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<P>AN EPITOME OF THE WORLDS <HI>WOE,</HI> Wherein is per&s;picuou&s;ly di&s;|couered; the lamentable mi&s;eries of the World, in the&s;e tempe&s;tu|ous times, the infidelitie of fained friends, and the ficklene&s;&s;e of de|ceitefull fortune.</P>
<P>Continued by way of Meditation and Re&s;olution.</P>
<P>By GEO. DICHANTE, Gent.</P>
<Q>&Asagr;&pgr;&agr;&ngr;&tgr;&egr; &esmogr;&ngr; &thgr;&agr;&lgr;&aacugr;&sfgr;&sfgr;&eegr; &kgr;&agr;&kgr;&ogr;&ucirgr; &pgr;&lgr;&eacugr;&ogr;&mgr;&eegr;&ngr;.</Q>
<Q><L>All we (poore Mortals) wade again&s;t our will,</L>
<L>In waues of woe, and Seas of &s;urging ill.</L></Q>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by <HI>Thomas Cotes,</HI> and <HI>Richard Cotes,</HI> 1630</P>
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<HEAD>THE VVOE OF THE WORLD.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>HEauen's high director, and <HI>Olympus</HI> King,</L>
<L>Who&s;e power doth guid, &amp; gouerne euery thing</L>
<L>Who&s;e ble&s;&s;ed bounty doth extend to all,</L>
<L>Who&s;e wealth &s;upplyes each want in generall.</L>
<L><HI>Supply my wants,</HI> Great God! thou map of meekne&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>And let thy power be perfect in my weakene&s;&s;e:</L>
<L>Oh helpe me to divulge, in the&s;e weake times,</L>
<L>The vainne&s;&s;e, and vexation of the&s;e times.</L>
<L>In&s;pire my Mu&s;e, &s;he truely may explaine,</L>
<L>The woes that in this wicked world do raigne:</L>
<L>For at the Altar of thy holy <HI>Will,</HI></L>
<L>My Mu&s;e doth offer vp her Incen&s;e &s;till:</L>
<L>And all the faculties remaine in me</L>
<L>I will addre&s;&s;e and con&s;ecrate to thee.</L>
<L>Tis in thy power to rectifie each wrong,</L>
<L>Oh guide me then, and go with me along:</L>
<L>Grant what I write, within this tedious &s;tory</L>
<L>May to all's good redound, and to thy Glory.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
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<L>Since that &s;ame &s;ea&s;on wherein I was borne,</L>
<L>(By &s;inne originall) a wretch forlorne:</L>
<L>The&s;e eyes and eares of mine haue knowne (though young)</L>
<L>Woes; cannot be expre&s;t by pen, nor tongue.</L>
<L>For I prote&s;t (yet many thinke not &s;o)</L>
<L>I haue beene witne&s;&s;e to a world of Woe.</L>
<L>Neere in my life as yet that I could tell;</L>
<L>One intire day remaind I perfect well.</L>
<L>But various pa&s;&s;ions, &s;till were repre&s;ented,</L>
<L>Sometimes well-plea&s;ed, &s;traightway male-contented</L>
<L>Sometimes fre&s;h ioy, did ouer ioy my heart;</L>
<L>Anone I was po&s;&s;e&s;t with pangs of &s;mart:</L>
<L>And when &s;ome ouerflowe of fickle Fate,</L>
<L>Had fild my bodies bankes with bli&s;&s;e or State,</L>
<L>The ebbe of that within a little &s;pace,</L>
<L>Hath left me in a wor&s;e, and weaker ca&s;e:</L>
<L>And &s;eeing thus my ioyes to ebbe and flowe,</L>
<L>With lofty Surges fir&s;t, and then &s;inke lowe.</L>
<L>Leauing the top-full bankes of bli&s;&s;e all dry,</L>
<L>Oh what a wicked world is here (thought I)</L>
<L>Where nothing's firme, but all I here e&s;pie,</L>
<L>Of &s;ublunary Subiects, liue to die.</L>
<L>What mortall then, that with the eye of wit?</L>
<L>De&s;cends into the world, but &s;ees that it,</L>
<L>Containeth little that is good within,</L>
<L>For tis a nur&s;e of vice, a &s;inke of &s;inne:</L>
<L>A Laborinth of labour, gins, and guiles:</L>
<L>A &s;acke of &s;orrowes, wickedne&s;&s;e and wiles.</L>
<L>And In my &s;elfe though all the&s;e woes I &s;ee,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span"> &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">ll as me</L>
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<L>Each man a little world containes within,</L>
<L>A true <HI>compendium</HI> of the great worlds &s;inne:</L>
<L>Where <HI>Rea&s;on</HI> as the <HI>Prince&s;&s;e</HI> highe&s;t &s;its,</L>
<L>In the bed-chamber of the <HI>Bodies</HI> wits,</L>
<L>The <HI>Sences</HI> are <HI>Attendants</HI> on the Court,</L>
<L>Without who&s;e aide nought pa&s;&s;es through the port.</L>
<L>The &s;upreame powers, as <HI>Memory</HI> and <HI>Will,</HI></L>
<L>They are the <HI>Peeres,</HI> retaining good or ill:</L>
<L>The <HI>Parts</HI> exterior, and interne Affections</L>
<L>Are <HI>Commons</HI> that relye o'th <HI>Peers</HI> protection.</L>
<L>Then violent <HI>Pa&s;&s;ions</HI> that (there) will not cea&s;e</L>
<L>Are ba&s;e <HI>Di&s;turbers</HI> of the Common peace.</L>
<L>And as one <HI>Pa&s;&s;ion</HI> is anothers doore</L>
<L>Wherein may enter more and more:</L>
<L>So re&s;tle&s;&s;e Woes continually make roome,</L>
<L>Whereby another Woe may likewi&s;e come;</L>
<L>Which dumps and dolors do &s;o terrifie me,</L>
<L>And &s;ors my &s;ences, that no ioy comes nigh me:</L>
<L>For the great griefes, that gaule me euery day,</L>
<L>Surpriz<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> my comfort, banni&s;h bli&s;&s;e away.</L>
<L>I am no <HI>Stoicke</HI> that no pa&s;&s;ions loue,</L>
<L>Who&s;e mindes at neither mirth nor &s;orrow moue:</L>
<L>The&s;e Stocke conceits do truly repre&s;ent,</L>
<L>The ouerthrow of inward gouernment.</L>
<L>But as a Chri&s;tian heart my God me gaue,</L>
<L>So I'<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters"> take care to order all I haue.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Then tell, what mortall euer yet could &s;ay,</L>
<L>His ioy was con&s;tant &s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ll a compleate day:</L>
<L>Yet true it is that many men haue &s;pent,</L>
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<L>But con&s;tantly if it endur'd a day,</L>
<L>And was not crackt by &s;orrow neere away:</L>
<L>That griefe and ioy &s;o long hath kept a &s;under,</L>
<L>I will record it for a worldly wonder.</L>
<L>No, no, the world is meerely all but vaine,</L>
<L>And her be&s;t plea&s;ures turne to bitter paine:</L>
<L>For though ioy tary &s;trangely for an houre,</L>
<L>Tis &s;oone con&s;um'd by care, and &s;orrow &s;owre.</L>
<L>Whence I extract (which euery one &s;ayes plaine)</L>
<L>That plea&s;ures period, is a pa&s;&s;e to paine;</L>
<L>That ioy and gladne&s;&s;e take their turnes about,</L>
<L>And when the one is in, the others out.</L>
<L>So that in neither, ther's a &s;table &s;tation,</L>
<L>But when its &s;orrowes Terme, it's ioyes Vacation.</L>
<L>The Poets faine, there was betwixt tho&s;e two,</L>
<L>A great di&s;&s;ention, and a deale to doo;</L>
<L>Which twix't them &s;elues could not he pacifi'd,</L>
<L>But they mu&s;t go to <HI>Iupiter</HI> to tride,</L>
<L>And he all meanes, and motions too did trie,</L>
<L>The variant to reduce to amity.</L>
<L>But when he fee his paines had fruitle&s;&s;e proou'd,</L>
<L>And that their malice could not be remoou'd:</L>
<L>To venge him&s;elfe, and curbe the&s;e &s;olmne &s;ots,</L>
<L>He bound them in, indi&s;&s;oluble knots;</L>
<L>And chan'd them fa&s;t, withall decreed &s;o,</L>
<L>The&s;e two in&s;eperate for ere &s;hould go.</L>
<L>Then tis no wonder that they do &s;urprize</L>
<L>Men in this manner with their mi&s;eries:</L>
<L>For euery man hath &s;ure his turne of &s;orrow,</L>
<L>f glad to day, he's &s;ure of griefe to morrow.</L>
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<L>So thus is mankind with their mi&s;cheefes cro&s;t,</L>
<L>One day payes dolor, that another lo&s;t:</L>
<L>I neuer yet with any did remaine,</L>
<L>But euer he of &s;omething did complaine.</L>
<L>If Rich, then to augment his &s;tate and &s;tore,</L>
<L>He would take care to &s;crape and gape for more;</L>
<L>If poore and nipt with pinching pennurie,</L>
<L>He then mu&s;t care to ea&s;e his mi&s;erie.</L>
<L>When <HI>Salomon</HI> the Mirror of true wit,</L>
<L>Had all experience man could haue of it;</L>
<L>And for his plea&s;ure Orchards daily planted,</L>
<L>Made fi&s;h-ponds, craued nought, but it was granted.</L>
<L>Had men and women-&s;eruants borne and breed,</L>
<L>within his hou&s;e, and there were nouri&s;hed:</L>
<L>Had &s;tately buildings, co&s;tly gemmes and things,</L>
<L>As pre&s;ents &s;ent from Emperors and Kings.</L>
<L>Bdellium, Ophir gold, all kind of wood,</L>
<L>Gold, Siluer, Frankincen&s;e, and all was good:</L>
<L>Nay to be briefe, all &s;olace he had &s;ent,</L>
<L>Could plea&s;e the eye, or giue the heart content;</L>
<L>Yet did he deeply (lothing them) complaine,</L>
<L>And &s;aid, <HI>The world and all is vaine.</HI></L>
<L>So let men giue their hearts to glut in plea&s;ures,</L>
<L>To hoord vp Riches, Iewels, Gems, and trea&s;ures:</L>
<L>Yet in the end with him they will complaine,</L>
<L>And truely &s;ay, <HI>The world and all is vaine.</HI></L>
<L>But di&s;content and hunting &s;till for more,</L>
<L>Not &s;atisfi'd with good enough before:</L>
<L>Men fa&s;t pur&s;ue to be of all po&s;&s;e&s;t,</L>
<L>And till their race be runne can neuer re&s;t.</L>
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<L>Which woe indures and the furies fell,</L>
<L>Makes vs thinke earth to be a &s;econd hell.</L>
<L>Then cannot this be mended? yes, in &s;tore,</L>
<L>God hath laid vp a Salue for euery &s;ore:</L>
<L>And the be&s;t Medicine that I finde is this</L>
<L>If any in his Baine would looke for ble&s;&s;e:</L>
<L>When woe and &s;orrow come, I do not care for't</L>
<L>Becau&s;e before it come I am prepar'd for't:</L>
<L>And when tis come (for to di&s;ge&s;t the &s;mart)</L>
<L>Ile freely welcome woe with all my heart;</L>
<L>But when it goes (it's bitterne&s;&s;e to quell</L>
<L>I looke for't more and bid but halfe, Farewell.</L>
<L>So that in Mirth I maladies do feare;</L>
<L>And in my care I know that comfort's neere.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Oh that my eyes could &s;hed a &s;ea of Teares</L>
<L>For to lament our vnlamented yeeres;</L>
<L>Or could but with my weake and weary &s;traine</L>
<L>Beate all the&s;e mi&s;chiefes into Mortals buaine:</L>
<L>Then &s;ure &s;ome veiwing of its Mi&s;ery</L>
<L>Would ca&s;t all care a&s;ide, and learne to dye;</L>
<L>Leaue of all worldly loue, make preparation,</L>
<L>As here he had but one houres habitation.</L>
<L>I do not care (my Minde was neuer &s;uch)</L>
<L>Whether I be endow'd with little or much;</L>
<L>If little, my account &s;hall be but &s;mall,</L>
<L>How I'ue di&s;po&s;ed of this little all:</L>
<L>If much (no Auarice gain&s;t me hath &s;tood,</L>
<L>But I may grant it to the needies good.</L>
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<LG>
<L>And for my part I will confe&s;&s;e that I,</L>
<L>Am very young yet old enough to die.</L>
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<L>If that the de&s;tinies had decreed it &s;o,</L>
<L>I had beene well content that gate to go:</L>
<L>Then had I beene &s;ecure from &s;inning more,</L>
<L>And pa&s;t the perill of the pikes before.</L>
<L>But &s;ince it &s;tands thus with his holy plea&s;ure,</L>
<L>That to repent, I haue the times ley&s;ure:</L>
<L>My Times, at all times like a carefull man,</L>
<L>Ile make the be&s;t v&s;e of it that I can.</L>
<L>But as for <HI>Fortune</HI> and all worldly care,</L>
<L>That daily on this world do make repaire,</L>
<L>I'ue &s;uch an Antidote laid vp in &s;tore,</L>
<L>As that her hornes &s;hall neuer hurt me more:</L>
<L>For <HI>Patience</HI> &s;hall arme my body &s;till,</L>
<L>To beare the burthen of her good or ill.</L>
<L>My minde &s;hall meditate on that alway,</L>
<L>That prudent <HI>Pompey</HI> v&s;ed oft to &s;ay:</L>
<L>My friends (quoth he) we haue but little cau&s;e,</L>
<L>To tru&s;t <HI>Fates</HI> flatterings, and vaine applau&s;e:</L>
<L>For by experience I haue prou'd it true,</L>
<L>(My former &s;tate I know was knowne to you)</L>
<L>How the Emperiall Rule I once did gaine,</L>
<L>Before I lookt for or ere wi&s;ht the &s;ame;</L>
<L>And on a &s;uddaine euery one might &s;ee</L>
<L>Twas &s;narcht away, and taken quite from me.</L>
<L>When I a Mighty Monarch reigned in <HI>Rome,</HI></L>
<L>Secure (as then I dreamd) from Care to come;</L>
<L>And climing to attaine the top of all,</L>
<L>I was depo&s;ed, and cought this feate full fall.</L>
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<L>So <HI>Senecca</HI> (when bani&s;hed from <HI>Rome,</HI></L>
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<L>Vnto his mother <HI>Altine</HI> wrote a letter,</L>
<L>That &s;he might beare his bani&s;hment the better.</L>
<L>(Mother &s;aid he) I n'ere gaue credit to,</L>
<L>Or tru&s;ted Fortunes &s;limme and &s;ubtle &s;how</L>
<L>Although 'twixt me and her did often grow,</L>
<L>Great friendline&s;&s;e, 'twas fild with fraud I know.</L>
<L>For when &s;he did con&s;ent to ought I did,</L>
<L>If any peace or prai&s;e in it lay hid:</L>
<L>I knew &s;he did not pitty me at all,</L>
<L>But rais'd me high, to take the greater fall.</L>
<L>So by her liberality what's &s;ent,</L>
<L>Riches, or Honor, I accompt them lent.</L>
<L>All promi&s;es that &s;he doth proffer me,</L>
<L>The plea&s;ures, wealth, or what pro&s;perity,</L>
<L>I lay it by within my hou&s;e by't &s;elfe,</L>
<L>Looking each houre to lo&s;e that la&s;tle&s;&s;e pelfe.</L>
<L>And it doth n'ere my mind at all affright,</L>
<L>Whether &s;he tak't away by day or night:</L>
<L>Ile n'ere lament nor wander &s;till in woe,</L>
<L>But as it came, Ile freely let it goe.</L>
<L>Whence this we &s;ee, the prudent and the wi&s;e.</L>
<L>Will not pre&s;ume &s;till on good happ to ri&s;e:</L>
<L>Nor all her ficklene&s;&s;e e&s;teeme a haire,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e before a change they do prepare.</L>
<L>Yet if I might elect I'd rather buy</L>
<L>Her Amity, then wofull Enmity;</L>
<L>And when I'ue lo&s;t wherewith &s;he did relieue me,</L>
<L>Then let her take it, it &s;hall neuer greeue me.</L>
<L>Let her take all I haue, burn't in the fire,</L>
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<L>And giue it to &s;ome mon&s;ter, or a man,</L>
<L>V&s;e all extremities &s;he will or can;</L>
<L>Yet &s;hall not this, nay nor a further &s;mart,</L>
<L>Produce a &s;igh, or euer greeue my heart.</L>
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<LG>
<L>We read that <HI>Philip Macedon</HI> likewi&s;e,</L>
<L>When he heard tell of three great victories:</L>
<L>Straight kneeled down with folded palmes to'th skies</L>
<L>And vnto heauen lifting vp his eyes</L>
<L>Vtter'd the&s;e words; Oh cruell Fates (quoth he)</L>
<L>And gratious, gods, after pro&s;peritie</L>
<L>I humbly pray you you will be content</L>
<L>To moderate my future cha&s;ti&s;ement:</L>
<L>And let it not be a &s;ad introduction.</L>
<L>Of my great ruine, or my dire de&s;truction:</L>
<L>For I am certaine, that &s;uch flowes are vaine,</L>
<L>And after plea&s;ure will in&s;ue my paine.</L>
<L>All which examples, truely &s;hould be noted</L>
<L>And in our memories well writ and quoted:</L>
<L>That midditating on them we may know,</L>
<L>How little tru&s;t to fortune we do owe:</L>
<L>How much we haue to tru&s;t the flattering &s;trife,</L>
<L>And fawning happine&s;&s;es of this life;</L>
<L>For we not taking heed of after claps.</L>
<L>Fall vnawares in number of mi&s;haps.</L>
<L>Yea, if it fortune that &s;ome time we find,</L>
<L>Plea&s;ures, and great contentments to our mind:</L>
<L>Then paine his penalty, for plea&s;ure doubles,</L>
<L>And vs ou'r whelmeth, in a gulfe of troubles.</L>
<L>So like right worldlings, thinking for to hold,</L>
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<L>In &s;pight of <HI>Fortune</HI> and her nimble lets,</L>
<L>We're trapt and toyled in misfortunes Nets:</L>
<L>Such is our folly, when we hauing got,</L>
<L>Some bauins blaze of bli&s;&s;e, or little lot:</L>
<L>Our Wits by much pre&s;uming on that fate,</L>
<L>Are c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ptiuate and drown'd in &s;elfe conceit.</L>
<L>So we become (by running thus a&s;tray)</L>
<L>(To froward Fortune, and ill hap) a pray.</L>
<L>O traiterous world, which for a little &s;pace,</L>
<L>Do&s;t flatter fawne, and &s;mile on vs apace;</L>
<L>And quickly in the twinkling of an eye,</L>
<L>Bereaues vs of our ioyes and dignitie:</L>
<L>Thou giue&s;t vs occa&s;ion to be glad,</L>
<L>And after makes vs dolefull, heauy, &s;ad.</L>
<L>Now thou aduances, and extols vs hie,</L>
<L>Then throwes vs downe, and makes vs lowly lie.</L>
<L>But oh ba&s;e world, how can we &s;cape thy gins?</L>
<L>Or liuing here extenuate our &s;innes.</L>
<L>For why, the more thou knowes a man is glorious</L>
<L>And by's a&s;piring &s;eekes to be notorious;</L>
<L>To fit his chaps for him thou do&s;t prouide,</L>
<L>Riches, Honor, and many things be&s;ide:</L>
<L>As Beauteous Women, I and dainty fare,</L>
<L>That he may &s;urfeit on them wtthout care.</L>
<L>But after all the&s;e wi&s;hed ioyes, and plea&s;ures,</L>
<L>Great dignities, and many precious Trea&s;ures;</L>
<L>Euen as a bate is for the Fi&s;hes &s;et,</L>
<L>So are we taken in vaine plea&s;ures net.</L>
<L>But as for worldly and the&s;e tough Temptations)</L>
<L>(Pre&s;ented to vs for our iu&s;t probations)</L>
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<L>They make vs thinkt, vnpo&s;&s;ible ere Fate,</L>
<L>Should Metamorpho&s;e &s;uch a &s;etled State:</L>
<L>Which hardens vs in them to take delight.</L>
<L>And practi&s;e nought but plea&s;ures day and night.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Yet I would haue one that's affectionate</L>
<L>Vnto the worldly plea&s;ures, pompe, and &s;tate,</L>
<L>Or loues it mo&s;t, To tell me by his wit</L>
<L>What recompences, or what benefit</L>
<L>After the world deceiues them, they can reape;</L>
<L>Nought but Laments, and for their lu&s;t to weepe,</L>
<L>I'ue knowne great dolors, griefe, and lamentations,</L>
<L>In many hou&s;es, where's beene exultations,</L>
<L>And many ioyes before, in worldly &s;tate,</L>
<L>That haue their lo&s;&s;e lamented too too late.</L>
<L>But thinke, the world rewards vs &s;till with euill,</L>
<L>And ruines good things like a demy-deuill:</L>
<L>Tis Vertues Tyrant, enemy to peace,</L>
<L>For ba&s;e commotions neuer in't will cea&s;e:</L>
<L>Errors maintainer, and a freind to warres,</L>
<L>This Souldiers te&s;tifie, when &s;courg'd with skarres:</L>
<L>A graue of ignorance, a field of folly,</L>
<L>That &s;howes vs mirth, yet &s;tor'd with melancholy,</L>
<L>Cur&s;t Cares Charibdes, and a dangerous deepe,</L>
<L>Wherein the godly many cro&s;&s;es reape:</L>
<L>A very Scilla wherein our de&s;ires,</L>
<L>Do al&s;o peri&s;h with vaine lucres fires.</L>
<L>For the ba&s;e vulger makes no accompt of them,</L>
<L>That merit well, or &s;prung of Noble Stem:</L>
<L>But tho&s;e that can &s;upport and maintaine plea&s;ures,</L>
<L>And onely wade in wealth and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="3 letters">da<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ie trea&s;ures</L>
<PB REF="8">
<L>When the&s;e bereft of liuing and of &s;tate,</L>
<L>Do cur&s;e their birth-day, and the faith of fate.</L>
<L>Yet &s;till the ba&s;e broode, ca&s;t a &s;emblance &s;owre,</L>
<L>Vpon good qualities, if they be poore:</L>
<L>When they fond clues, his out&s;ide onely &s;ee,</L>
<L>And braue apparell, without hone&s;tie:</L>
<L>But care not for all qualities a pin,</L>
<L>Nor the &s;weete gifts that he retaines within.</L>
<L>When the be&s;t Clearkes, did often on it vant,</L>
<L>And bani&s;ht <HI>Opulence</HI> to line in want:</L>
<L>As <HI>Bias</HI> carried all his wealth about,</L>
<L>And dog'd <HI>Diogenes</HI> lay in's Tub without;</L>
<L>Poore <HI>Irus, Codrus,</HI> and a many moe,</L>
<L>That &s;ought things firme, and let the fickle goe.</L>
<L>For plaine experience let the&s;e learned &s;ee,</L>
<L>Want is the Mi&s;tre&s;&s;e of Philo&s;ophie.</L>
<L>Their skill and learning told them this for &s;ure,</L>
<L>That riches and preferment would not dure;</L>
<L>But vertues lu&s;tre la&s;teth during breath,</L>
<L>And makes our name Immortall after death.</L>
<L>This &s;hould be apprehended of the wi&s;e,</L>
<L>Though they &s;eeme &s;ordid in the vulgers eyes.</L>
<L>Their iudgements fallible, and comes not neare,</L>
<L>The true in&s;ight, but iudge as things appeare;</L>
<L>When wi&s;edome alway doth of things take heede,</L>
<L>Not as they &s;eeme, but as they be indeed.</L>
<L>So &s;till the noble &s;triue for to &s;urmount,</L>
<L>The <HI>Pedants</HI> cen&s;ure and the vulgers count.</L>
<L>For when the brittle &s;tate of things they &s;ee,</L>
<L>And wh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters"> &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">ll <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">old <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="3 words"></L>
<PB REF="8">
<L>They cleaue to that, which brings perpetuall gaine,</L>
<L>And makes men without ruine long to raigne;</L>
<L>But not of riches, friends, or lands to boa&s;t,</L>
<L>That long a gathering are, and &s;oone are lo&s;t:</L>
<L>Nor great ones loues, for like the <HI>Scithian</HI> floure,</L>
<L>Their fauours fade, or flouri&s;h in an houre.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Did not Aegyptian <HI>Ptholomie</HI> affect,</L>
<L><HI>Ew&s;enides</HI> with honor and re&s;pect:</L>
<L>That what he &s;pake (though he prou'd but a Daw)</L>
<L>It was reputed for a la&s;ting law:</L>
<L>In&s;tal'd in offices, and finally,</L>
<L>He waxt mo&s;t opulent, and proud thereby;</L>
<L>Reioycing greatly in his happy fate,</L>
<L>He boa&s;tingly one time &s;aid to his mate.</L>
<L>The King no more can attribute to me,</L>
<L>Then the &s;ole rule of all his Monarchie:</L>
<L>Who an&s;wer'd (Sir) be not deceiu'd, thinke how</L>
<L>The Fate that gau't, can tak't againe from you;</L>
<L>And that would prooue (to your eternall &s;trife)</L>
<L>The &s;adde&s;t day you ere had in your life.</L>
<L>Short after <HI>Ptholomie</HI> did him e&s;pie,</L>
<L>Talking with women very wantonly</L>
<L>Whom he affected; <HI>Ptolomia</HI> anon,</L>
<L>Caus'd all the women poy&s;on drinke vpon:</L>
<L>Ber<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ft <HI>Ew&s;enides</HI> of all's e&s;tate,</L>
<L>And la&s;tly hang'd him on the Portall gate.</L>
<L>So by <HI>Senerus, Plancina</HI> was promoted,</L>
<L>Till in his too much dignity he doted:</L>
<L>For checking of his Princes elde&s;t &s;onne,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<PB REF="9">
<L>Then <HI>Commodus</HI> his man <HI>Cleander</HI> lou'd,</L>
<L>Who&s;e loue a long time, could not be remoou'd,</L>
<L>For he was wi&s;e, yet auarous and greedy,</L>
<L>(And often times the&s;e proue but little &s;peedy.)</L>
<L>For when the Souldiers with a warrant came,</L>
<L>To aske their pay, he did deny the &s;ame</L>
<L>Though &s;ealed with the Signet of the King.</L>
<L>And when the Souldiers did relate the thing,</L>
<L>For contradiction of the Kings command,</L>
<L>He ha&s;tily was hanged out of hand;</L>
<L>His goods confi&s;cate, and his noble name,</L>
<L>Togither with his life, did end in &s;hame.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Con&s;tantius</HI> to <HI>Horten&s;ius</HI> had a fauour,</L>
<L>And deerely lou'd him for his good behauiour:</L>
<L>As one, on whom rely'd his chiefe protection,</L>
<L>All his affaires were done by his direction.</L>
<L>Yet when the King receiu'd intelligence,</L>
<L>He was the <HI>Auth<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">r</HI> of a foule offence</L>
<L>Did touch his per&s;on; &s;traight way for the deed,</L>
<L>He was adiudged for to lo&s;e his head.</L>
<L>Nay and a number I could mention heere,</L>
<L>Who in great loue and e&s;timation were:</L>
<L>Yet for &s;uch triuiall faults were done to death,</L>
<L>And all their ble&s;&s;ings bla&s;ted with their breath.</L>
<L>Great <HI>Alexander</HI> in his angry mood,</L>
<L>Slewe <HI>Carterus,</HI> and ba&s;ely &s;hed his blood.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Though <HI>Cincinnatus</HI> was <HI>Bittillons</HI> friend,</L>
<L>Yet was <HI>Bittilion, Cincinnatus</HI> end:</L>
<L>So in mens fauours there's no con&s;tancy,</L>
<L>For changes come ith <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">ling of an eye</L>
<PB REF="9">
<L>And if from ancient Stories we de&s;cend,</L>
<L>To moderne acts, and marke the timele&s;&s;e end</L>
<L>Of Fauorites, here I truely might infold,</L>
<L>More pre&s;idents, then all this booke can hold.</L>
<L>The&s;e repre&s;ent to our meditations,</L>
<L>Liuely illu&s;trate, this worlds alterations:</L>
<L>And that there is no minute, hour, nor day,</L>
<L>But Woe and Gladne&s;&s;e, alter &s;till their &s;tay:</L>
<L>For which &s;age <HI>Solons</HI> &s;peeches I commend,</L>
<L>And &s;ay, <HI>No man is happy, till his end.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Another greefe to make my woe amends,</L>
<L>Doth torture me, and that is faithle&s;&s;e friends:</L>
<L>Who when they &s;ee &s;ome poore &s;ini&s;ter puffe</L>
<L>Of Fate, a&s;&s;ault a friend; Oh! thats enough,</L>
<L>And cau&s;es good they haue, then to reiect him,</L>
<L>Leaue him to helpe him&s;elfe they'le not re&s;pect him.</L>
<L>Some of this &s;tampe I haue, but &s;ure not many,</L>
<L>But of that crew I wi&s;h I had not any.</L>
<L>For in a little triall, I haue found,</L>
<L>Their bounties backward, &amp; their hearts hide-bound,</L>
<L>When friends affliction, puts them to the touch,</L>
<L>Then little helpe, or heart is &s;howne from &s;uch.</L>
<L>Yet farre be it, our con&s;anguinitie,</L>
<L>Should with vnnaturall affinitie,</L>
<L>Be cloyed thus, though &s;ome there be thats ill,</L>
<L>Yet I haue others, that prooue hone&s;t &s;till:</L>
<L>And for their parts, thus much I'le boldly &s;ay,</L>
<L>For no aduer&s;ity they'le turne away.</L>
<L>But for the fir&s;t, all goodne&s;&s;e doth for&s;ake them,</L>
<L>Whom God amend or <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<PB REF="10">
<L>For as their hearts are hardned to do ill,</L>
<L>So are their hands to propagate their will;</L>
<L>Their infamy and names I might haue noted,</L>
<L>And all their malice in the margent quoted:</L>
<L>But for my pre&s;ent ea&s;e, I will forbeare,</L>
<L>And pre&s;&s;e them in another place then here.</L>
<L>They are forwarned now, and I prote&s;t,</L>
<L>Though they &s;cape hanging yet they &s;hall be pre&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For he indeed ought to be term'd a friend,</L>
<L>who&s;e loue and aide la&s;t firme vnto the end:</L>
<L>That willingly doth offer with his heart,</L>
<L>Of a poore penny to his friend a part;</L>
<L>And willingly &s;upplies what he doth lacke,</L>
<L>Meate for his mouth, and cloathing for his backe:</L>
<L>Doth &s;uccor him before he asketh aide,</L>
<L>And's fixed to him when all others fade.</L>
<L>For this is true (none dare I thinke deny it)</L>
<L>To beg a thing of friend&s;hip is to buy it:</L>
<L>And &s;uch as in mens mi&s;eries for&s;ake them,</L>
<L>They're mon&s;ters made of men, what can you make them.</L>
<L>For while that happy fortune doth in &s;ue</L>
<L>Friends grow, then reckon them, you'l finde enough.</L>
<L>There's goodman get-all, and my neighbour <HI>Iane,</HI></L>
<L>Mu&s;t needes be &s;ent for vnto gratious Lane:</L>
<L>She's very hone&s;t, and I meane to meete</L>
<L>Her (as &s;he promis't me) in Gracious &s;treete:</L>
<L>But laui&s;ht out, and you &s;hall &s;ee this rag-taile,</L>
<L>Where there no Gold-Finch is, will proue a Wagtaile</L>
<L>Then goodman get-all, and long <HI>Iane</HI> the Iade,</L>
<L>Will cur<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">e your pouerty like mi&s;tri&s;&s;e <HI>Blade.</HI></L>
<PB REF="10">
<L>And they are Iewes that haue a friend indeed</L>
<L>Indued with vertues, though he be in need,</L>
<L>And do re&s;traine their hands, and then for&s;ake him,</L>
<L>When as their furtherance might marre or make him.</L>
<L>For can a man, that truly is po&s;&s;e&s;t,</L>
<L>Of vertuous ornaments within his bre&s;t?</L>
<L>Can he I &s;ay long want, or &s;tand in need,</L>
<L>Though for a time his hopes be buried?</L>
<L>No, he'l be &s;till releeu'd, each noble heart,</L>
<L>(If friends vnwilling prooue) wil &s;o&s;ter Art.</L>
<L>For as the &s;unne when &s;ome ob&s;curing cloud,</L>
<L>Doth in her bo&s;ome all her &s;plendor &s;hroud:</L>
<L>Though thus I &s;ay, he &s;hroud it from our &s;ight,</L>
<L>Yet can he not extenuate his light.</L>
<L>So when a Wi&s;e man &s;eemes to &s;uffer need,</L>
<L>And cloudy want doth make his vertues dead</L>
<L>For a &s;mall time; that broke and vani&s;ht quite,</L>
<L>Then doth his &s;plendor &s;hine through's learned light:</L>
<L>And a true friend will neuer during breath,</L>
<L>For&s;ake his friend for feare of paine or death.</L>
<L>Nay after death he will lament the end,</L>
<L>Of &s;uch a loyall and a louing friend:</L>
<L>And in the world there's not, nor cannot be,</L>
<L>More perfect loue (then this) and amitie;</L>
<L>That's, for a friend no perils to for&s;ake,</L>
<L>May for the furtherance of his matters make.</L>
<L>This cau&s;ed <HI>Plato</HI> often take his way,</L>
<L>From learned <HI>Athens</HI> to <HI>Sicilia:</HI></L>
<L>And for no other end but looke vpon,</L>
<L>His true and tru&s;ty louer <HI>Phocion.</HI></L>
<PB REF="11">
<L>For of a wi&s;eman to inioy the &s;ight,</L>
<L>The wayes (though long) is &s;hort, the labour light.</L>
<L><HI>Tianeus</HI> (as &s;ome Hi&s;torians &s;ay,</L>
<L>Parted from <HI>Rome,</HI> pa&s;t through all <HI>A&s;ia:</HI></L>
<L>Saild ouer <HI>Nilus</HI> with vndanted boldne&s;&s;e.</L>
<L>Endur'd the bla&s;ts of <HI>Canca&s;us</HI> his coldne&s;&s;e:</L>
<L>Waded in cold through her congealed fountaines,</L>
<L>Suffered the heates of all the <HI>Riphean</HI> mountaines;</L>
<L>And to no other end. but to conferre,</L>
<L>With his <HI>Hyarchus</HI> the Philo&s;opher.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Age&s;ilans</HI> hearing that his friend,</L>
<L>In remote Countries were i'th pri&s;on pend,</L>
<L>He &s;et's affaires a&s;ide, and went his way,</L>
<L>Longing to finde where his beloued lay:</L>
<L>Whom when he found, vnto the King he went,</L>
<L>And him &s;aluted with this complement.</L>
<L>Redoubted Roy, a friend I haue, and he</L>
<L>Is here captiued by your Royaltie;</L>
<L>Of his di&s;tre&s;&s;ed ca&s;e, &s;ome pitty take,</L>
<L>And if you plea&s;e, to free him for my &s;ake;</L>
<L>Or giue him honor, dignity, or pelfe,</L>
<L>I take the deede as done vnto my &s;elfe:</L>
<L>And I a&s;&s;ure you Oh mo&s;t Royall King,</L>
<L>You cannot cha&s;tice, nor do any thing</L>
<L>Vnto my friend, but if I hear't or &s;ee,</L>
<L>I feele the torment too a&s;well as hee.</L>
<L>Thus did the noble man, great loue de&s;crie,</L>
<L>Vnto his friend, though in aduer&s;itie;</L>
<L>And of all worldly pompe, riches, and plea&s;ure,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<PB REF="11">
<L>As a true friend, to whom a man may &s;how,</L>
<L>All &s;ecrets, though none but him&s;elfe doth know:</L>
<L>He may recount to him his woes and griefes,</L>
<L>And tru&s;tily rely on his reliefes.</L>
<L>In briefe, he may repo&s;e (without all doubt)</L>
<L>To him his &s;ecrets both within and out:</L>
<L>For he is &s;ure to reape this for his gaines,</L>
<L>And be releiued in his woe and paines:</L>
<L>Coun&s;eld in perils and aduer&s;ities,</L>
<L>And be reioyc'd with in pro&s;perities.</L>
<L>But &s;uch a friend is rare, and hard to finde,</L>
<L>Wherefore to choo&s;e one of an hone&s;t mind</L>
<L>We mu&s;t be wary, his condition be,</L>
<L>Godly and good, and ioyn'd with hone&s;tie.</L>
<L>Not couetous, vnpatient, or vniu&s;t,</L>
<L>Thou mai&s;t then be deceiued in the tru&s;t:</L>
<L>Seditious factious, nor that mooueth &s;trife,</L>
<L>Pre&s;umptuous, nor faulty in his life.</L>
<L>For if he be infected with tho&s;e crimes,</L>
<L>As many be now in the&s;e latter times;</L>
<L>Reiect him, tru&s;t him not, nor come not nie him,</L>
<L>And if he proffer loue to thee deny him;</L>
<L>For none will buy a hor&s;e, or count him trim,</L>
<L>Vnle&s;&s;e he &s;ee him &s;ound of wind and limme;</L>
<L>Nor none will bargaine for pure &s;ilke or cloath,</L>
<L>But he'l fir&s;t view, that it be free from Moath,</L>
<L>Nor wine, vntill that he can truely tell;</L>
<L>The colour's pure, and it will relli&s;h well.</L>
<L>So none (that's wi&s;e) will proffer all his fauour,</L>
<L>To any if he know not his behauiour:</L>
<PB REF="12">
<L>But with <HI>Augu&s;tus</HI> alwayes carefull be,</L>
<L>Whom thou admitte&s;t in thy amity.</L>
<L>And when true triall, doth informe that he,</L>
<L>Is euery way compleate for hone&s;tie:</L>
<L>Then let thy heart on &s;uch a friend take hold,</L>
<L>Reiect him not for &s;iluer nor for gold.</L>
<L>Fot if we will beleeue the Antique &s;tories,</L>
<L>Wherein's recorded, many Monarches glories,</L>
<L>We &s;hall perceiue, how friend&s;hip they reputed,</L>
<L>And how &s;incerely for true friends they &s;uited.</L>
<L>As <HI>Alexander, Ari&s;totle</HI> lou'd,</L>
<L>King <HI>Cyrus, Chylon</HI> that &s;o faithfull prou'd:</L>
<L>Great <HI>Ptolomie, Pithimon</HI> much affected,</L>
<L>And with all reuerence he him re&s;pected.</L>
<L><HI>Pyrrus, Satirus, Augu&s;t Symonides,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Traiane, Plutarchus, Scipio, Sophocles:</HI></L>
<L>Which men for friend&s;hip haue beene much e&s;teem'd</L>
<L>And mirrors of good manners haue beene deem'd:</L>
<L>The worlds true Worthies were they in their daies,</L>
<L>Wherein their &s;eruice meritted true prai&s;e.</L>
<L>But oh! this iron age which we liue in,</L>
<L><HI>True friends are &s;owne thicke but they come vp thinne.</HI></L>
<L>For in the&s;e dayes tis difficult to know,</L>
<L>Whether a man by's words meanes well or woe.</L>
<L>Some Para&s;ite, reiected punckes will prai&s;e,</L>
<L>And terme her the true Dam&s;ell of our dayes;</L>
<L>Extoll her to the hight, and tell her how</L>
<L>But &s;he, ther's none of any worth liues now:</L>
<L>In&s;inuating with this ba&s;e intent,</L>
<L>To let her heare how he can complement&punc;</L>
<PB REF="12">
<L>Or el&s;e with her he gladly would make friends,</L>
<L>For's owne commodity and proper ends:</L>
<L>But &s;tep a&s;ide, he'l &s;ay &s;he is a &s;cab,</L>
<L>And to his neighbour call her &s;cume and drab.</L>
<L>Thus idle heads, that &s;o to &s;awne deui&s;e,</L>
<L>Do circumuent &s;uch with a thou&s;and lies:</L>
<L>And make their promi&s;e very large and faire,</L>
<L>But their performance is not worth a haire;</L>
<L>But let the wi&s;e take heede. not to relieue them,</L>
<L>And when they &s;peake mo&s;t faire, the le&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">e beleeue him</L>
<L>Tru&s;t not faire language, many oathes not &s;o,</L>
<L>But heare them for a while, than let him go.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Well now Woes tract, and Fickle faith I'ue done,</L>
<L>Wherein a &s;lender cour&s;e my Mu&s;e hath ron<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">e;</L>
<L>Which &s;ome may blame me for, when tis well &s;cand,</L>
<L>As too too young to take this taske in hand:</L>
<L>To which I an&s;wer now that euen I,</L>
<L>Though twenty yeeres I hardly haue pa&s;t by,</L>
<L>(Yet Iue ob&s;eru'd) &s;ometime that forced teares</L>
<L>Of woe a&s;much as &s;ome of forty yeeres.</L>
<L>Therefore graue Seniors, and you froward blood.</L>
<L>That grin at goodmen when they wi&s;h you good.</L>
<L>Excu&s;e my weakene&s;&s;e, if you be not coy,</L>
<L>To take in&s;truction from a witle&s;&s;e boy:</L>
<L>Regard a while and let there grow no griefe,</L>
<L>That here I reckon other woes in briefe.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>It is a woe when men of good de&s;erts,</L>
<L>Should vilipended be with meere vp&s;tarts:</L>
<L>Becau&s;e they want, and men that little know,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<PB REF="13">
<L>This is the world, a knaue that will not lacke,</L>
<L>A precious out&s;ide, for his A&s;&s;es backe,</L>
<L>Shall be e&s;teem'd, though the foole be mute,</L>
<L>Yet &s;hall he be commended for his &s;uite.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I greeue againe when Petti-foggers be,</L>
<L>So au'rous no con&s;cience they wil &s;ee,</L>
<L>But with long Gownes, they keepe their coxcombes warme,</L>
<L>And &s;ell their breath for many a poore mans harme;</L>
<L>For bribes extoll them to a high degree,</L>
<L>Which makes them fare &s;o well and fat (we &s;ee.)</L>
<L>But let &s;ome begger a petition make,</L>
<L>And pray him double, that for Chri&s;t his &s;ake,</L>
<L>With a poore penny he'l relieue his want;</L>
<L>He'l tell him &s;traight, that pennies now are skant,</L>
<L>When he's more hoarded vp then well he knowes</L>
<L>How, or to whom he &s;hall the &s;ame di&s;po&s;e.</L>
<L>They make poore Pedants oft to trudge in rags,</L>
<L>When they can &s;it in &s;ilke, and fill their bags.</L>
<L>By vaine delayes, demurres, and needle&s;&s;e clau&s;es,</L>
<L>They haue a tricke to lengthen ea&s;ie cau&s;es.</L>
<L>Their con&s;cience cares not, &s;o they haue their &s;hare,</L>
<L>That makes them ble&s;t, and many hone&s;t bare.</L>
<L>Its a condition incident to all,</L>
<L>That rai&s;e their fortunes by anothers fall:</L>
<L>And as i'th Elephant we may di&s;cry,</L>
<L>(Being guilty to his owne deformity)</L>
<L>Dare not looke in the fountaines cleare and good,</L>
<L>But lookes for filthy channels mixt with mudde.</L>
<L>So of their con&s;cience I may moralize,</L>
<L>For bout their &s;oules &s;uch ba&s;e polution lyes</L>
<PB REF="13">
<L>They dare not looke in them, for feare the elues,</L>
<L>Growe de&s;perate, perhaps and hang them&s;elues.</L>
<L>So haue I &s;eene a Patient when his wound,</L>
<L>Hath beene deepe, wide, and rankled all around,</L>
<L>Would not permit the Surgeon to &s;ee,</L>
<L>Nor &s;earch his wound, &s;o ob&s;tinate was he.</L>
<L>I'ue likewi&s;e &s;eene a wa&s;ting prodigall,</L>
<L>Hath runne ith bookes &s;o farre (by wa&s;ting all,</L>
<L>That by no meanes he could abide to heare,</L>
<L>The &s;able &s;umme the Merchant made appeare;</L>
<L>When it hath beene a prouerbe old and true,</L>
<L>Oft reckning makes long friends with me and you.</L>
<L>But &s;ome neere &s;umme their reckonings vp with God</L>
<L>Nor feare the ruine of his wrathfull rod,</L>
<L>But run oth &s;core &s;o long, with large receipts,</L>
<L>They will not heare nor hearken to their debts.</L>
<L>When we &s;hould often &s;umme our &s;innes vp all,</L>
<L>And &s;ee whereto amounts the principall:</L>
<L>Which while I liue with care I will re&s;pect,</L>
<L>And then I know, what goodne&s;&s;e to expect.</L>
<L>Ile feare no <HI>Audit</HI> then, nor hatch di&s;paire</L>
<L>Of lawfull payment, when I thus prepare.</L>
<L>I'ue wondred oft, and blu&s;ht for very &s;hame,</L>
<L>To read of meere Philo&s;phers great aime,</L>
<L>That had no other guide but onely Nature,</L>
<L>Yet in their manners were &s;o ripe and mature.</L>
<L>They Amity embrac't, and were content,</L>
<L>With fruits and hearbs which mother <HI>Tellus</HI> &s;ent:</L>
<L>Not riotous, nor lou'd they luxurie,</L>
<L>None they oppre&s;&s;ed with damn'd u&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="3 letters"></L>
<PB REF="14">
<L>And when a hainous crime was ere committed,</L>
<L>'Twas deepely puni&s;ht, which no Fee remitted.</L>
<L>Now to inuent &s;innes we'r each day beginning,</L>
<L>And crimes commit by cu&s;tome of much &s;inning;</L>
<L>Which to portray doth pa&s;&s;e my skill and pen,</L>
<L>Since there's as many vices now as men.</L>
<L>But oh the blindne&s;&s;e of vs Chri&s;tians now,</L>
<L>That haue the Go&s;pell read and preached too;</L>
<L>Yet &s;uffer them by the dimme candle light</L>
<L>Of nature, to excell vs; though the right</L>
<L>We (fruitle&s;&s;e) practize: but their liues &s;o &s;pent</L>
<L>May to vs liuers be a pre&s;ident.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The great deceites too of mechanicke men,</L>
<L>Which in their callings they v&s;e now and then:</L>
<L>Would vexe a Saint, when th'hone&s;t cannot haue</L>
<L>Their worke di&s;patched truly for a knaue.</L>
<L>As Taylors that to make their patings large,</L>
<L>Puls of a &s;hare, and puts toth con&s;cience charge;</L>
<L>For'th la&s;t apparell that I had to make,</L>
<L>A Taylor (that the taske would vndertake)</L>
<L>Came to me with faire language and be&s;eeches,</L>
<L>And told me if plea&s;ed he'd make my breeches:</L>
<L>I willingly a&s;&s;ented bid him take them,</L>
<L>And told the manner how I'd haue him make them:</L>
<L>The&s;e patched vp (a Poxe light on his no&s;e,</L>
<L>He'd &s;tole at lea&s;t three quarters from my ho&s;e;</L>
<L>Which when I found, I did not as &s;ome doo,</L>
<L>To fall a &s;colding, No, he told me how,</L>
<L>His workman&s;hip did mo&s;t mens workes exceede,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<PB REF="14">
<L>So many of them, cheefly of that crew,</L>
<L>Will not &s;ay God be with you, but adieu.</L>
<L>At euery oath they heare turnes vp their eye,</L>
<L>Hates in religion true conformity;</L>
<L>Leaue the high &s;treet &amp; through the corne make way</L>
<L>To &s;eeke new methods both to prate and pray.</L>
<L>This rout (for &s;ooth) they are &s;o holy bent,</L>
<L>In pre&s;ence they'l not &s;weare but complement,</L>
<L>With congies, cringies, nay, they'l keepe a &s;tir,</L>
<L>With truly yes, and verily (good Sir)</L>
<L>V&s;e ceremonies, make a &s;how to pray,</L>
<L>When'th world hath not more hypocrites then they:</L>
<L>And prating thus they can po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e an a&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Their hone&s;ty, all hone&s;ties &s;urpa&s;&s;e;</L>
<L>For if a Nouice worke to &s;uch men put,</L>
<L>Which he would haue trim'd in the newe&s;t cut;</L>
<L>He'l tell him he hath metaphi&s;icke skill,</L>
<L>And &s;weare to make them neatly, that he will.</L>
<L>He's tractable enough, and then the clowne,</L>
<L>Sweares he doth make the cheape&s;t in the towne;</L>
<L>And &s;ayes Sir vnder&s;tand this by your fauour</L>
<L>I aske but very little for my labour;</L>
<L>Tho others can them larger fees allow,</L>
<L>Nay &s;tretch and &s;teale a great deale more then due,</L>
<L>We hate the humour and the&s;e &s;harking elues,</L>
<L>That neither care for vs nor for them&s;elues;</L>
<L>Which is di&s;grace to vs and to them too,</L>
<L>This I admire they do not &s;hame to doo:</L>
<L>To v&s;e di&s;&s;embling in an hone&s;t trade,</L>
<L>But tis no matter yours &s;hall be well made</L>
<PB REF="15">
<L>This is the fa&s;hion of that gracefull youth</L>
<L>That lyes mo&s;t, yet mu&s;t make't (in tirely) truth:</L>
<L>And &s;uch a mon&s;ter well ob&s;eru'd of Man,</L>
<L>Who would not take him for a Pewter-can.</L>
<L>He &s;cornes to &s;teale, but for the rips and &s;titches</L>
<L>(Tho double paid) yet he mu&s;t pinch the breeches:</L>
<L>For to di&s;&s;emble, he 'th the exacte Art,</L>
<L>Seemes holy headed, with a hollow heart;</L>
<L>This they effect with many verilies,</L>
<L>And vnder truths pretences cloake mo&s;t lies.</L>
<L>Now if &s;ome Botcher take the &s;ame in &s;nuffe,</L>
<L>And face my lines out with a counter-buffe.</L>
<L>Say they are weake, and he doth much di&s;like it,</L>
<L>Then throw't a&s;ide, or with his pur&s;e &s;trings &s;trike it:</L>
<L>Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e the Readers, that it is a toy,</L>
<L>For 'twas compo&s;ed by a &s;tripling boy.</L>
<L>Yet (Sarrah) contend not now with me to cloak your tricks,</L>
<L>The prouerbe is, none but a gauld hor&s;e kicks.</L>
<L>I can reuenge me, but the conque&s;t's ba&s;e,</L>
<L>That is obtained in &s;o vile a ca&s;e,</L>
<L>As for the hone&s;t workemen of this land,</L>
<L>I gladly would haue them to vnder&s;tand;</L>
<L>That I with all ob&s;equiou&s;ne&s;&s;e re&s;pect them,</L>
<L>And (being hone&s;t) heartily affect them;</L>
<L>For though my cloth vnto my griefe was gone,</L>
<L>I will not blame all, for the fault of one;</L>
<L>Nor I divulge it, to ecclip&s;e his fame,</L>
<L>That did the deed, for I'le ob&s;cure his name.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The Tap&s;ters get vncon&s;cionable gaine,</L>
<L>And for one penny often picke on twaine:</L>
<PB REF="15">
<L>They co&s;en &s;trangers with halfe nicke and froth,</L>
<L>(The&s;e &s;ookes the City, and the Country both)</L>
<L>Their empty halfe-fildings, and co&s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ning pots,</L>
<L>Make poore men pay whole money for their &s;hots;</L>
<L>And yet the ra&s;call, cheates and co&s;ens &s;till,</L>
<L>For he's a tricke (ob&s;erue him when you will)</L>
<L>To fill the iugge halfe full, bring't to the table,</L>
<L>And poures a gla&s;&s;e foorth as't was commendable:</L>
<L>For why, the villaine certainely is loth,</L>
<L>We &s;hould perceiue the pot halfe fild with froth.</L>
<L>Well, let them &s;core, and &s;courge, and brag, and baule</L>
<L>One day will come, will make them pay for all:</L>
<L>And tho they thinke by &s;mothering to conceale it,</L>
<L>He &s;ees that once will make their carka&s;&s;e feele it.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The co&s;enning Broker is none of the lea&s;t,</L>
<L>That mo&s;t deludes; this fellow in hels-che&s;t</L>
<L>Layes vp his linen, cloth, wooll, and lawne,</L>
<L>Which he for little purcha&s;t at a pawne.</L>
<L>They co&s;en Nouices, and like ba&s;e Rookes,</L>
<L>Are happy when the hone&s;t's in their bookes;</L>
<L>For by extorted rates, they are oppre&s;t,</L>
<L>And plagued by exacted intere&s;t:</L>
<L>And as they take in others Line or Lawne,</L>
<L>So to the deuill they their &s;oules do pawne:</L>
<L>For if the law will but their crimes allow,</L>
<L>They'le freely hazard &s;oule and body too.</L>
<L>But penalty reformes part of their euils,</L>
<L>Which makes men liue in peace in &s;pight of diuels.</L>
<L>Their grand extortions, and their wounding bils,</L>
<L>Summ'd vp with fabl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<PB REF="16">
<L>They'l either liue in mi&s;ery to end it,</L>
<L>Gr leaue it to a thriftle&s;&s;e heire will &s;pend it.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But as Mechannickes v&s;e this vile deceit,</L>
<L>And &s;tudy how to co&s;en, aire, or late;</L>
<L>Leaue nought (for lucre) but it is attempted,</L>
<L>Yet few profe&s;&s;ions are from hence exempted:</L>
<L>For there's no calling vnder Sunne I &s;ee,</L>
<L>But tis accrewed with &s;ome fal&s;itie.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Our Cleargy they who&s;e liuing &s;hould be &s;pent,</L>
<L>Vnto the Laymens pious pre&s;ident,</L>
<L>Are mo&s;t corrupted with damn'd Symony,</L>
<L>And ignorance is plac'd by bribery.</L>
<L>This makes Sir <HI>Iohn</HI> procure a liuing fat,</L>
<L>That &s;carce knowes what is latin for his hat,</L>
<L>And like an Abbey-lubber gets the gaines,</L>
<L>When learnder men liues poore with greater paines.</L>
<L>Such liuings peri&s;h with their fat and honey,</L>
<L>That are a&s;&s;igned onely for See-mony:</L>
<L>But if I were not placed by my Art,</L>
<L>Let then who will &s;how-money (take my part)</L>
<L>For if that coyne beare &s;way and good be gone,</L>
<L>I'le re&s;t me as I am, and neere &s;eeke none.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Then the loo&s;e liuing of the Temporall man,</L>
<L>Both Papi&s;t, Prote&s;tant and Puritane,</L>
<L>The Browni&s;t and more I could reckon now,</L>
<L>(Of vp&s;tart Sects) I'm &s;ure neere thirty two</L>
<L>Are in as bad, or wor&s;e predicament,</L>
<L>Riches, and Riots care, kils their content;</L>
<L>No tru&s;t is in them, for their faith I &s;ay,</L>
<L>With their &s;mall con&s;cience th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters"> haue cha&s;t away.</L>
<PB REF="16">
<L>Nought now is practiz'd, but deceit and &s;trife,</L>
<L>A man dare hardly tru&s;t his neere&s;t wife;</L>
<L>The Father not the &s;onne, nor Sonne the Father,</L>
<L>Some or they'<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> tru&s;t their Sire, will hang him rather;</L>
<L>The elde&s;t Son, &s;uites 'gain&s;t his younger brother,</L>
<L>And neither of them dare tru&s;t one another;</L>
<L>Thus is all truth, good liuing led a&s;tray,</L>
<L>Affections dead, and faith is fled away:</L>
<L>For many now will promi&s;e &s;weare and lye,</L>
<L>To doe a friend, a fauour by and by;</L>
<L>To flatter him in pre&s;ence, &s;peake him faire,</L>
<L>And bid him make good cheere and take no care,</L>
<L>For they will cure him of that carefull ca&s;e,</L>
<L>And promi&s;e mountaines too before his face;</L>
<L>But turn'd a&s;ide, their &s;peciall care growes &s;lacke,</L>
<L>And then they'l wi&s;h him hang'd behind his backe.</L>
<L>Oh faithle&s;&s;e wretches in who&s;e hollow bre&s;ts,</L>
<L>No confidence, no truth, no honour re&s;ts.</L>
<L>Alas is all your con&s;cience gone and pitty too,</L>
<L>That makes it &s;o hard to &s;inde a parcell now.</L>
<L>But if your liues did any faith afford,</L>
<L>You'd chu&s;e to breake your necke before your word.</L>
<L>It is a woe when true gentility,</L>
<L>Should croutch to vp&s;tarts crept from beggery:</L>
<L>Suite with &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion to the fooles for grace,</L>
<L>When &s;uch a one inue&s;ted in a place,</L>
<L>Is farre more haughty, and more prompt to &s;corne,</L>
<L>Then Gentlemen that nobly were borne.</L>
<L>The A&s;&s;e will grow &s;o curious, coy, and ciuill,</L>
<L>And &s;et on hor&s;ebacke he'l ride lik<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="3 letters">ill</L>
<PB REF="17">
<L>But let them clime &s;o, yet, beware a fall,</L>
<L>They &s;lip not backe, and breake their neckes for all:</L>
<L>For I haue knowne &s;ome full as fortunate,</L>
<L>That haue beene foiled with the premis'd fate.</L>
<L>It is a woe when wi&s;e are vnder rules</L>
<L>Of golden calues, and &s;hallow brained fooles;</L>
<L>Will be commanded by a ru&s;tie &s;laue,</L>
<L>Fawne, flatter him, &s;ome kindne&s;&s;e for to haue;</L>
<L>Doe good or euill, that he would haue done,</L>
<L>Through wet, and dry, he'l either ride or runne.</L>
<L>But I admire that men of noble partes,</L>
<L>Indu'd with many Sciences and Arts,</L>
<L>So ba&s;ely thus can crouch, vnto a Knaue,</L>
<L>And be officious, tho he money haue;</L>
<L>For &s;uch ob&s;eruance and ob&s;equiou&s;ne&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Make qualities contemn'd, loare lou'd the le&s;&s;e.</L>
<L>Were I the man, that &s;hould be tide vnto</L>
<L>One of the&s;e mu&s;hromes, or I'le chu&s;e to do</L>
<L>Such offices, or marke each puppies becke,</L>
<L>I'le fir&s;t re&s;olue (i'faith) to breake my necke,</L>
<L>Or to a &s;coundrell &s;o ob&s;equious be,</L>
<L>As come to ki&s;&s;e her hand, or bend my knee;</L>
<L>To honor her, or humour her conceit,</L>
<L>With vaine applau&s;es from an empty pate:</L>
<L>As many fal&s;ly do imploy their pen,</L>
<L>To make a mon&s;ter, King of mortall men:</L>
<L>And &s;ome loo&s;e liuing Lady to inherit,</L>
<L>A Paragaues true prai&s;e and proper merit.</L>
<L>Out on &s;uch A&s;&s;e-made-Epigrammati&s;ts,</L>
<L>That fil<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> their phra&s;es with &s;uch filthy fi&s;ts&punc;</L>
<PB REF="17">
<L>And make &s;ome &s;ordid &s;how, makes foule mo&s;t faire,</L>
<L>Tels them of Ca&s;tles (they de&s;erue) i'th aire.</L>
<L>Indeed if that one knew a nobleman,</L>
<L>But the&s;e are rare as is the coale-blacke Swan)</L>
<L>That harbor'd hone&s;ty, compleat each way,</L>
<L>And that no lyes would either &s;ooth or &s;ay;</L>
<L>What is't? but for him I would vndertake,</L>
<L>Euen wade the Sea (if need were) for his &s;ake.</L>
<L>And truly (Mi&s;tre&s;&s;e) if we li&s;t to &s;can</L>
<L>Vpon your &s;pou&s;e, he's each way &s;uch a man</L>
<L>As I haue mentioned; but what man can tell,</L>
<L>Where &s;uch another Mirror now doth dwell.</L>
<L>Repleet with hone&s;ty, and good, and grace,</L>
<L>That hath wits image pictur'd on his face:</L>
<L>Free from all fal&s;ities and horrid crimes,</L>
<L>Abandonning the ba&s;ene&s;&s;e of the&s;e times:</L>
<L>The guide of godline&s;&s;e, the Man of Men,</L>
<L>Who&s;e glories, had I but a golden pen,</L>
<L>I would record, and &s;ing the &s;ame in ver&s;e,</L>
<L>That our &s;ucce&s;&s;ors might his worth reh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">r&s;e.</L>
<L>But while I liue, my Mu&s;e and I will &s;triue,</L>
<L>To make his hone&s;ty his life &s;uruiue;</L>
<L>In &s;pight of fortune and that fickle fame,</L>
<L>No time, nor ruine &s;hall out raze the &s;ame:</L>
<L>And if my lines his true de&s;erts can giue,</L>
<L>In &s;pight of death, for euer he &s;hall liue.</L>
<L>And &s;o farre (Reader) vnder thy correction,</L>
<L>Haue I digre&s;t to &s;how the true affection,</L>
<L>And &s;eruices I owe vnto the&s;e two,</L>
<L>Which till I dye (God willing I will doe&punc;</L>
<PB REF="18" MS="y">
<L>Praying their happine&s;&s;e, may neuer wither,</L>
<L>But they may loue, and long time liue together.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And now my Mu&s;e being weary of this woe,</L>
<L>By ripping ruines vp, to&s;t too and fro;</L>
<L>And &s;eeing that no practi&s;e here is free,</L>
<L>But in &s;ome part it ta&s;ts of mi&s;ery:</L>
<L>We'l for this time indeauour for to leaue,</L>
<L>Such things as mention'd further would but greeue.</L>
<L>For had I iron voices, or bra&s;&s;e tongues,</L>
<L><HI>Briarius</HI> hands, or large extended lungs,</L>
<L>Or were the Sea all inke, the earth all quils,</L>
<L>'Twere difficult to mention all the ils,</L>
<L>This Microco&s;me includes: So I intend,</L>
<L>to clo&s;e my Phamphlet vp, and here to end.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Without end.</HI></L>
<L>If I herein haue er'd, I pray forgiue,</L>
<L>As proper tis for man to erre as liue.</L>
</LG>
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