 
 Myferable, v, 46, adj., miferly, 
 niggardly. 
 
 Naught, ii, 30, adj., bad, 
 
 naughty. 
 Nauill-gall, xiv, 44, sb., a difeafe 
 
 of the navel in horfes. 
 Neather, viii, 35, conj., neither. 
 Neereneffe, xxiii, 30, sb., near 
 
 relationfliip, intimacy. 
 
 Neefe, xx, 13, vb. ^r.t.,ineQzQ — 
 
 "As a horfe doth hartie neefes." 
 Tom Tell Troth's Ahio Yeares Gift, 
 ed. Furnivall, p. 77, 1. 2. 
 
 Nere, vi, 30, adv., never, not. 
 
 Nere-like, xxii, 51, adj., fuch as 
 had never been before, unpre- 
 cedented. 
 
 New-cut, XI v, 48, sb., a game at 
 cards — 
 
 ' ' Nrcv-cut at cardes brings feme to 
 beggarie." 
 
 Tom Tell Troth's MeJJagc, ed, Fur- 
 nivall, p. 119, 1. 249. 
 
 Newlie, iii, 24, adv., jufl now, 
 
 lately. 
 Nice, III, 22, adv., daintily, with 
 
 affedlation. 
 Niceneffe, xxvi, 257, sb., dainti- 
 
 nefs, fallidioufnefs. 
 Nick, xvi, 12, sb., an indented 
 
 bottom in an ale-can, by which 
 
 the confumer was cheated out 
 
 of a certain amount of the 
 
 liquor. 
 Nickpots, IV, 22, sb. JjL, flealers 
 
 of pots from ale-houfes. 
 
 Nic'kt, XXV, A^o, p.p., with dents 
 
 in the fides, fo as to give un- 
 
 juR meafure. 
 Nie, I, 20, adj., nigh, near at 
 
 hand. 
 Night Rauens, xxiii, 7, sb. pi., 
 
 night birds; a cant term for 
 
 prollitutes. 
 Nip, II, 13, vb., fleal, fnatch, a 
 
 cant term; " to nyp a boung," 
 
 to fleal a purfe. — Harman, ed. 
 
 Furnivall, p. 84. 
 Nips, IV, 16, j(5.//., pickpockets. 
 Nitmongers, iv, 44, sb. pL, (?) 
 Nittie, II, 18, Nitty, 11, 72, adj., 
 
 full of nits or eggs of lice, nafly. 
 Noddie, 11, 64, sb., Noddy, xiii, 
 
 13, sb., a game at cards, by 
 
 fome fuppofed to be the fame 
 
 as cribbage. — See The Coinplete 
 
 Gatnejler, 1682, p. 76, and a 
 
 defcription of it in Halliwell. 
 Noddy, XIII, 10, sb., fimpleton. 
 Nominicates, 11, 63, vb. pr.t.y 
 
 calls, denominates. 
 Notes, XXIV, I, sb. pi., marks, 
 
 figns. 
 Nought, xiv, 8, adj., wicked, 
 
 naughty (? read naught). 
 Novum, XIII, 13, sb., a game at 
 
 dice, played by five or fix 
 
 perfons. 
 
 Oast, xxiv, 21, sb., hod. 
 Obiedlj XIV, 5, adj., mean, mifer- 
 able (? read abje^). 
 
 21
 
 Glossary. 
 
 Obie6led, i, i6,/.^., urged as a 
 plea, pleaded. 
 
 Obuiated, xiv, 37, vb. pi.t, met. 
 
 O'rehatcht, XXVI, 7 9,/./., covered, 
 marked all over. 
 
 On's, XVII, 19, ones, people. 
 
 Ore, XX, T,prep., over. 
 
 Ore-face, xxvi, 76, sb., opening, 
 gafh, orifice. 
 
 Ore-maclit, xiii, 22, p.p., over- 
 matched, 
 
 Ore-flipt, XXVI, 78, sb. pt.t., let 
 flip, paffed over. 
 
 Orethrone, xvii, 29, /./., over- 
 thrown. 
 
 Otherwhiles, xxii, 34, adv., at 
 other times, fometimes. 
 
 Ought, I, 35, vb. pt.t, aught, 
 owned, had the right to. 
 
 Ought, xiii, 35, vb. pt.t., owed. 
 
 Ougly, XXVI, 177, adj., ugly. 
 
 Out-face, XXVII, 53, vb., furpafs. 
 
 Out worn, xxvii, S,p.p., outlived, 
 outlafled. 
 
 Ouergrall, iv, 43, adj., over- 
 grown with grafs. 
 
 Ouer-hard, xv, i <),p.p., overheard. 
 
 Ouer-looke, xxiii, 23, vb., ex- 
 amine into, invefligate. 
 
 Ouer-raatch, xvii, 4, sb., fuperior. 
 
 Ouer-nice, xii, 15, adj., too par- 
 ticular, too dainty. 
 
 Ouerweepe, i, 29, vb. imp., weep 
 ouer and ouer. 
 
 Over-matchful, xxvii, 5, adj., 
 more than a match, fuperior. 
 
 Padder, XV, 7, sb., a foot-pad. 
 
 Padners, x, 18, sb. pi., read 
 Panders. 
 
 Pain'd, xxii, 16, /./., troubled, 
 afflicled. 
 
 Paines, xxii, 16, sb., trouble. 
 
 Paintments, xxv, 15, sb. pL, 
 colours. 
 
 Pantofles, iv, 35, sb.pl., flippers, 
 pattens. " Se tenir ftir le 
 haul bout, to fland vpon his 
 pantofles, or on high tearmes." 
 — Cotgrave, f.v.. Bout. 
 
 Paringfhouell, xxiv, 5, sb., a 
 breaft-plough. 
 
 Paris-garden, xxiii, 13. — See 
 note. 
 
 Parled, xv, 11, p.p., parleyed, 
 talked; Fr., -purler. 
 
 Parrafit, xi, 24, sb., a parafite. 
 
 Part, XXII, 18, vb. pr.t., depart 
 
 from, leave. — So Shakfpere, 
 
 Richard II., A61 iii., fc. 3 — 
 
 " Piefently your fouls mufl_^ar/your 
 bodies." 
 
 Paffage, viii, 39, sb., an old game 
 
 played with three dice. — See 
 
 Halliwell, f.v. 
 Paffe, XX, 21, vb,, fupport, 
 
 endorfe, difcount. 
 Paffe, XXIV, 7, vb. pr.t., care. 
 
 So Shakfpere, 2 He7iry VI. , 
 
 Adl iv., fc. 2— 
 
 "As for thefe filken- coated Haves I 
 paffj not." 
 
 Pafl, VIII, (),p.p., paffed. 
 
 2^
 
 Glossary, 
 
 Patch, II, 8, sb., fool. ''Ital, 
 pazzo; foolifli, fond, mad, rafh, 
 doting, raving or fimple; alfo, 
 a foole, a gull, an idiot, a mad 
 man, a naturall." — Florio, 
 Nezo Worlde of Words. 
 
 Patner, iv, 44, sb.^ read Partner. 
 
 Paunch, 11, 8, vb., literally, to 
 wound in the paunch or 
 flomach; hence generally, to 
 wound, flab. 
 
 Pawne, xiii, 20, sb., fecurity, 
 depofit. 
 
 Payre, xvii, 6, sb,, pack of cards. 
 
 Peaze, iv, ■^2)-> ^^-i P^^? the proper 
 form of the fingular noun; 
 Lat. , -plfiim. 
 
 Peecemeale, n, 75, Peece-meale, 
 Yi, 13, adv., by little pieces, 
 by fmall quantities, piece by 
 piece. 
 
 Penthoufe, 11, 48, sb., literally, 
 that part of a roof which pro- 
 ie6ls fufficiently to aftbrd 
 fhelter to any walking under ; 
 hence, generally, flielter. A 
 corruption of the French 
 appentis, an appendage to a 
 houfe, an out-houfe. 
 
 Perfeuer, xxvi, \(),vb., continue. 
 The ufual fpelling of the time. 
 The only inflance in which 
 it is fpelt perfevere in Shak- 
 fpere is in Lear, iii. 5, 23, 
 where the quartos have it thus 
 fpelt. 
 
 Peflerd, ir, 47, p.p., crowded, 
 overloaded. " Empejlrer, to 
 pefler, intricate, intangle, 
 trouble, incomber." — Cot- 
 grave. So Tuffer, ch. 48, 
 fl. 14— 
 
 " Some /£/?67' the common with Jades 
 and with fheep." 
 
 Petit larciney, xv, 14, petty 
 
 larceny, a fmall theft. 
 Pickadilly, xxiii, 9, sb. — See 
 
 note. 
 Pickt-hatch, xvii, 32, sb., a no- 
 torious haunt of proflitutes in 
 
 Clerkenwell. 
 Pilled, XV, 22, /./,, pillaged, 
 
 plundered. 
 Pilling, XV, 44, /;-./., pillaging, 
 
 plundering. 
 Pinchcrufl, iv, 9, sb., a miferly 
 
 fellow. 
 Pinching, i, 50, adj., niggardly, 
 
 mean. 
 Pingling, in, 17, sb., drinking by 
 
 drops or with relu6lance. 
 Pippin fquier, 11, 39, equivalent 
 
 to an Apple-f quire, q.v. 
 Pitch-fa c'd, i, 28, adj., dark as 
 
 pitch, black. 
 Pitcht, XI, 19, vb. ptJ., fet up, 
 
 fixed. We flill fpeak of 
 
 pitching a tent; A.S., pihtan. 
 Pith, VI, 14, sb., flrength, might. 
 
 "Pyththy, of great fubftance, 
 
 fnbjiancieiix ; pyththy, flronge, 
 
 p2iijfa7if.^'' — Palfgrave. 
 
 23
 
 Glossary. 
 
 Places, XXIV, 13, sb. pi., paffages, 
 
 texts. 
 Planakle, xix, 17, sb'., planet. 
 Poaring, iv, 19, /r./^., fearching, 
 
 hunting, peering, poring over. 
 Poafl, VIII, 4, ^1^., meffenger, 
 
 courier. So Shakfpere, Corio- 
 
 laniis, V. 6, 50 — 
 ' ' Your native town you enter'd like a 
 
 Poafl, xiv, 13, sb., reckoning: 
 originally the door-poll on 
 which the fcore was written. 
 
 Point, XIII, 20, vb., appoint, fix. 
 
 Poking yron, viii, 12, sb., an in- 
 llrument for putting the plaits 
 of a ruff in the proper form : 
 originally made of wood or 
 bone, afterwards of fleel, fo as 
 to be ufed hot. 
 
 Pollecie, 11, 43, sb., craft, artifice, 
 flratagem. 
 
 Poll-euill, XIV, 44, sb., a difeafe of 
 the head in horfes. 
 
 Polony Ihoe with a bel, xv, 23, (?) 
 
 Pompion, xiv, 27, sb.^ pumpkin. 
 
 Port-cullice, 11, 25, sb., a coin 
 (halfpenny) iffued in Eliza- 
 beth's reign, having a port- 
 cullis flamped on the reverfe, 
 as a mint-mark. Bacon refers 
 to them in the Dedication to 
 his Effays, ifL ed., 1597. 
 
 Pofe, XI, 19, vb. pr.t., puzzle, a 
 fhortened form of appofe; we 
 Hill ufe the term a pofer for 
 
 an unanfwerable problem, and 
 
 the examiners at the Univer- 
 
 fities ufed to be called pofers. 
 
 See Harrifon's Defcription of 
 
 Efigland, ed. Furnivall, I., 35. 
 
 " Examyn or appofyn, or a- 
 
 fayyn (pofyn, pofen) examine.'' 
 
 — Provipt. Parv. 
 Pofl ouer, XXVI, ii,z'^.,pollpone, 
 
 defer. 
 Pottle, XIII, 6, vb., a meafure of 
 
 two quarts, half-a-gallon. 
 Poulder, 11, 60, sb., powder. 
 Poynado, xi, 17, sb., dagger, 
 
 poniard. 
 Poynt, xvi, 38, sb., at poynt to, 
 
 on the point of. 
 Prancke, xiii, 27, sb., prank, 
 
 trick. 
 Prefident, xi, 16, sb., precedent, 
 
 example. The fame fpelling 
 
 occurs in the folio editions of 
 
 Shakfpere, Tempejl, ii. i, 284. 
 Preuent, xxii, 43, vh., anticipate, 
 
 come before; \uZX., prroenir. 
 Pricke, xiii, 22, vb., do fancy 
 
 needlework on, decorate. 
 Pricklowfe, xxiii, 9, sb., prick- 
 
 loufe, a nickname for a tailor. 
 Print, II, 52, adj., new print, 
 
 literally, newly flamped, newly 
 
 iffued; hence generally, new. 
 Prifed, i, 21, vb. pt.t., valued, 
 
 priced. 
 Procured, i, 9, vb.pt.t., managed, 
 
 fecured.
 
 Glossary, 
 
 Proper, iii, 32, Propper, xiii, 
 
 17, ^^.j handfome. Compare 
 
 Midfujumer Night's Dream, 
 
 i. 288— 
 
 "Pyramus is a fweet-faced man; a 
 proper man, as one fhall fee in a 
 fummer's day." 
 
 Cf. alfo Hebrews xi. 23. 
 
 Prouant, iv, 12, j/^. — See note. 
 
 Prouoked, xv, 54, /./., incited, 
 infligated. 
 
 Pudding-houfe, xvi, 41, sb., 
 flomach. 
 
 Pullen, XV, 17, sb., poultry. 
 
 Puncke, 11, 16, sb., a proftitute. 
 
 Punie, IV, 26, j(^.,a fmall creature, 
 fludent. Frefhmen at Oxford 
 were called punies of the firjl 
 year; Yx., p^iifne. 
 
 Purchafe, i, 19, vb. and sb., to 
 purchafe, or a purchafe, was 
 applied not only to anything 
 acquired in exchange for fome 
 valuable confideration, but 
 alfo to things obtained in any 
 way, whether honeflly or dif- 
 honeflly. 
 
 Put by, XXII, 43, /./., puflaed 
 afide. 
 
 Puts off, XII, 12, z'^. />r.A, takes 
 off his hat, uncovers. 
 
 QuACKSALUER, v, 15, sb., quack. 
 Qualified, i, 44, p.p., foftened, 
 
 mitigated, tempered. 
 Queane, 11, 19, sb., properly a 
 
 woman, but generally applied 
 
 to one of loofc charadler; 
 
 A.S., cwin. 
 Queafie, xix, 38, adj., delicate, 
 
 dainty. 
 Queller, xv, 16, sb., deflroyer; 
 
 A.S., cwellati. 
 Querrifler, i, 25, sb., chorifler. 
 Quite, XVI, 43, vb., requite, repay. 
 Quitter-bone, xi v, 44, sb., a rotten, 
 
 difeafed bone in a horfe, from 
 
 which matter runs. 
 Quires, i, 25, sb., choirs. 
 Quoile, X, 14, quoyle, iii, 25, 
 
 sb., diflurbance, tumult. The 
 
 fame as Coile. Cf. Fr. cuellce, 
 
 a tumult. 
 Quoine, xiv, 4, quoyne, xx, 20, 
 
 sb., coin, money. 
 
 Railed, xv, 54, /./., having a 
 neck-tie or cravat. — See note. 
 
 Raine, iv, 40, vb. Imper., rein in, 
 curb. 
 
 Rakehels, xv, 45, sb. pi, rakes, 
 revellers. 
 
 Ramd vp, xxvi, is,p-p-, tightly 
 faflened. 
 
 Rampalion, iv, 29, sb., a term of 
 reproach, like our rapfcaliion, 
 a violent fellow. 
 
 Rancke, xxv, 35, adj., great, 
 noble. 
 
 Randauow, xv, 48, sb., rendez- 
 vous, meeting place. 
 
 Rarely, xix, 9, adv., extraordi- 
 narily. 
 
 D 
 
 25
 
 Glossary. 
 
 Rayfd-veluet, xii, 3, adj., llriped 
 
 velvet. " Cloth of rayes," 
 
 firiped cloth, is mentioned in 
 
 P. Plowman^ vii. 217. 
 Re-edifie, xv, 26, vb., rebuild; 
 
 Lat., re-cedificare, 
 Refledling, i, 51, pr.p., turning 
 
 back. 
 Refrained, i, 39,/./., difregarded, 
 
 kept away from. 
 Relie, xxvi, 7, vb.., trufl, allow to 
 
 depend. 
 Religious, xxvii, 66, adj., one 
 
 vowed to religion, a member 
 
 of one of the religious orders, 
 
 a monk. 
 Refolue, iii, 31, vb. imper., fettle, 
 
 decide, fatisfy. 
 Retchlelly, iv, 46, adv., care- 
 
 leflly; A.S., receleas. 
 Retyr'd, i, 36,/./., drawn back; 
 
 Fr., retirer, from Lat., 7'etra- 
 
 here. — Cf. Tempejl, v. i, 
 
 310. 
 Reuell-rout, xv, 50, riot. 
 Reuoake, xi, 17, sb., recall, re- 
 cover; Lat., revocare. 
 Reynaldo, v, 21, sb., fomefpecies 
 
 of wine. 
 Rifle, xxiii, 19, vb., to raffle. 
 Rifeling, xxiii, 19, sb., raffle. 
 Ritch, XIX, 6, adj., rich. 
 Roaring-boy, xxiii, 10, sb., a 
 
 bully. — See Nares. 
 Rooke, X, r8, vb. pr.t., cheat, 
 
 fwindle. 
 
 Rowle, XIX, II, XX, 19, sb., roll 
 of tobacco (Hill in ufe). 
 
 Rowt, VIII, 5, sb., crew, company. 
 " Route,/., a rutt, rowt, troope, 
 companie, multitude." — Cot- 
 
 grave. 
 
 Roy fling, 11, 4, adj., riotous, 
 bluflering — 
 
 " They ruffle and roijl it out." 
 
 Harrifon's Defcription of England, 
 New Shakfpere Society, ed. Fur- 
 nivall, i. 77. 
 
 Ruffe, II, 64, sb., a game at cards. 
 
 Ruffe, II, 83, sb., a ruff, frill. 
 
 Ruffler, XV, 7, sb., a robber of 
 wayfaring men and market 
 women. — Awdelay on Vaga- 
 bonds, p. 3. See alfo Harman, 
 ed. Furnivall, p. 30. 
 
 Runnagate, xxvii, 37, sb., run- 
 away, coward. 
 
 Ruffet, V, 1 1, adj., made of coarfe 
 cloth of a dingy brown colour. 
 Hence, ''one clothed in ruffet" 
 was equivalent to a country- 
 man, ruflic. 
 
 Ruth, I, 28, sb., grief. 
 
 Ryfell, VI, 2)Zi ^''^- ^'f'ip^f-, rifle, 
 plunder. 
 
 Sack-posset, xxiii, 17, sb., a 
 drink of wine or treacle boiled 
 with milk. Kpojfet was ufually 
 taken before retiring to reft. — 
 See Merry Wives of Wind/or, 
 V. 5- 
 
 26
 
 Glossary. 
 
 Sadneffe, iii, 29, sb.^ ferioufnefs. 
 " Sad or fobyr wythe owte law- 
 hynge: Agelajler" — Prompt. 
 Parv. 
 
 Sallets, XX, 17, sb. pi.., falads. 
 In the prefent inilance it ap- 
 pears to be equivalent to food 
 not animal. 
 
 Salt, XXVII, 17, adj., witty. 
 " Salt, a pleafant and merrie 
 word that maketh folks to 
 laugh, and fometime pricketh." 
 — Baret's Alvearle, 1580. It 
 is a literal tranflation of the 
 Latin falfus, which was ufed 
 in exa6lly the fame fenfe. 
 
 Salt, IV, 36, sb., a falt-cellar. 
 
 Saluing, i, 16, adj., faving. 
 
 Samen, xxiv, 6, vb.pr.t., examine, 
 queflion. 
 
 Saunlbell, xv, 13, sb., the 
 Sandlus-bell, faint's-bell, or 
 fmall bell of a church, which 
 called to prayer and other 
 offices. — See Halliwell, f.v., 
 fainfs-bell. 
 
 Sauegard, iv, 19, sb., a riding- 
 ikixi, a large outer petticoat 
 worn by females when riding 
 to protedl them from the dirt. 
 —Halliwell. 
 
 Say, xxvii, 29, vb., attack, try, 
 effay; but here mofl probably 
 a mifprint for flay. 
 
 Scabbe,xxv,3o,i'^.,breedafcabbe, 
 caufe a quarrel or diffenfion. 
 
 Scalde pates, xv, 36, adj., fcabby 
 
 heads, fcald-heads. 
 Scand, i, 16, p.p., fcanned, clofely 
 
 examined into. 
 Scant, VI, 39, adv., fcarcely. So 
 
 Bacon, Table of Coulers, i — 
 
 ' ' The Epicure that will /cant indure 
 the Stoic to be in fight of him." 
 
 Cf. alfo Romeo and Juliet, i. 2. 
 
 Scarffing, i, 2^,pr.p., concealing, 
 covering. 
 
 Scath, III, 42, vb., injure, damage, 
 hurt; K.'S).,fceatha. 
 
 Sconce, x, 15, sb., overall, 
 covering. The original mean- 
 ing of fconce was a fort or 
 fortification, a meaning which, 
 taken figuratively, applies here. 
 
 Scrappage, xv, 58, sb. — See 
 fnappage. 
 
 Scufe, VI, 27. vb., excufe. 
 
 Seame-rent, vi, 39, adj., with 
 clothes torn or ragged at the 
 f earns. 
 
 Seandale, i, 7, sb., read fcandale, 
 offence. 
 
 Secure, i, 48, adj., free from care; 
 Lat., fecurus, from fe=fine, 
 without, and cura^ care. 
 
 Seedes-men, v, 9, sb. pi., fowers. 
 
 Seeke, xvi, 16, vb., may be to 
 feeke, may be wanting. Com- 
 pare Tuffer's Five Hundred 
 Points of Good Hufbajidry, ed. 
 Herrtage, x. 24 — 
 
 " Their dinners be to feeke." 
 
 27
 
 Glossary. 
 
 Seeley, xvii, 17, adj., {iWy, foolifli; 
 A.S., felig. 
 
 vSence, i, 23, 7'1?., perceive; Lat., 
 foitio. 
 
 Sent, XV, 13, vb. prJ., fuppofe, 
 perceive. — See the preceding 
 word. 
 
 Sering, iv, 8, sb., a fyringe. 
 
 Seruing-mand, xiv, 2>,p.p., turned 
 into a ferving-man. 
 
 Set, VIII, 12, sb., fafliion, con- 
 dition, form. 
 
 Shadowed, iv, 17, vb. pt.t., 
 followed like a fhadow. Com- 
 pare the life of the Latin 
 umbra for a conftant follower, 
 one who never left you, 
 who haunted you like your 
 fhadow. 
 
 Shag, XVII, 32, adj., fliaggy, 
 
 rough, " Vein, hairie, fliag, 
 
 nappie. " — Cotgrave. 
 
 " I will not write of fweatie, long, 
 JIiag\\zSx." 
 
 Tom Tell Trothc, ed. Furnivall, p. 120. 
 
 Sharde, xxii, 37, vb.pt.i., fhared, 
 enjoyed. 
 
 Sharke, xvi, 3, vb., fwindle, de- 
 fraud. 
 
 Sheep-coat, xxvi, 40, sb., Iheep- 
 fold. "Schepecote, Caula." — 
 Prompt. Parv.; A.S., cot. 
 
 Shine, i, 20, sb., brightnefs, glory. 
 
 Shiuers, xxvi, 122, vb. pi., 
 fplinters, pieces. 
 
 Shot, xvi, 42, sb., fcore, bill. 
 
 Shoue-groate, 11, 64, sb., now 
 called fhove-halfpenny. It 
 confifls in driving with a flroke 
 of the palm of the hand a coin 
 along a table, fo as to flop 
 between certain lines. 
 
 Shriking, i, 6, adj., fhrieking. 
 
 Shroe, xiii, 7, flirow, xi, 28, sb., 
 fhrevv. 
 
 Sieth, xii, 12, fith, viii, 34, sb., 
 fcythe. 
 
 Sike, IV, 39, adj., fuch. The 
 northern form of the word. 
 
 Sin-frought, xxvi, 77, p.p., fm- 
 freighted, fm-laden. 
 
 Singuler, 11, 11, adj., fmgle, only; 
 Lat. , fingularis. 
 
 Sin-foylifide, xxvi, 86, /./., 
 polluted with fin. 
 
 Sir-reuerence, xiii, 16, human 
 ordure. — See Halliwell, f.v. 
 
 Sife, III, 12, sb., kind, defcription. 
 
 Sith, XXVI, 156, cojij'., fince. 
 
 Sixe and feauen, xiii, 14, the 
 
 cafl of a die, chance. So in 
 
 Tuffer, ch. x., fl. 60, we have 
 
 " Setteth his foule upon fix or on 
 feauen.''^ 
 
 Sixt, XVI, 39, num. adj., fixth. 
 Skil, VIII, 43, Skils, xiii, 35, vb., 
 
 to matter, be of confequence; 
 
 it fkils not = it matters not. 
 Skinker, iii, 18, sb., tapfler, 
 
 drawer. Aquarius is called 
 
 a Jkinker in Dii Bartas, 
 
 P- 33- 
 
 28
 
 Glossary. 
 
 Skriching, xv, 32, sb., fcreeching, 
 hooting. 
 
 Slaues, XXIV, 3, vb. pr.l, makes 
 himfelf a flaue. 
 
 Slopp, II, 18, sb., at different 
 times a jacket or caffock, a 
 flioe, a pair of breeches. Still 
 retained in the vulgar "y?b/- 
 JIiop,'' a fliop for the fale of 
 old clothes dXi^ flops, or cheap 
 clothes. 
 
 Smoother, xxv, 14, fniother,xvii, 
 22, sb., thick, Rifling fmoke, 
 properly of a fmouldering fire. 
 Bacon ufes "topafsinfmother" 
 for "to be flifled," in Effay 
 xxviij and " to keep in 
 fmother" for "to flifle," in 
 Effay xxxi. W. Mapes fpeaks 
 of " fmoke and fmother," ed. 
 Wright, p. 339. 
 
 Smug the Smith, xiv, 44. — 
 Compare ijl Henry IV., iii. i, 
 102. 
 
 Snap-haunce, xii, 6, sb.,a. fpring- 
 lock or clafp. 
 
 Snappage, fnapping, iv, 16, sb., 
 alhare in the profits of fnarping. 
 
 Snarled, iv, 36, /./., fnared, 
 
 entangled. Cf. Spenfer, Faery 
 
 Queene, III., xii. 17 — 
 
 ' ' And from her head ofte rente her 
 fnarkd heare. " 
 
 Snuffe, III, 13, vb., fneer, turn 
 
 up its nofe. 
 Snye, xiv, 39, vb., cut. 
 
 Sod, II, 9, /./., boiled; A.S., 
 
 feodan. 
 Some, XIX, 11, sb., fum, amount. 
 Sound, xxiii, 34, vb., fwoon. 
 
 faint. 
 Sowce, XX, 13, sb., the head, 
 
 feet, and ears of fwine boiled 
 
 and pickled. 
 Sowing, XIV, 35, pr.p., fewing, at 
 
 needlework. 
 Spawle, XX, 13, vb. imper., to fpit 
 
 out with force. 
 Speed, XXV, 5, vb., fucceed. 
 Spent, VI, 23,/./., worn out, ex- 
 
 haufled. 
 Spight, XIII, 35, sb., a fpite, a 
 
 grudge. 
 Spittle, XX, 37, sb., an hofpital, 
 
 lazar-houfe. " Spyttylle howfe, 
 
 leproforiuin. " — Prompt. Parv. 
 Sprite, I, 24, sb., fpirit. 
 Spurned, iv, 21, vb. pt.t., kicked, 
 
 flumbled againfl. 
 Square, iv, 8, sb., agreeing, 
 
 '' breakes no fquare," makes 
 
 no difference. Cf " out of 
 
 fquare." — Tivo Noble Kifif- 
 
 men, iv. 3, %i. 
 Squirils, v, 31, sb.pl., proflitutes. 
 Staid, xxiii, 16, vb.pt.t., lleadied, 
 
 propped up, fupported. 
 Stale, XV, 53, sb., decoy, con- 
 federate. 
 Stander, xv, 53, sb., one who 
 
 flands fentinel for the Padder 
 
 while he robs. 
 
 29
 
 Glossary. 
 
 Starueling, xiv, 2^, sb., a poor, 
 flarved creature. 
 
 Stancht, xvii, 29, vb. pt.t., 
 llaunched, flopped. 
 
 Stare, xxiii, 4, sb., flarling. Still 
 in common ufe. 
 
 Staruing, iv, 27,/^./,, perifhing 
 with cold. The proper mean- 
 ing of the K.^. Jleorfan. 
 
 Statute merchant, iv, 14. Defined 
 in the old law didlionaries, 
 " A bond acknowledged before 
 one of the Clerks of the 
 flatutes merchant, and mayor 
 of the llaple, or chief warden 
 of the City of London, or two 
 merchants of the faid city for 
 that purpofe affigned, or be- 
 fore the chief warden or mayor 
 of other cities or good towns, 
 or other fufficient men for that 
 purpofe appointed." 
 
 Stauled, xv, 49, p.p., inflalled, 
 admitted. 
 
 Stayleffe, i, 20, adj., vanifhing, 
 pafling. 
 
 Stayes, 11, 59, vb. pr.t., is Hayed, 
 is fupported, depends. 
 
 Steake, xiv, 39, vb., flick, flab. 
 
 Steere, xi, 15, sb., an ox in its 
 third year. 
 
 Stewes, XI, 24, sb. pi., brothels. 
 
 Stew-pottes, vi, 7, sb. pi., 
 flews. 
 
 Stillified, XI, 16, adj., diflilled. — 
 See note. 
 
 Stint, XXII, 37, vb. imper., ceafe, 
 flop; A.S>.,Jlynfan. 
 
 Stinted, i, 14, adj., to which a 
 limit has been appointed, 
 fixed. 
 
 Stintleffe, i, 48, adj., ceafelefs, un- 
 ending; I,53,^^^'.,unceafingly. 
 
 S. Martin obferuants, xv, 2 5 , sb.pl. , 
 makers of rings, who ufed to 
 have their flails within the 
 Collegiate Church of St. Mar- 
 tin's-le-Grand. 
 
 Stock-fifh, VI, 8, sb., dried fifh. 
 
 Stooe, X, 18, vb., to flow, 
 
 Stooleballe, 11, 64, sb., a game at 
 ball, in which, according to 
 Dr. Johnfon, the ball was 
 driven from flool to flool. — 
 See Strutt's Games, p. 97. 
 
 Stopt, II, 59, p.p., loaded; a hole 
 being drilled into dice, and 
 afterwards flopped with quick- 
 filver or lead. 
 
 Stoter, xii, 14, sb., flater, a Greek 
 coin. 
 
 Stox, XXIII, 3, sb. pi, the flocks. 
 
 Strangulion, xiv, 44, sb., a difeafe 
 in horfes, flrangury. 
 
 Strap, IV, 7, sb., a cant term for 
 wine. 
 
 Strap, XXIII, 10, sb. (?) — See 
 Greene's Ghojl, p. 7, 1. 23. 
 
 Strickefl, xvi, 5, adj., flridlefl, 
 fever efl. 
 
 Strout, X, 8, vb. imper., flrut. 
 
 Stub, XX, 19, sb., flump. 
 
 30
 
 Glossary. 
 
 Suddes, XXV, 12, sb., to be in 
 the fuddes = to be fullen, or in 
 a fulky temper. 
 
 Sumners, iv, 9, sb. pL — See Ap- 
 paritors. 
 
 Supply, VIII, 25, vb. pr.t., fill 
 the places of. 
 
 Suppofe, XV, 23, vb.pr.i., believe, 
 vnderfland. 
 
 Surceafed, i, 28, vb. pt.t, ceafed. 
 Not etymologically conne6led 
 with ceafe, which is from ceffer, 
 but ixorafurfis, and that from 
 furfeotr. Surceafe is a legal 
 term, meaning the arreft or 
 floppage of a fuit. — See Shak- 
 fpere, Macbeth, i. 7. 
 
 Sufpedl, X, 26, sb., caufe of fuf- 
 picion. 
 
 Sutable, 11, 54, adj., in fuit, cor- 
 refponding. 
 
 Suted, I, 5 i,p.p., dreffed, arrayed. 
 
 Swabber, v. 17, sb., one who 
 fwabs or cleans the decks of 
 a fhip. 
 
 Swaied, i, 30, vb.pt.t., had power 
 or influence. 
 
 Swarm e, i, 9, sb., crowd. 
 
 Swartefl, i, 5, adj., darkefl; A.S., 
 fweart. 
 
 Swaruing, i, 21, pr.p., turning 
 afide, fwerving; K.^.,fzveorfaji. 
 
 Sweet, I, 18, sb., here, gain, ad- 
 vantage. 
 
 Swones, 11, 8, sb., an oath; cor- 
 rupted from God^s wounds; 
 
 after flill further corrupted into 
 zounds. 
 Swound, xxvii, 19, sb., fwoon, 
 faint. — Compare Sound. 
 
 Table, hi, 14, vb., dine. 
 
 Table-bookcs, in, 41, sb. pi., 
 memorandum books, books 
 with leaves of wood, flate, or 
 vellum, ufed for keeping notes 
 or memoranda. 
 
 Tables, 11,43, j-^.//., backgammon. 
 
 Tackling, xv, 15, j-(^., tackle; Hand 
 to my tackling, fland to my 
 guns, hold my place. 
 
 Taffaty, xii, 6, sb., taffeta, a kind 
 of thin filk, but here, Mutton- 
 taffaty, meaning fheepfkin. 
 
 Talkt, XXV, 21, p.p., talked to, 
 fettled with. 
 
 Target, xxvii, 5, sb., fhield. 
 
 Tafke, i, 27, vb. imper., impofe 
 as a talk upon. 
 
 Tauerne-bufh, xvi, 20, sb., fign. 
 Cotgrave has ^'' Bouchon, m., 
 a flopple; alfo, a wifpe of 
 flrawe, &c. ; alfo, the bufh of a 
 tauerne, or alehoufe." 
 
 Tearmer, iv. 28, sb., a perfon 
 who vifited London during 
 term, which was the fafhion- 
 able feafon. 
 
 Tearmes, i, 41, sb.pl., words, ar- 
 guments. 
 
 Tendring, i, 33, pr.p., offering, 
 tendering. 
 
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 Glossary. 
 
 Tellers, iv, 33, sb. pL, fixpences. 
 See Harrifon, Defcription of 
 England, ed, Furnivall, i. 362. 
 
 'I'heame, iv, 8, 5-(^,, theme, fubje6l. 
 
 Theare, xiv, 4, adv., there. 
 
 Theather, xvii, 39, adv., thither. 
 
 Theeues aUie, iv, 36, turned 
 down Theeues alhe, he ran 
 away. 
 
 Thilke, iv, 40, /r., thefe, thofe. 
 From that ilke, that fame. 
 
 Thirfl-flaunch, i, 42, adj., thirfl- 
 quenching. 
 
 Thother, xxii, 23, a contra6lion 
 for The other. 
 
 Thrall, xxvi, 262, sb., flave. 
 
 Thwack't, iii, 13, p.p., filled to 
 overflowing, furfeited. 
 
 Ticktacke, 11, 64, sb., a kind of 
 backgammon, played with both 
 men and pegs, but more com- 
 plicated than the modern game. 
 
 Tire, xvi, 43, sb., drefs, attire. 
 
 To beate, xix, 23, vb. pt.t., all 
 to beate = hit, thraflied. This 
 ufe of the prefix to is very 
 common in early Englifli 
 writers. 
 
 Tofore, xvi, 41, adv., before, 
 heretofore. 
 
 Too too, xiii, 4, adv., the repe- 
 tition is emphatic. It was 
 common enough to be regarded 
 as a compound, and the accent 
 is on the firfl too. — See Aler- 
 chant of Ve?nc€, ii. 6, 42. 
 
 Toffe-pots, XXVI, 95, sb. pL, 
 drunkards. " An aleknight, 
 a tipler, a tofpot, a quaffer, a 
 rinfepicker; ebrioftis, bibulns, 
 bibaxT — Buret's A /vean'e, 1 580. 
 
 Tothor, X, 14, the other. — See 
 Thother. 
 
 Totterd, vi, 13, p.p., torn, 
 tattered. From the old En- 
 glifli to-teared, i.e., torn to 
 pieces, in rags, the prefix to be- 
 ing intenfitive. — See To beate. 
 
 Toyle-fome, x, 30, adj., toilfome, 
 weary. 
 
 Tranie, xv, 5, vb., trane, a cant 
 word to hang. 
 
 Trapt, X, (i, p.p., deckt out; we 
 flill fpeak of horfes' trappings. 
 
 Tray, xii, 12, sb., a mafon's hod 
 for mortar. 
 
 Trayning Cheates, xv, 5, sb. pi., 
 the gallows. 
 
 Tritifolie, xxvi, 87, sb., clover, 
 trefoil. 
 
 Trod, I, 56, sb., path, way, walk. 
 
 Trudging houfe, xv, 53, sb., a 
 bawdy-houfe. " The whore- 
 houfe, which is called a 
 trugging-place. " — D ekker 's Bel- 
 vian of London, 1608. 
 
 Trugge, XV, 14, sb., a proflitute. 
 
 Trulles, iv, 17, sb. pi., loofe 
 women. 
 
 Trunk flop, iv, 32, sb., wide or 
 puffed out breeches. — See 
 Slopp. 
 
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 Glossary. 
 
 Truft, II, 85,/./., involved, rolled Vnrefpe6lleffe, xix, 38, adj.., 
 
 up in, iruffed in. | carelefs, thoughtlefs. 
 
 Tuition, xxvi, 224, sb., keeping, : Vnflayed, vi, 23, p.p., unfettled, 
 
 unfleady. 
 
 Vnthoughted, i, 9, /./., unin- 
 tended, unthought of, une\ 
 pe6led. 
 
 Vntruffe, xii, 12, vb., untie the 
 tagged laces which faflened 
 the breeches to the doublet, 
 hence to eafe onefelf. 
 
 Vntrufl, II, 72, p.p., Avith coat 
 or cloak unfaftened or open. 
 
 Vpright man, xv, 7, sb. — See 
 note. 
 
 Vp-fe freefe, 11, 75, sb., a heavy 
 kind of beer imported from 
 Friefland; a fimilar kind from 
 Holland was called Vpfe-dutch. 
 Cf. " A frolic vp-fe-freeze." — 
 Nalh's Summer's Lajl Wili,&LC. 
 
 Vrchins, xvii, 40, sb. pL, fairies. 
 
 Vfe, VIII, 14, sb., pra6lice. 
 
 Vfe, xxii, 39, z;^.,was accuftomed 
 to, was wont to. 
 
 Vtter, xxv, 11, vb., difpofe of, 
 fell, Hill ufed in the phrafe 
 " to titter counterfeit coin." 
 
 Vtterance, xx, 19, j^., trade, fale. 
 
 Vaine, 11, 33, sb., idle fancy, 
 whim. 
 
 Vaulting-howfe, 11, 84, sb., a 
 brothel. 
 
 Vaut, I, 16, sb., vault, tomb. 
 
 Vayl'd, XXIV, 12, vb.pt.t.^ faluted, 
 took off his hat. 
 
 protedlion; Lat., tueri, to pro- 
 te6l. 
 
 Turned the cocke, xv, 5, opened 
 his heart, confeffed all. 
 
 Turtles, xxiii, 7, sb. pL, turtle- 
 doves. 
 
 Tut, and Tufli, 11, 48, ejaculations 
 of contempt. 
 
 Tutch, II, 61, sb., touch. *' To 
 keep touch" is a proverbial 
 expreffion for " to keep faith, 
 fulfil a promife " — 
 
 ' ' Touch kept is commended, yet credit 
 to keepe, 
 Is paie and difpatch him, er euer ye 
 fleepe." 
 Tuffer, Five Hundred Points, ed. 
 Heritage, 57. 43. 
 
 Twoot, XIV, II, vb., thou wilt, 
 
 thou wifliefl. 
 Tyburne-tiffany, xvi, 4, sb., a 
 
 halter. 
 Tyrd, viii, 14, vb. pt.t., wearied, 
 
 wore out. 
 Tyrewomen, xv, 25, sb. pi., 
 
 tirewomen, milliners, thofe 
 
 who arranged ladies' head- 
 
 dreffes. 
 
 Vmpire, I, 32, vb., mediate, 
 arbitrate. 
 
 Vnfrequent, xxii, 24, adj., un- 
 frequented, deferted. 
 
 Vnh'ear'd, 11, 22, adj., void of 
 hair, beardlefs. 
 
 E 
 
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 Glossary. 
 
 Vayth, XIX, lo, in faith. The Weft 
 
 of England dialectic form. 
 Venery, xv, 49, sb., diffipation 
 
 amongft women. 
 Vented, xxv, 5, p.p., fold, ex- 
 
 pofed for fale. 
 Venter, i, 14, vb. pr.t., rilk, 
 
 venture on. 
 Venter-poynt, 11, 64, sb., a game 
 
 played by children. 
 Verfer, xv, 53, sb., a flang term. 
 
 — See Greene's GhoJI, p. 8. 
 Villaind, xiii, 35, p.p., abufed 
 
 like a villain. 
 Virginals, xxv, 8, sb. pi., an 
 
 oblong fpinnet. — See Tuffer's 
 
 Will in the Introdu6lion to 
 
 the Five Hiaidred Points, &c., 
 
 ed. Herrtage, p. xxx. 
 Vocables, xiv, 19, sb. pi., ftrings 
 
 of words, founding terms. 
 
 Wagmoires, IV, 43, sb. pi, quag- 
 mires, bogs, quickfands; A.S., 
 ctuacian, to fhake, tnir, dirt. 
 
 Waighting, i, ^\,pr.p., waiting. 
 
 Waighting-mayde, iii, 23, sb., 
 waiting maid, attendant. 
 
 Want, XIV, 41, vb,pr.t., arefhort 
 of, fail in. 
 
 Wanteth, xxii, 44, vb. pr.t, is 
 without. 
 
 Wants, xxiii, 19, vb. pr.t., is 
 wanting, is lacking. 
 
 Wapp, XV, ^,vb.,futtio. "Will you 
 wapp for a wyn, or tranie for 
 
 a make," i.e., will you lie for a 
 penny, or hang for a halfpenny. 
 
 Wafted, XXIV, 16, p.p., waifted, 
 i.e., having a waift. 
 
 Weaneling, xix, 28, sb., child 
 juft weaned. 
 
 Weaners, xxiii, 26, sb. pi., 
 read weauers. 
 
 Wearied, iv, zZ^p.p., worried. 
 
 Weart, xix, 20, vb. pt.t., were it, 
 even though it were. 
 
 Weathers, i, 36, sb. pL, fheep, 
 rams; A.S., tveder. 
 
 Weed, I, 51, sb., drefs. Still 
 kept up in the expreflion, 
 " widow's-7£'(?(f^j'. 
 
 Weene, xxii, 22, vb.pr.t., believe, 
 think, are fure. 
 
 Welting, II, 54, vb.pr.p., fringing, 
 hemming, bordering. 
 
 Weltring, xxvi, 77, vb. pr.p., 
 weltering, being rolled, toffed, 
 tumbled. 
 
 Wens-worth, xi, 7, Wandfworth. 
 
 Wheer's, 11, 18, for, where his. 
 
 Whereas, xxii, 21, adv., where. 
 
 Whift, XVII, 21, vb. pt.t., fent out 
 puffs of fmoke. 
 
 Whip-iacke, xv, 15, ^<^. "A 
 Whypiackeisonethat bycoulor 
 of a counterfaite Lifence, 
 (which they call a Gybe, and 
 the feales they call larckes) 
 doth vfe to beg lyke a Maryner, 
 But hys chiefeft trade is to rob 
 Bowthes in a Faire, or to pilfer 
 
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 Glossary. 
 
 ware from flaules, which they 
 cal heauing of the Bowth." 
 — Awdeley on Vagabonds, 
 p. 4. 
 
 Whiffell, XXIII, 4, z'^./r./.,whifl.le. 
 
 Whole, VIII, 10, adv., wholly, 
 entirely. 
 
 Whooted, XV, 35, 70. //./., hooted, 
 fliouted. 
 
 Whord, XV, 53, vb., hoard. 
 
 Wild, VIII, 2\,p.p., willed, deter- 
 mined. 
 
 Wilie beguily, iv, 29, the biter 
 bitten. — See note. 
 
 Wincke, 11, 5, vb. i?nj>er., wink, 
 pafs over. 
 
 Witcraft, iv, 24, sb., the art of 
 wit, logic, ufe of one's brains. 
 
 Withers greife, xiv, 44, sb., in- 
 flammation of the ivithers or 
 fpace between the flioulder- 
 bones and the bottom of the 
 neck of a horfe. 
 
 Witneffe, 1,23, z'i^., bear witnefs to. 
 
 WittoU, xiii, 31, ^^., a contented 
 cuckold — 
 
 ' ' This honefl man was dubbed amongft 
 
 them a zuittall.^' 
 Tom Tell Trothe, ed. Furnivall, p. 13, 
 
 1. 17. 
 
 Won, III, 15, Won, v, 38, adj., 
 
 one. 
 Wonted, i, 5, vb. pl.t., was wont 
 
 to; A.S., iviinian. 
 Woodcocks, XII, 2 2,^1^., woodcock 
 
 is proverbial for a foolilh bird, 
 
 hence a fimpleton. 
 
 Woollward, 11, 72, adj., without 
 any linen next the body. The 
 term occurs in P. Plowman, 
 ed. Skeat, B. Text, Paffas, 
 xviii. I. 
 
 Woot, XIV, 12, vb. pr.t. — See 
 Twoot. 
 
 Worfer-fort, vi, 7, sb., rabble, 
 dregs. 
 
 Wracke, i, 4, sb., wreck. 
 
 Wrefl, XXVII, 52, sb., refl for fpear 
 or lance. 
 
 Wright, XIV, 5, vb., write. 
 
 Wrong, I, 17,/./., wrung. 
 
 Wyn, XV, 5, sb., a penny. 
 
 Yawle, XV, 8, vb., howl, yelp. 
 
 Yearth, i, 44, sb., the earth. 
 
 YelloAves, xiv, 44, sb., a diforder 
 in horfes. 
 
 Ynckehorne, 11, 21, sb., an ink- 
 fland. To ink-horn is to 
 ufe fine words or fludied ex- 
 preffionsj thus Cotgrave gives 
 " Ef conker le Latin: To ink- 
 hornize it, or vfe inkhorn 
 tearmes," See alfo 11, (>2,. 
 
 Youle, XXVI, 264, you will. 
 
 Ytche, X, 12, sb., itch. 
 
 Xpians, I, 25, sb., a Chrillian, 
 from the facred monogram 
 ]^=Chr: the initial letters 
 of Chrift. 
 
 ZowNES, II, 72, an oath. See 
 Swones. 
 
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