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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B120913.pdcc.</ITEM>
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<STC T="W">G406A</STC>
<STC T="C">R177547</STC>
<BIBNO T="oclc">[ocm]64551286</BIBNO>
<VID>184586</VID>
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<HEAD>A Ballad on the Gyants in the Phy&s;ick Garden in OXFORD, who have been breeding feet as long as Garagantua was Teeth.</HEAD>
<OPENER>To the Tune of the Counter Scuffle.</OPENER>
<LG>
<L>WHat is our Oxford Africa?</L>
<L>It teemeth Mon&s;ters every day</L>
<L>About Ea&s;t-bridge which is the way</L>
<L>To <HI>Whately.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>In <HI>Boberts</HI> Garden there are two,</L>
<L>Which lately had nor foot nor &s;hoo,</L>
<L>Which now have both in publique view</L>
<L>mo&s;t &s;tately.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>That the&s;e are Gyants you may gue&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Byth' Foot as well as Hercules,</L>
<L>And as by Tallons nothing le&s;&s;e</L>
<L>Than th' Lyon.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>They'r Grimme as any dogge of Hell,</L>
<L>Though heads &s;o many we cant tell,</L>
<L>For only two (and yet that's well)</L>
<L>We &s;py on.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Two heads are better farre then one</L>
<L>In any Con&s;ultation,</L>
<L>But the&s;e don't joyn but fix like &s;tone,</L>
<L>Their Noddles.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>They &s;peak by Figures or by &s;ignes</L>
<L>Without Communication lines,</L>
<L>Or any Books of deep Divines</L>
<L>New Moddles.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Without th'Library or the place</L>
<L>At the South Port, where <HI>Bacons</HI> Face</L>
<L>A Fryar of our Engli&s;h Race</L>
<L>Did venture.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>On that men call, ble&s;&s;e us! Black Art,</L>
<L>By which he made the clowns to &s;tart,</L>
<L>And drove &s;ome of them with a F&mdash;</L>
<L>To th'Center.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>This <HI>Roger</HI> (&s;o his Forename &s;hews)</L>
<L>The&s;e heads did make, with Copper No&s;e</L>
<L>And taught them language that out goes</L>
<L>Our knowledge.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But how I wonder came their Feet</L>
<L>So greene, &s;o great, &s;o thick, &s;o neat</L>
<L>A hundred come them for to greet</L>
<L>From Colledge.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Nay one from <HI>Ricot</HI> of late dayes</L>
<L>Who 'mong th<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> Peers may wear the Bays</L>
<L>The&s;e verdant Gallants to their prai&s;e</L>
<L>Did vi&s;it.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Whereby the&s;e Gyants credit got</L>
<L>And he that late the Poem wrot,</L>
<L>But 'tis <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> Ballad, is it not?</L>
<L>Who'le mi&s;&s;e it.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Our Gyants are familiar</L>
<L>With Simpling Tribe, and mini&s;ter</L>
<L>The Plant, <HI>Tres-humble Serviteur.</HI></L>
<L>And Phy&s;ick</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Of Agrimony, Sage, and Rue</L>
<L>And garden Rhabarb, Do&s;ed true,</L>
<L>If <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>By <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>They guard a Book full of &s;uch Plants</L>
<L>And fright out &s;nailes, locu&s;ts, and Ants</L>
<L>And any vermin foule that haunts</L>
<L>The&s;e places.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Apples they doe pre&s;erve as good,</L>
<L>As in He&s;perian Orchard &s;tood,</L>
<L>Which make Lambs-wooll <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 line"></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>All &s;orts of Cherries doe grow here,</L>
<L>And &s;trawberries frequent appeare,</L>
<L>Conceive I pray at time oth' yeare,</L>
<L>For Winter</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>As well as Time, will nip &s;weet Face</L>
<L>And &s;poyle tho&s;e Colours Ladys Grace</L>
<L>When that Grim fire doth &s;et his Mace</L>
<L>Or Print there.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Here's medc'nall herbs for Galeni&s;ts,</L>
<L>Not powders for our new Chymi&s;ts</L>
<L>Who are lame <HI>Vulcans</HI> firy Prie&s;ts</L>
<L>And hammer</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Spirits out of the &s;imple leaves</L>
<L>And vig'rous du&s;t, which Je&s;uit gives</L>
<L>Far wor&s;e the patient oft receives</L>
<L>From's Gammer.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Alders-gate</HI> &s;treet doth not afford</L>
<L>Such heaps of hearbs for bed, or board,</L>
<L>Nor piles of Sallats, &s;awces &s;tor'd</L>
<L>For belly,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Nor We&s;tmin&s;ter, nor yet the Strand</L>
<L>Nor any Garden of the Land</L>
<L>Such hearbs as come through <HI>Jacobs</HI> hand</L>
<L>Can &s;ell yee.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Be&s;ides the Marvells of <HI>Peru,</HI></L>
<L>Of mo&s;t delicious various hue</L>
<L>No Painter can with pencill doe</L>
<L>Such colours.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>There's &s;temms of Alo's like Whale-bone,</L>
<L>And teeth like Sword-fi&s;h every one,</L>
<L>Yet never yet hurt any one</L>
<L>Oth' Scholars:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For <HI>Jacob</HI> and his Gyants will</L>
<L>Not &s;uffer any thing that's ill</L>
<L>(Unle&s;&s;e it be for purge or pill)</L>
<L>There growing,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For all the plants are of his paines,</L>
<L>He diggs, he &s;etts, but heaven raines</L>
<L>But 'las! he has but little gaines</L>
<L>For's Sowing.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>There is a youth call'd little <HI>Jack</HI></L>
<L>That &s;hall with working break his back</L>
<L>(Unle&s;&s;e his breakfa&s;t he do lack)</L>
<L>Hee'l muck it</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Like any plowman in the field</L>
<L>Untill the ground her fruit doe yeeld,</L>
<L>So of't with water hath he fill'd</L>
<L>His Bucket.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>What would you more then Gyants high</L>
<L>Forbeare yee to approach too nigh,</L>
<L>You'l fright the Lady <HI>Dulciny</HI></L>
<L><HI>TO BOSO.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And yet that Lady hath a Knight</L>
<L>That wil drink w<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">hen he &s;hould li<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> his might</L>
<L>To doe &s;o.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>To all adventures dangerous,</L>
<L>As the Mill nigh can tell to us,</L>
<L>This Knight w<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters"> &s;ome times ficrcely ru&s;h</L>
<L>And's Man &s;terne</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Theres no av<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">ding of that Knight,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 line"></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 line"></L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> Lanthorne.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Not <HI>Faux</HI>-like on a black de&s;igne</L>
<L>To mirth he only doth incline</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">nd hath a Page, if no Moon &s;hine,</L>
<L>Attending</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For hee'l not carry coales nor light</L>
<L>Nor yet his Squire, who goes upright</L>
<L>But yet they are for any wight</L>
<L>Defending</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Or injur'd Lady, or Fleec'd &s;heepe</L>
<L>Good lack what Racket they doe keep</L>
<L>And never Eat, nor Drink, nor Sleepe</L>
<L>Till Gyant,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And one-eyd Mon&s;ters humbled are</L>
<L>Unto their feet, which &s;mell mo&s;t rare,</L>
<L>With making con&s;tant Fewd, and warre</L>
<L>&ocirc; Fie on't!</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>What though the&s;e Gyants harne&s;t be</L>
<L>Compleatly too, That's Cap a Pe,</L>
<L>And can with Feet deale lu&s;tily</L>
<L>In boxes.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Yet Don <HI>Quixot</HI> is arm'd all&s;o</L>
<L>With bra&s;&s;e helmet of <HI>Mambrino</HI></L>
<L>Hee'l &s;uffer them no harme to do</L>
<L>To's doxes:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>So that 'tis prudence to induce</L>
<L>The Knight and Giants to a Truce,</L>
<L>That we the Garden &s;till may u&s;e</L>
<L>In quiet,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And drink what &s;prings from Scurvy gras</L>
<L>(Without making a &s;curvy face,)</L>
<L>So &s;hall we keep this plea&s;ant place</L>
<L>From Riot</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And filthy Routs which &s;poile &s;oft joyes,</L>
<L>The &s;ports of the mad Girles, and Boyes,</L>
<L>When they are in their merry Toyes</L>
<L>And Ranting</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But <HI>Bobert</HI> is a &s;ober &s;oule</L>
<L>And watches like an <HI>Athens</HI> Oule</L>
<L>To &s;ee of mirth no lawfull jowle</L>
<L>Be wanting.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But if the Poet, as is meet,</L>
<L>For the&s;e his paines you do not greet</L>
<L>He thus takes pennance in a &s;heet</L>
<L>To plea&s;e you.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>In Print when he doth next appeare</L>
<L>He hopes to make it plaine and cleare</L>
<L>That of your Melancholy feare</L>
<L>Hee'l ea&s;e you,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If not hee'l lay another gin</L>
<L>And try to catch you once therein</L>
<L>To put you on a merry pin</L>
<L>And jolly:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If then he failes his <HI>Badger</HI> rimes</L>
<L>Shall to the tune of <HI>Carfax</HI> Chimes.</L>
<L>Sing <HI>Nought <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">l plea&s;e the pre&s;ent times</HI></L>
<L><HI>But Folly.</HI></L>
</LG>
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<TRAILER>FINIS. <ADD>1662</ADD></TRAILER>
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