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<P>NEWS FROM THE LOWE-COUNTREYS.</P>
<P><HI>OR, Podex</HI> his Encomium.</P>
<P>HELD OUT For publick Information.</P>
<P>BY <HI>MERCVRIVS LEPIDVS.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Nulla cruenta canunt, caveas at, candide Lector, Carmina ni madidas dent tibi no&s;tra genas.</HI></P>
<P><HI>LONDON:</HI> Printed for <HI>W:N.</HI> 1652.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>M. L.</HI> TO THE READER.</HEAD>
<L><HI>SEnts</HI> are in Things, not Words. A Ro&s;e, or Pinck</L>
<L>Hath no &s;weet &s;mell; nor hath a &mdash; a &s;tink</L>
<L>In the bare Name: le&s;&s;e, when the name doth lurk,</L>
<L>Wrapt in clean Linen, and lets <HI>Fancie</HI> work.</L>
<L>It will not, then, I hope, offend thy No&s;e,</L>
<L>I prai&s;e Him, here, that breathes within thy Ho&s;e.</L>
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<HEAD>PODEX HIS ENCOMIUM.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>OF <HI>Microco&s;me</HI> his chiefe&s;t Ba&s;e</L>
<L><HI>Don Podex</HI> hight, and of his Race,</L>
<L>His Honour, Qualities, and Parts,</L>
<L>And of his many Slights and Arts,</L>
<L>I mean to &s;ing. Great <HI>A-jax,</HI> Thou</L>
<L>That know'&s;t his Matter, Mould, and how</L>
<L>His Humour flows, in&s;pire my Quill,</L>
<L>That, to this Age, it may di&s;till,</L>
<L>Of its long clowded Excellence,</L>
<L>A Lick, to &s;ea&s;on ev'ry &s;ence.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>When, fir&s;t, the fir&s;t confu&s;ed Ma&s;&s;e</L>
<L>Did, from its mi&s;h-ma&s;h medly, pa&s;&s;e</L>
<L>To tho&s;e foure &s;egregated forms,</L>
<L>Who&s;e re-commixture now informs</L>
<L>And, Being, gives to what&s;oere</L>
<L>Sub&s;i&s;ts in this Terre&s;triall Sphear.</L>
<L>And that the Arch-Thee&s;'s &s;tollen Fire</L>
<L>Did, fir&s;t, the Thing, call'd Man, in&s;pire,</L>
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<L><HI>Podex</HI> then breath'd. His &s;hape mo&s;t rare,</L>
<L>For tis not ovall, long, or &s;quare,</L>
<L>Trigonall, or Pentagonall,</L>
<L>Or any of the Gones at all,</L>
<L>But pure <HI>Orbicular:</HI> And &s;o</L>
<L>As an Ecliptick Line doth go,</L>
<L>To the Autartick Pole, and frames</L>
<L>Two <HI>&s;emi Rotunds;</HI> But Oakes names</L>
<L>Them Ho-ri&s;e-on-tailes. Wondrous fair</L>
<L>Is his Complexion, for the Air</L>
<L>Doth &s;eldome nip it, or the Sun</L>
<L>Give it a ki&s;&s;e, to make it dun.</L>
<L>His Dre&s;&s;e is of as many kindes,</L>
<L>As there are Nations, Modes, and Mindes,</L>
<L>Sometimes, for&s;ooth, the <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Ho&s;e</L>
<L>Doth trick him up, and there He goes;</L>
<L>The <HI>French</HI> Trunck &s;ometimes doth him hou&s;e</L>
<L>The <HI>Dutch</HI> Slopp, and the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Trou&s;e,</L>
<L>(That be&s;t his ju&s;t proportion &s;howes)</L>
<L>The <HI>Scotti&s;h Brackin,</HI> (O my Toes!)</L>
<L>The German, Dane, the Swi&s;&s;er-cut,</L>
<L>And thou&s;ands more, together put,</L>
<L>In rank and file, of no mean worth,</L>
<L>Do all contend to &s;et him forth.</L>
<L>But above all, (and &s;omewhat more)</L>
<L>The Shees, from ten, to twice two &s;core,</L>
<L>And upwards yet, mo&s;t ca&s;t about</L>
<L>How they may make him fllaunt it out:</L>
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<L>And take it in a high di&s;dain,</L>
<L>He &s;hould walk forth without a Train;</L>
<L>Which clo&s;e &s;till at his heels mu&s;t wait,</L>
<L>For his more Glory, Pomp, and State.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Now though indeed, he hath re&s;ort</L>
<L>In ev'ry Place, (for Camp, and Court,</L>
<L>The Countrey, City knows him well)</L>
<L>Yet he is chiefly plea&s;'d to dwell</L>
<L>In the Low-Countries, mong the Crew</L>
<L>of Fat-chops, of the pure&s;t hue.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This <HI>Podex</HI> is in fame, &s;o great</L>
<L>All Callings grace him with a Seat,</L>
<L>What Syn'drim, Synod, Senat, State</L>
<L>Without him ere in Councell &s;ate?</L>
<L>What Courts of Con&s;cience, Criminall,</L>
<L>Pleas Common, Chequer, Admirall</L>
<L>Do &s;entence give on That, or This,</L>
<L>But <HI>Podex</HI> an A&s;&s;e&s;&s;or is?</L>
<L>What Conclave can, or Caball be,</L>
<L>What Conventicle, Committee</L>
<L>Doth hold, or meet, but <HI>Podex,</HI> there,</L>
<L>Before all others, takes the Chaire?</L>
<L>What publick &s;how, what Ma&s;que, or Play,</L>
<L>Ball, Banquet, Fea&s;t, Wake, Games of <HI>May;</HI></L>
<L>Are &s;olemnis'd, for &s;port, or grace,</L>
<L>But <HI>Podex</HI> &s;till is fir&s;t in place?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Yet though we thus, of <HI>Podex</HI> &s;peak,</L>
<L>Mi&s;take him not, or think him weak</L>
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<L>In Spirit, as if only made</L>
<L>For Pa&s;times; or that duller trade</L>
<L>Cal'd Contemplation, that pre&s;ents</L>
<L>Language for Launces; Tubs for Tents.</L>
<L>No, No; The highe&s;t Feats of Armes,</L>
<L>The hotte&s;t Conflicts, and Alarmes</L>
<L>Of thundring <HI>Mars, Bellona</HI> fierce</L>
<L>Are not without him. To rehear&s;e</L>
<L>His active Fortitude, would &s;pend</L>
<L>Quills to the &s;tumps, and yet not end.</L>
<L>What private challenge, Duell, Fray,</L>
<L>Doth pa&s;&s;e without him? What Array</L>
<L>Of Warre; what March by Day or Night,</L>
<L>What Skermi&s;h, Battell, Onflat, Fight</L>
<L>By Sea, or Land; What Citty &s;torm'd;</L>
<L>What Fort befieged; What Deed perform'd</L>
<L>Of noted Fame, in Trenches, Grafts,</L>
<L>At Breaches, Turnepicks, Bridges, Rafts,</L>
<L>Mines, Sconces, Pa&s;&s;es, any where,</L>
<L>But gallant <HI>Podex</HI> &s;till is there?</L>
<L>What Plot, De&s;ign of any &s;ize,</L>
<L>What Stratagem, or Enterpri&s;e,</L>
<L>Whether in Parties, or alone,</L>
<L>But daring <HI>Podex</HI> &s;till is one?</L>
<L>What need more on this Point to tarry?</L>
<L><HI>Podez</HI> is an Ubiquitarry.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Yet further to enlarge his Prai&s;e</L>
<L>(Which well de&s;erves, and wears the Bay&s;e)</L>
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<L>Know, <HI>Podex</HI> is of &s;uch high &s;way</L>
<L>That Kings, when he Commands, obey:</L>
<L>Princes, Lords, Ladies mu&s;t do &s;o,</L>
<L>And, where he bids, not &s;end, but go</L>
<L>Them&s;elves in Per&s;on, and no boot</L>
<L>For them to &s;corn to trudge a foot.</L>
<L>Coach, Hor&s;e, Sedan, and of that kind,</L>
<L>All other Knacks mu&s;t &s;tay behind.</L>
<L><HI>Podex</HI> is mighty, &s;tout, and &s;trong</L>
<L>To baffle All, would do him wrong.</L>
<L><HI>Podex</HI> is in &s;o high reque&s;t,</L>
<L>That each one &s;trives to plea&s;e him be&s;t.</L>
<L>Is <HI>Podex</HI> out of tune, pray tell,</L>
<L>Who &s;pares for Co&s;t, to make him Well?</L>
<L>Is <HI>Podex</HI> foul, what Dame &s;o nice,</L>
<L>Will &s;corn to wipe him once, or twice?</L>
<L>Whom <HI>Podex</HI> once but takes to favour</L>
<L><HI>Podex,</HI> in lo&s;&s;e, makes him a Savour.</L>
<L><HI>Podex,</HI> with ev'ry Sex, and Sort</L>
<L>Of People, hath a lowd Report.</L>
<L><HI>Podex</HI> is of an humble Mind,</L>
<L>Steps not before, but comes behind,</L>
<L><HI>Podex</HI> yet &s;tandeth bare to None</L>
<L>But to &s;trong-&s;ented <HI>Ajax's</HI> throne.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Should I of all his Places &s;peak,</L>
<L>Pen, Inck, and Paper were to weak.</L>
<L>What Hou&s;e of Office in the Land,</L>
<L>But <HI>Podex,</HI> therein, hath Command?</L>
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<L><HI>Podex,</HI> a Stati&s;t, much of Note,</L>
<L>Doth in all Privy-Councells Vote.</L>
<L><HI>Podez</HI> a Judg is, that decrees,</L>
<L>Without re&s;pects, or bribes, or fees,</L>
<L>A <HI>Habeas Corpus,</HI> on a pain</L>
<L>None ere incur'd without a Stain.</L>
<L><HI>Podex</HI> is Doctor of the Chair,</L>
<L>And where he &s;peaks hold your Tongue there.</L>
<L><HI>Podex</HI> a Lawyer is, your Ca&s;e</L>
<L>Can clear at any Time and Place.</L>
<L>And when occa&s;ion rightly needs</L>
<L>In Fee-tail be&s;t can draw your Deeds.</L>
<L><HI>Podex's</HI>-a <HI>Herald, Aeolus,</HI></L>
<L>By him, Proclaims his He&s;ts to us,</L>
<L>From his <HI>Culabrian</HI> &s;nowy Cliff,</L>
<L>A <HI>Zone</HI> more hot then <HI>Teneriff.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Podex</HI> is a Phi&s;itian, much</L>
<L>Cures Collicks, Belly-Ach, and &s;uch.</L>
<L><HI>Podex</HI> a Souldier is, doth keep</L>
<L>His Watch and Rounds whil&s;t you do &s;leep.</L>
<L><HI>Podex's a</HI> Sergeant, who&s;e Arre&s;t</L>
<L>Admits no Bayle, To go is be&s;t.</L>
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<LG>
<L>But by the way, ere I proced</L>
<L>With <HI>Podex</HI> further, let his Seed,</L>
<L>His Brood, his Off-&s;pring, I&s;&s;ue, be</L>
<L>Made known to You. Yet (let me &s;ee)</L>
<L>It is &s;o numerous, &s;o great,</L>
<L>So &s;trange, &s;o divers to repeat,</L>
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<L>That &s;hould I go this task about</L>
<L>I ne'r &s;hould find a clean way out.</L>
<L>Take Notice only, for his grace,</L>
<L>That that which takes the chiefe&s;t place,</L>
<L>As mo&s;t in power, &s;trength, and Sen&s;e,</L>
<L>A Knight is, cal'd, Sir Reverence.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Come to his Parts. Can any dance</L>
<L>The <HI>Spani&s;h</HI> Pavin, tricks of <HI>France,</HI></L>
<L>The <HI>Scotti&s;h</HI> Jigg, the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Trot,</L>
<L>And thou&s;ands more: And <HI>Podex</HI> not?</L>
<L>Can any fence, or vault, or ride,</L>
<L>But <HI>Podex,</HI> there, is in his Pride?</L>
<L><HI>Podex</HI> a Lingui&s;t is, affects</L>
<L>To &s;peak in &s;undry Dialects.</L>
<L><HI>Podex</HI> is ver&s;'d, in Grammar, Well,</L>
<L>His ev'ry Part of Speech can tell:</L>
<L>Knows all his Rules, among the re&s;t,</L>
<L><HI>Ea&s;e in prae&s;enti,</HI> likes him be&s;t.</L>
<L>And Pri&s;cian (be it no di&s;grace)</L>
<L>Dares hardly lok him in the face.</L>
<L><HI>Podex</HI> in Ret'rick hath a Vein</L>
<L>Oft utt'ring in a fluent &s;train.</L>
<L>His Elocutions Excellence</L>
<L>The object is of ev'ry Sen&s;e.</L>
<L>You may there, ta&s;te, touch, &s;mell, &s;ee, hear:</L>
<L>The Scholemen but affect the Ear.</L>
<L><HI>Podex,</HI> in Logick, is profound,</L>
<L>His Syllogi&s;mes are &s;trong, and &s;ound.</L>
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<L><HI>Fe&s;tino</HI> a main Figure is</L>
<L>He loves, and &s;ometimes<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Di&s;amis</NOTE> Does-ami&s;&s;e.</L>
<L>His force doth in <HI>Bocardo</HI> lye;</L>
<L>And bears all out with,<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Dati&s;t.</NOTE> That&mdash;is&mdash;I.</L>
<L>Mu&s;ick doth <HI>Podex</HI> &s;o delight,</L>
<L>He &s;ings by Day, he &s;ings by Night;</L>
<L>He &s;ings with All, in ev'ry Place,</L>
<L>All kind of Parts; His chief is Ba&s;e.</L>
<L>Knows Thirds, Fifths, Eights, Re&s;ts, Mood and Time:</L>
<L>His Gam-ut can de&s;cend and climb.</L>
<L>If to Arithmetick you come,</L>
<L><HI>Podex</HI> can ca&s;t, can clear a &s;umme.</L>
<L>Adde, Multiply, Sub&s;tract, Divide;</L>
<L>Work &s;till to the Sini&s;ter &s;ide.</L>
<L>The Rules of Fellow&s;hip, of Three,</L>
<L>And more to him familiar be.</L>
<L><HI>Podex</HI> is for Geometry,</L>
<L>Showes <HI>Area,</HI> &s;hows <HI>Periphery.</HI></L>
<L>Shows Circle, Center, Parallels;</L>
<L>Showes the Diameter, (that tells</L>
<L>How to &s;plit ju&s;tly Rounds in Two:)</L>
<L>And &s;howes you more the I will do.</L>
<L>Talk of A&s;tronomie, and there</L>
<L><HI>Podex</HI> excells; Di&s;playes the Sphere,</L>
<L>Its Motions, Con&s;tellations, Range,</L>
<L>Eclip&s;es, Changes: Shows (O &s;trange!)</L>
<L>The Smooth-fac'd Twins, the milky way,</L>
<L>The Pole, the Line, and &s;uch as they.</L>
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<L>hall not then <HI>Podex</HI> for his parts</L>
<L>Be &s;tiled Ma&s;ter in the Arts?</L>
<L>Nay rather make their number even,</L>
<L>By adding <HI>Podex</HI> to the Seven.</L>
<L><HI>Podex</HI> is Liberall, and may</L>
<L>Better be called, Ar&s;e, then They.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Something of <HI>Podex</HI> yet I find,</L>
<L>Of no &s;mall Moment, left behind,</L>
<L>His Slights and Arts. But who &s;hould tell,</L>
<L>All, would a Volumne va&s;tly Swell.</L>
<L>True Symmetrie, 'tis truly Sed,</L>
<L>Will, by the Foot, de&s;cribe the Head.</L>
<L>It &s;hall &s;uffice, that, by a Spole,</L>
<L>A Sen&s;e acute may &s;ent the Hole.</L>
<L><HI>Podex</HI> an Archer is, of Tho&s;e</L>
<L>That aim at Heel, and hit the No&s;e.</L>
<L><HI>Podox</HI> is a Perfumer, vents</L>
<L>Strong, and of &s;undry &s;orts of Sents.</L>
<L><HI>Podex</HI> a Painter is, can lay</L>
<L>Colours, as well By Night as Day.</L>
<L><HI>Podex</HI> is a rare <HI>Pilot,</HI> knows</L>
<L>Whence the Wind comes, and where it blows.</L>
<L>Is for all weathers, &s;ometimes &s;ayles</L>
<L>With gentle, &s;ometimes blu&s;t'ring Gales.</L>
<L>His &s;teddy Cour&s;e doth &s;eldome &s;toop,</L>
<L>For he hath &s;till the Wind in Poop.</L>
<L><HI>Podex</HI>'s a Husbandman, can &s;oyl</L>
<L>His Ground with ea&s;e when others toyl.</L>
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<L><HI>Podex</HI> a Tucker is, and knows</L>
<L>A &s;peedy way to thicken Cloathes.</L>
<L><HI>Podex</HI>'s a Chandler, and you may</L>
<L>Fetch much-Turd there, fre&s;h ev'ry Day.</L>
<L><HI>Podex</HI> a Trumpeter is too,</L>
<L>And blows as &s;trong as you can do.</L>
<L><HI>Podex</HI> is, &mdash; Nay I fain would know,</L>
<L>What <HI>Podex</HI> is not? Which to &s;how</L>
<L>But in the Negative, would more</L>
<L>Puzle the Brain, then what, before,</L>
<L>Of him is &s;aid. In this, conclude,</L>
<L>That High, and Low, the fil'd, the rude,</L>
<L>The rich, the poor, the foul, the faire,</L>
<L>The-All the World, his Va&s;&s;als are.</L>
<L>Who dares with&s;tand his force and might</L>
<L>If once he &s;ayes, You mu&s;t go&mdash;Walk?</L>
<L><HI>Podex</HI> then only doth &s;urmount,</L>
<L><HI>Podex</HI> is &s;ole Lord Paramount.</L>
<L><HI>Podex</HI> &s;till mones within his Sphere;</L>
<L><HI>Podex</HI> is <HI>Podex</HI> ev'ry where.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Podex</HI> &s;hall breathe in &s;pite of Fate,</L>
<L>While Tails do croake, and Tongues do prate.</L>
</LG>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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<HEAD>PODEX His Vindication.</HEAD>
<L>IF carping <HI>Momes</HI> &s;hall flurt in <HI>Podex</HI>'s face</L>
<L>A Flout, to blur his Matter with Di&s;grace:</L>
<L><HI>Podex,</HI> with a full Breath, reflurts it back</L>
<L>Into their Teeth, that &s;o much wit do lack.</L>
<L>Sence queinter Pens have not di&s;dain'd the grain</L>
<L>Of &s;tuffs as cour&s;e as this: And, to this &s;train,</L>
<L>The Prince of modern <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Poets hath,</L>
<L>In his, term'd, <HI>Famous Voyage,</HI> trac'd a Path.</L>
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<HEAD>M. L. His Salutiferous Advice to the Feminine Gender.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>VVHen <HI>Podex</HI> &s;tout &s;hall cea&s;e to &s;peak.</L>
<L>Then, not before, your Hearts will break.</L>
<L>Take therefore care (you Simp'ring Ones)</L>
<L>He &s;till may breathe long-winded Tones.</L>
<L>No Mu&s;ick, were it of the Spheres,</L>
<L>Can, with like Raptures, charme your Ears.</L>
<L>No Ea&s;tern Sweets, or Fragrant Ro&s;e</L>
<L>Can more affect, and catch your No&s;e.</L>
<L>The&s;e only plea&s;e th' Externall Sen&s;e:</L>
<L>Tho&s;e have intrin&s;ick Excellence.</L>
<L>They oft let loo&s;e, where you are bound:</L>
<L>And, if di&s;temper'd, make you &s;ound.</L>
<L><HI>Podex,</HI> your Minion, charg'd, will give</L>
<L>True &s;trong Reports, That &s;till you live.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Which if &s;ome chance to take in &s;nuff,</L>
<L>Cry, <HI>Cladius,</HI> and it is enough.</L>
</LG>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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