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<P>TOBACCO BATTERED; &amp; THE PIPES <HI>SHATTERED</HI> (About their Eares <HI>that idlely Idolize</HI> &s;o ba&s;e &amp; barbarous a WEED; OR <HI>at lea&s;t-Wi&s;e</HI> ouer-loue &s;o loath&s;ome <HI>VANITIE:</HI>) by <HI>A Volley of holy Shot</HI> Thundered <HI>From Mount</HI> HELICON.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="anagram">
<PB REF="2">
<HEAD>A Double Anagram,</HEAD>
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<Q><L>George Viliers: Sir George Viliers,</L>
<L>Re-giue glories: Glorie-giuers ri&s;e.</L></Q>
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<L>SIr, <HI>Re-giue glories: Glorie-giuers ri&s;e.</HI></L>
<L>How fits your happy <HI>Fate,</HI> your happy <HI>Name!</HI></L>
<L>Wherein, a <HI>Precept</HI> with a <HI>Promi&s;e</HI> lies,</L>
<L>Pre&s;aging Good to grace-full <HI>BVCKINGHAM:</HI></L>
<L>For, be you Grate-full for your <HI>Dignities;</HI></L>
<L><HI>GOD</HI> and the <HI>KING</HI> will &s;till <HI>increa&s;e</HI> the &s;ame.</L>
<L><HI>GOD, while you honour Him,</HI> will <HI>honour</HI> You:</L>
<L>The <HI>KING</HI> will <HI>fauour,</HI> while you <HI>&s;erue</HI> Him, <HI>trew.</HI></L>
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<DIV1 TYPE="dedicatory verse or poem">
<PB REF="2">
<HEAD>To the right Honourable S^r. GEORGE VILIERS, K^t. <HI>Baron of Whaddon: L. Vicount Viliers:</HI> EARLE of BVCKINGHAM: Ma&s;ter of the Hor&s;e to his Ma^t^y. &amp; <HI>Knight of the mo&s;t Noble Order of the Garter,</HI> &amp;c.</HEAD>
<L>YOur Noble <HI>Order,</HI> and your hallowed <HI>Name,</HI></L>
<L>Your <HI>Soueraign's</HI> Fauor, &amp; your owne <HI>Profe&s;sion,</HI></L>
<L>Promi&s;e Your <HI>Valour</HI> towards the <HI>Suppre&s;sion</HI></L>
<L>Of <HI>Heathen</HI> Foes that <HI>Chri&s;tian</HI> FAITH defame:</L>
<L>Hence, here <HI>pre&s;ume</HI> we (by the Trump of Fame)</L>
<L>To call your <HI>Aide</HI> again&s;t the proud <HI>Oppre&s;sion</HI></L>
<L>Of th' <HI>Infidel</HI> v&s;urping FAITH'S Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion,</L>
<L>That <HI>Indian</HI> Tyrant, onely <HI>Englands</HI> Shame.</L>
<L>Thou&s;ands of <HI>Ours</HI> here hath He Captiue taken,</L>
<L>Of all Degrees, kept vnder &s;laui&s;h Yoak,</L>
<L>Their <HI>God,</HI> their Good, <HI>King,</HI> Country, Friends for&s;aken</L>
<L>To follow <HI>Follie</HI> and to feed on <HI>Smoake.</HI></L>
<L>Be GOD our <HI>Guide,</HI> S^t. GEORGE our <HI>Generall;</HI></L>
<L>VVee &s;hall <HI>repell</HI> Him, and <HI>redeem</HI> Them All.</L>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>At Yo^r. Lo^p^s. Command</HI> IS The humble Eccho of The MVSES.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<DIV1 TYPE="prefatory verse or poem">
<PB REF="3">
<HEAD>A Warning-Piece.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>RIght noble <HI>Nobles,</HI> Generous <HI>Gentlemen,</HI></L>
<L>Louers of <HI>Honor,</HI> and Your <HI>Countries</HI> Weal;</L>
<L>You'l need no <HI>VVarning</HI> to auoid our <HI>Peal;</HI></L>
<L>Nor are in <HI>Leuel</HI> of our <HI>Poudered</HI> Pen:</L>
<L>Nor <HI>Tho&s;e</HI> that Yet will <HI>yeeld,</HI> and turne agen</L>
<L>From th' <HI>Idol-Seruice</HI> of their <HI>Smoaky Zeal,</HI></L>
<L>To &s;erue their <HI>GOD,</HI> their <HI>KING,</HI> their <HI>Co~mon-weale</HI></L>
<L>We &s;hoot at <HI>Manners,</HI> we would &s;aue the <HI>Men.</HI></L>
<L>But, Tho&s;e <HI>rebellious</HI> that will &s;till <HI>&s;tand out</HI></L>
<L>Vnder the <HI>Standard</HI> of our Heathen Foe,</L>
<L>With <HI>Pipe</HI> and <HI>Pudding</HI> rampir'd round about,</L>
<L><HI>Puffing</HI> &amp; <HI>Snuffing</HI> at their threatned <HI>VVoe;</HI></L>
<L>At &s;uch, our <HI>Canon</HI> &s;hall Here <HI>thunder</HI> thick:</L>
<L><HI>Gunner,</HI> your Lin-&s;tock, Come, <HI>giue Fier quick.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Tis be&s;t Prai&s;e-worthy, To haue pleas'd the Be&s;t:</HI></L>
<L>This Wee endeauour; and defie the re&s;t.</L>
</LG>
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<DIV1 TYPE="poem">
<PB REF="3">
<HEAD>TOBACCO BATTERED.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>WHAT-euer GOD <HI>created,</HI> fir&s;t was <HI>good,</HI></L>
<L>And good for Man, while Man vprightly &s;tood</L>
<L>But, falling Angels cau&s;ing Man to fall,</L>
<L>His foule <HI>Contagion</HI> con-corrupted All</L>
<L>His fellow-Creatures, for his Sinne accur&s;t,</L>
<L>And for his &s;ake transformed from their Fir&s;t;</L>
<L>Till GOD and MAN, Mans Leprie to re-cure,</L>
<L>By Death kild <HI>Death,</HI> re-making <HI>All things</HI> pure:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But, <HI>To the pure;</HI> not to the &s;til-Prophane,</L>
<L>Who (Spider-like) turne Ble&s;&s;ings into Bane;</L>
<L>V&s;urping (right-les, thank-les-need-les) heer,</L>
<L>In wanton, wilfull, wa&s;tefull, lu&s;tfull Cheer,</L>
<L>Earths plentious Crop, which GOD hath onely giuen</L>
<L>Vnto his Owne, (Heires both of Earth and Heauen)</L>
<L>Who onely (rightly) may with <HI>Prai&s;e</HI> and <HI>Prayer,</HI></L>
<L>Enioy th'increa&s;e of Earth, of Sea, and Ayre,</L>
<L>Fowle, Fi&s;h, and Fle&s;h, Gems, Metalls, Cattell, Plants;</L>
<L>And namely, (That which now no <HI>Ingle</HI> wants)</L>
<L>Indian TOBACCO, when due cau&s;e requires;</L>
<L>Not the drie <HI>Drop&s;ie</HI> of <HI>Phanta&s;ticke</HI> Squires.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="82" REF="4">
<L>None therefore deeme that I am now to learne</L>
<L>(How euer dim I many things di&s;cerne)</L>
<L>Rea&s;on and Sea&s;on, to di&s;tingui&s;h fit</L>
<L>Th'<HI>V&s;e</HI> of a thing, from the <HI>Abu&s;e</HI> of it;</L>
<L><HI>Drinking,</HI> from <HI>drunking, Saccharum cum Sacco;</HI></L>
<L>And <HI>taking of,</HI> from <HI>taking all TOBACCO.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Yet out of high Di&s;daine and Indignation,</L>
<L>Of that &s;terne Tyrant's &s;trange&s;t V&s;urpation,</L>
<L>Once, demi-Captiue to his <HI>puffing Pride,</HI></L>
<L>(As millions are, too-wilfull foolifi'd)</L>
<L>Needs mu&s;t I band again&s;t the <HI>need-le&s;&s;e V&s;e</HI></L>
<L>Of Don TOBACCO, and his <HI>foule Abu&s;e:</HI></L>
<L>Which (though in <HI>Inde</HI> it be an Herbe indeed)</L>
<L>In <HI>Europe,</HI> is no better then a Weed;</L>
<L>Which to their <HI>Idols Pagans</HI> &s;acrifize,</L>
<L>And <HI>Chri&s;tians</HI> (heer) doe wel-nigh <HI>Idolize:</HI></L>
<L>Which taking, <HI>Heathens</HI> to the Diuels bow</L>
<L>Their Bodies; <HI>Chri&s;tians,</HI> euen their Soules do vow.</L>
<L>Yet th' <HI>Heathen</HI> haue, with th'<HI>Ill,</HI> &s;ome <HI>Good</HI> withall;</L>
<L>Sith, Their <HI>con-natiue,</HI> 'tis <HI>con-natural.</HI></L>
<L>But, &s;ee the nature of abounding Sinne,</L>
<L>Which more abounding Puni&s;hment doth winne</L>
<L>For <HI>knowing</HI> Seruants wilfull Arrogance,</L>
<L>Then <HI>filly</HI> Strangers &s;auage Ignorance.</L>
<PB N="83" REF="4">
<L>For, what to Them is Meat and Med'cinable,</L>
<L>Is turn'd to Vs a Plague intollerable.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Two &s;moakie Engines,</HI> in this latter Age</L>
<L>(<HI>Sathans</HI> &s;hort Circuit; the more &s;harp his rage)</L>
<L>Haue beene inuented by too-vanted Wit,</L>
<L>Or rather, vented from th'<HI>Infernal Pit,</HI></L>
<L>GVNS &amp; TOBACCO-PIPES, with Fire and <HI>Smoak,</HI></L>
<L>(At lea&s;t) a Third part of Mankind to <HI>choak:</HI></L>
<L>(Which, happely,<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">9. 17.</NOTE> th' <HI>Apocalyps</HI> fore-told)</L>
<L>Yet of the <HI>Two,</HI> We may (thinke I) be bold,</L>
<L>In &s;ome re&s;pects, to thinke the La&s;t, the Wor&s;t,</L>
<L>(How-euer Both in their Effects accur&s;t.)</L>
<L>For, <HI>Gunns</HI> &s;hoot <HI>from-ward,</HI> onely at their Foen;</L>
<L><HI>Tobacco-Pipes, home-ward,</HI> into their Owne</L>
<L>(When, for the Touch-hole, firing the wrong end,</L>
<L>Into our Selues the Poy&s;ons force we &s;end:)</L>
<L>Tho&s;e, in the Field, in braue and ho&s;tile manner;</L>
<L>The&s;e, Cowardly, vnder a Couert Banner:</L>
<L>Tho&s;e, with Defiance, in a Threatfull Terror;</L>
<L>The&s;e, with Affiance, in a Wilfull Error:</L>
<L>Tho&s;e, (though loud-roaring, goaring-deep) quick-ridding;</L>
<L>The&s;e, &s;tilly &s;tealing, longer Languors breeding:</L>
<L>Tho&s;e, full of pain (perhaps) and fell de&s;pight:</L>
<L>The&s;e, with fal&s;e Plea&s;ure, and a &s;eem-delight</L>
<PB N="84" REF="5">
<L>(As Cats with Mice, Spiders with Flies) full rife</L>
<L>Pipe-playing, dallying, &amp; deluding Life.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Who would not wonder, in the&s;e Sunny-Dayes</L>
<L>(So bright illightned with the GOSPEL's Rayes)</L>
<L>Whence &s;o-much <HI>Smoak,</HI> &amp; deadly Vapors come,</L>
<L>To dim &amp; damne &s;o much of <HI>Christendome?</HI></L>
<L>But, wee mu&s;t ponder too, The&s;e Dayes are Tho&s;e</L>
<L>Wherein the Diuell was to be let lo&s;e;</L>
<L>And Yawning broad Gate of that black <HI>Aby&s;&s;e</HI></L>
<L>To bee &s;et ope, who&s;e Bottome bound-les is;</L>
<L>That <HI>Sathan,</HI> de&s;tin'd, euermore to dwell</L>
<L>In <HI>Smoakie</HI> Fornace of that <HI>darke&s;ome</HI> Cell,</L>
<L>In <HI>Smoak</HI> &amp; <HI>Darknes</HI> might inure &amp; train</L>
<L>His Owne deere Minions, while they heer remain;</L>
<L>As roaguing <HI>Gyp&s;ies,</HI> tan their little Elves,</L>
<L>To make them tann'd and oughe, like them Selves.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Then, in De&s;pight, who-ever dare &s;ay Nay,</L>
<L>TOBACCONISTS, keep-on your Cour&s;e: You may,</L>
<L>If you continew in your <HI>Smoakie</HI> Vre,</L>
<L>The better fat Hell's &s;ulphurie <HI>Smoak</HI> indure;</L>
<L>And heerin (as in All your other Euill)</L>
<L>Grow neerer &s;till and liker to the Diuell:</L>
<L>Saue that the Diuell (if hee could re-voke)</L>
<L>Would fly from filthy &amp; vnhealthy <HI>Smoak;</HI></L>
<PB N="85" REF="5">
<L>Wherein (ca&s;t out of Heauen for helli&s;h Pride)</L>
<L>Vn-willing Hee, and Forced doth abide:</L>
<L>Which, heerin wor&s;e than Hee (the wor&s;t of Ill)</L>
<L>You long-for, lu&s;t-for, lie-for, die-for &s;till:</L>
<L>For as the <HI>Salamander</HI> liues in Fire,</L>
<L>You liue in <HI>Smoake;</HI> and with-out <HI>Smoake</HI> expire.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>SHould it be que&s;tion'd (as right well it may)</L>
<L>Whether Di&s;couerie of <HI>AMERICA,</HI></L>
<L>That <HI>New-found World,</HI> haue yeelded to our Ould</L>
<L>More Hurt or Good: Till fuller An&s;wer &s;hould</L>
<L>Decide the Doubt and quite determine it,</L>
<L>Thus for the pre&s;ent might we an&s;wer fit:</L>
<L>That Thereby Wee haue (rightly vnder&s;tood)</L>
<L>Both giuen and taken greater Hurt then Good:</L>
<L>And that on both &s;ides, both for <HI>Christians</HI></L>
<L>It had been better, and for <HI>Indians,</HI></L>
<L>That onely Good men to their Coa&s;t had come,</L>
<L>Or, that the Euill had &s;till &s;taid at home.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For, what our People haue brought Thence to vs,</L>
<L>Is like the Head-peece of a <HI>Polypus,</HI></L>
<L>Wherein is (quoted, by &s;age <HI>Plutarch's</HI> Quill)</L>
<L><HI>A Pe&s;t'lence great good, and great Pe&s;t'lence ill.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Wee had from Them, fir&s;t, to augment our Stocks.</L>
<L>Two grand Di&s;ea&s;es, <HI>Scuruie</HI> and <HI>The Rocks:</HI></L>
<PB N="86" REF="6">
<L>Then, <HI>Two</HI> great <HI>Cordials</HI> (for a Counterpeize)</L>
<L><HI>Gold</HI> and TOBACCO; both which, many waies,</L>
<L>Haue done more Mi&s;chief than the former Twaine;</L>
<L>And All together brought more Lo&s;&s;e then Gain.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But, true it is, we had this Tra&s;h of Theirs,</L>
<L>Onely in Barter, for our broken Wares.</L>
<L>Ours, for the mo&s;t part, caried out but Sin;</L>
<L>And, for the mo&s;t part, brought but Vengeance, in:</L>
<L>Their Fraight was <HI>Sloth, Lu&s;t, Auarice,</HI> &amp; <HI>Drink</HI></L>
<L>(A Burthen, able with the Waight, to &s;ink</L>
<L>The huge&s;t Carrak; yea, tho&s;e hallowed <HI>Twelue,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Spains</HI> great <HI>Apo&s;tles</HI> euen to ouer-whelue)</L>
<L>They caried <HI>Sloath,</HI> &amp; brought home <HI>Skuruy-skin,</HI></L>
<L>They caried <HI>Lu&s;t,</HI> and brought home <HI>Pocks</HI> within:</L>
<L>They caried <HI>Auarice,</HI> and <HI>Gold</HI> they got:</L>
<L>They caried <HI>Bacchus,</HI> &amp; TOBACCO brought.</L>
<L>Alas, poore <HI>Indians!</HI> that but <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> None</L>
<L>Could put them downe in their owne Trade alone!</L>
<L>That none, but <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> (more Alas! more &s;trange!)</L>
<L>Could iu&s;tifie their pitifull Exchange.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Of All the Plants that <HI>Tellus</HI> bo&s;ome yeelds,</L>
<L>In Groues, Glades, Gardens, Mar&s;hes, Mountains, Fields,</L>
<L>None &s;o pernitious to Mans Life is knowne,</L>
<L>As is TOBACCO, &s;auing HEMP alone.</L>
<PB N="87" REF="6">
<L>Betwixt which Two there &s;eemes great Sympathy,</L>
<L>To ruinate poore <HI>Adam's</HI> Progeny:</L>
<L>For, in them Both a <HI>&s;trangling</HI> vertue note,</L>
<L>And Both of them doo worke vpon the Throte,</L>
<L>The one, within it; and without, the other;</L>
<L>And th'one prepareth Worke vnto the tother.</L>
<L>For, There doo meet (I mean at <HI>Gayle</HI> &amp; <HI>Gallowes</HI>)</L>
<L>More of the&s;e bea&s;tly, ba&s;e TOBACCO-Fellowes,</L>
<L>Then el&s;e to any prophane Haunt doo v&s;e,</L>
<L>(Excepting &s;til <HI>The Play-hou&s;e</HI> and <HI>The Stewes</HI>)</L>
<L>Sith 'tis Their common Lot, (&s;o double-choaked)</L>
<L>Iu&s;t, bacon-like, to be <HI>hangd vp,</HI> and <HI>&s;moaked:</HI></L>
<L>A De&s;tinie, as proper to befall</L>
<L>To morall Swine, as to Swine naturall.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If there be any <HI>Herbe,</HI> in any place,</L>
<L>Mo&s;t oppo&s;ite to GOD's good <HI>Herb-of-grace,</HI></L>
<L>'Tis doubt-les This: and this doeth plainly proue-it,</L>
<L>That, for the mo&s;t, mo&s;t <HI>grace-les</HI> men doo loue-it,</L>
<L>Or rather, doat mo&s;t on this <HI>wither'd Weed,</HI></L>
<L>Them Selues as <HI>wither'd</HI> in all <HI>gracious Deed.</HI></L>
<L>'Tis &s;trange to &s;ee, (and vnto me, a Wonder)</L>
<L>When the prodigious &s;trange Abu&s;e we ponder,</L>
<L>Of this vnruly, ru&s;tie <HI>Vegetal;</HI></L>
<L>From moderne <HI>Symmi&s;ts Ie&s;u-Critical,</HI></L>
<PB N="88" REF="7">
<L>(Carping at Vs, and ca&s;ting in our Di&s;h,</L>
<L>Not Crimes, but Crums: as eating Fle&s;h for Fi&s;h:)</L>
<L>W'hear in This Ca&s;e, no Con&s;cience-Ca&s;es holier.</L>
<L>But, <HI>like to like; The Diuell with the Collier.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For, a TOBACCONIST (I dare auer)</L>
<L>Is, fir&s;t of all, a rank <HI>Idolater,</HI></L>
<L>As any of th' <HI>Ignation Hierarchie:</HI></L>
<L>Next, as conformed to Their Fopperie,</L>
<L><HI>Of burning Day-light, and Good-night at Noone,</HI></L>
<L>Setting vp <HI>Candles</HI> to enlight the Sun:</L>
<L>And la&s;t, the Kingdome of NEVV-BABYLON</L>
<L>Stands in a <HI>Darke</HI> and <HI>Smoakie</HI> Region;</L>
<L>So full of &s;uch varietie of <HI>Smoaks,</HI></L>
<L>That there-with all all <HI>Pietie</HI> it choakes.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For, There is, Fir&s;t, the <HI>Smoake</HI> of Ignorance,</L>
<L>The <HI>Smoake</HI> of Error, <HI>Smoake</HI> of Arrogance,</L>
<L>The <HI>Smoake</HI> of Merit &s;uper-er'gatorie,</L>
<L>The <HI>Smoak</HI> of <HI>Pardons Smoaks</HI> of PVRGATORIE</L>
<L>The <HI>Smoake</HI> of Cen&s;ing <HI>Smoake</HI> of <HI>Thurifying</HI></L>
<L>Of Images, of <HI>Sathan's Furie-flying,</HI></L>
<L>The <HI>Smoake</HI> of Stewes (for <HI>Smoaking</HI> thence they come,</L>
<L>As horrid hot as torrid <HI>Sodome,</HI> &s;ome):</L>
<L>Then, <HI>Smoake</HI> of POVDER-TREASON, <HI>Pi&s;tols, Kniues,</HI></L>
<L>To blow-vp Kingdomes, and blow-out <HI>Kings</HI> Liues;</L>
<PB N="89" REF="7">
<L>And la&s;tly, too, TOBACCO's <HI>Smoakie</HI>-Mi&s;ts,</L>
<L>Which (comming from <HI>Iberian</HI> BAALISTS)</L>
<L>No &s;mall addition of Adu&s;tion fit</L>
<L>Bring to the <HI>Smoake</HI> of the <HI>Vnbottom'd</HI> PIT,</L>
<L>Yer&s;t opened, fir&s;t, (<HI>as openeth Saint</HI> IOHN)</L>
<L>By their ABADDON &amp; APOLLYON.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But, &s;ith They are contented to admire</L>
<L>What They di&s;like not, if they not de&s;ire</L>
<L>(For, with good rea&s;on may wee ghe&s;&s;e that They</L>
<L>Who &s;wallow Camels, &s;wallow Gnatlings may);</L>
<L>Tis ground enough for vs, in this Di&s;pute,</L>
<L>Their <HI>Vanities,</HI> thus obuious, to refute</L>
<L>(Their <HI>Vanities, my&s;terious Mi&s;ts of</HI> ROME,</L>
<L>Which haue &s;o long be <HI>&s;moaked</HI> CHRISTENDOM).</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And for the re&s;t, it &s;hall &s;uffice, to &s;ay,</L>
<L>TOBACCONING is but a <HI>Smoakie</HI> Play.</L>
<L>Strong Arguments again&s;t &s;o weake a thing,</L>
<L>Were need-le&s;s, or vn&s;uitable, to bring.</L>
<L>In this behalfe there needs no more be done,</L>
<L>Sith of it Selfe the &s;ame will vani&s;h &s;oone:</L>
<L>T' euaporate <HI>This Smoake,</HI> it is enough</L>
<L>But with a Breath the &s;ame a&s;ide to puffe.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>NOw, My Fir&s;t Puffe &s;hall but repell th'ill-Sauour</L>
<L>Of Place &amp; Per&s;ons (of debaucht behauiour)</L>
<PB N="90" REF="8">
<L>Where 'tis mo&s;t frequent: Second, &s;hew you will,</L>
<L>How little <HI>Good</HI> it dooth: Third, how great <HI>Ill.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>'Tis vented mo&s;t in Tauerns, Tippling-cots,</L>
<L>To Ruffians, Roarers, Tip&s;ie-To&s;tie-Pots;</L>
<L>Who&s;e Cu&s;tome is, betweene the <HI>Pipe</HI> and <HI>Pot,</HI></L>
<L>(Th'one Cold and Moi&s;t, the other Dry and Hot)</L>
<L>To skirmi&s;h &s;o (like Sword-and-Dagger-fight)</L>
<L>That 'tis not ea&s;ie to determine right,</L>
<L>Which of their weapons hath the Conque&s;t got</L>
<L>Ouer their Wits; the <HI>Pipe,</HI> or el&s;e the <HI>Pot.</HI></L>
<L>Yet, 'tis apparant, and by proofe expre&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Both &s;tab and wound the Braine with <HI>Drunkenne&s;&s;e:</HI></L>
<L>For, euen the <HI>Deriuation</HI> of the <HI>Name,</HI></L>
<L>Seemes to allude and to include the &s;ame:</L>
<L>TOBACCO, as <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF">, one would &s;ay;</L>
<L>To (Cup-god) BACCHVS <HI>dedicated aye.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And, for Conclu&s;ion of this Point, ob&s;erue,</L>
<L>The Places which to the&s;e <HI>Abu&s;es</HI> &s;erue,</L>
<L>How-euer, of them Selues, noi&s;ome ynough,</L>
<L>Are much more loath&s;om with the &s;tench &amp; &s;tuffe,</L>
<L>Extracted from their <HI>limbeckt</HI> Lips and No&s;e.</L>
<L>So that, the Hou&s;es, common Haunts of Tho&s;e,</L>
<L>Are liker Hell then Heau'n: for Hell hath <HI>Smoake;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Impenitent</HI> TOBACCONISTS to choake,</L>
<PB N="91" REF="8">
<L>Though neuer dead: There &s;hall they haue their Fill:</L>
<L>In Heau'n is none, but Light and Glory &s;till.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Next: Multitudes them daily, howrely drowne</L>
<L>In this black Sea <HI>of Smoak,</HI> to&s;t vp and downe</L>
<L>In This va&s;t <HI>Ocean,</HI> of &s;uch <HI>Latitude,</HI></L>
<L>That <HI>Europe</HI> onely cannot all include,</L>
<L>But out it ru&s;hes, ouer-runns the Whole,</L>
<L>And reaches, wel-nigh round, from <HI>Pole</HI> to <HI>Pole;</HI></L>
<L>Among the <HI>Moores, Turks, Tartars, Per&s;ians,</HI></L>
<L>And other <HI>Ethnicks</HI> (full of Ignorance</L>
<L>Of GOD and <HI>Good:</HI>) and, if wee &s;hall look home,</L>
<L>To view (and rew) the State of CHRISTENDOME,</L>
<L>Vpon This Point, we may This <HI>Riddle</HI> bring;</L>
<L><HI>The Subiect hath more Subiects than the King.</HI></L>
<L>For, Don TOBACCO hath an ampler Raign,</L>
<L>Than Don PHILIPPO, the Great <HI>King of Spain,</HI></L>
<L>(In who&s;e Dominions, for the mo&s;t, it growes).</L>
<L>Nay, &s;hall I &s;ay, (O Horror, to &s;uppo&s;e!)</L>
<L><HI>Heath'ni&s;h</HI> TOBACCO (almo&s;t euery where)</L>
<L>In <HI>Chri&s;tendome</HI> (CHRISTS <HI>out-ward Kingdom</HI> here)</L>
<L>Hath more <HI>Di&s;ciples</HI> than CHRIST hath (I feare)</L>
<L>More Suite, more Seruice (Bodies, Souls, &amp; Good)</L>
<L>Than CHRIST, that bought vs with his precious Blood.</L>
<PB N="92" REF="9">
<L>O Great TOBACCO! Greater than Great <HI>Can,</HI></L>
<L>Great <HI>Turk,</HI> Great <HI>Tartar,</HI> or Great <HI>Tamberlan!</HI></L>
<L>With Vulturs wings Thou ha&s;t (and &s;wifter yet</L>
<L>Than an <HI>Hungarian Ague, Engli&s;h Sweat</HI>)</L>
<L>Through all Degrees, flown, far, nigh; vp &amp; down;</L>
<L>From Court to Cart; fro~ <HI>Count</HI> to Country Clown,</L>
<L>Not &s;corning <HI>Scullions, Coblers, Colliers,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Iakes-farmers, Fidlers, O&s;tlers, Oy&s;terers,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Rogues, Gyp&s;es, Players, Pandars, Punks,</HI> and All</L>
<L>What <HI>common Scums</HI> in <HI>Common-Sewers</HI> fall.</L>
<L>For, all, as <HI>Va&s;&s;als,</HI> at Thy Beck are bent,</L>
<L>And breathe by Thee, as their <HI>new Element.</HI></L>
<L>Which well may proue Thy <HI>Monarchy</HI> the Greater,</L>
<L>Yet proue not Thee to be a whit the Better;</L>
<L>But rather Wor&s;e: For <HI>Hell's</HI> wide-open Road</L>
<L>Is ea&s;ie&s;t found, and by the Mo&s;t &s;till troad.</L>
<L>Which, euen the <HI>Heathen</HI> had the Light to know</L>
<L>By Arguments, as many times they &s;how.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Heer may wee al&s;o gather (for a need)</L>
<L>Whether TOBACCO be an <HI>Herb</HI> or <HI>Weed:</HI></L>
<L>And Whether the exce&s;&s;iue V&s;e be fit,</L>
<L>Or good or bad; by tho&s;e that fauour it,</L>
<L><HI>Weeds,</HI> wild and wicked, mo&s;tly entertain it:</L>
<L><HI>Herbes,</HI> hole&s;om <HI>Herbes,</HI> and holy minds di&s;dain it.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="93" REF="9">
<L>If then, TOBACCONING be good: How is't,</L>
<L>That lewde&s;t, loo&s;e&s;t ba&s;e&s;t, fooli&s;he&s;t,</L>
<L>The mo&s;t vnthrifty, mo&s;t intemperate,</L>
<L>Mo&s;t vicious, mo&s;t debau&s;cht, mo&s;t de&s;perate,</L>
<L>Pur&s;ue it mo&s;t: The Wi&s;e&s;t and the Be&s;t</L>
<L>Abhor it, &s;hun it flie it, as the Pe&s;t,</L>
<L>Or piercing Poy&s;on of a Dragons Whisk,</L>
<L>Or deadly Eye-&s;hot of a Ba&s;ilisk?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If <HI>Wi&s;edome</HI> baulk it, mu&s;t it not be <HI>Folly?</HI></L>
<L>If <HI>Vertue</HI> hate it, is it not vnholy?</L>
<L>If Men of Worth, and Minds right <HI>generous</HI></L>
<L>Di&s;card it, &s;corne it: is't not <HI>&s;candalous?</HI></L>
<L>And (to conclude) is it not, to the Diuell</L>
<L>Mo&s;t plea&s;ing; plea&s;ing &s;o (mo&s;t) the mo&s;t Euill.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>MY &s;econd <HI>Puffe,</HI> is Proof <HI>How little Good</HI></L>
<L>This <HI>Smoak</HI> hath done (that euer heare I cou'd)</L>
<L>For, fir&s;t, there's none that takes TOBACCO mo&s;t,</L>
<L>Mo&s;t v&s;ually, mo&s;t earne&s;tly, can boa&s;t</L>
<L>That the exce&s;&s;iue and continuall v&s;e</L>
<L>Of This <HI>dry Suck-at</HI> euer did produce</L>
<L>Him any Good, Ciuill, or Naturall,</L>
<L>Or Morall Good, or Artificiall:</L>
<L>Vnle&s;&s;e perhaps they will alleadge it, drawes</L>
<L>Away the Ill which &s;till it Selfe doth cau&s;e.</L>
<PB N="94" REF="10">
<L>Which Cour&s;e (me thinks) I cannot liken better,</L>
<L>Then to an <HI>V&s;urer's</HI> Kindne&s;&s;e to his <HI>Debter;</HI></L>
<L>Who, vnder Shew <HI>of Lending,</HI> &s;til &s;ub&s;tracts</L>
<L>The <HI>Debters</HI> Owne, and then His owne exacts;</L>
<L>Til at the la&s;t he vtterly confound-him,</L>
<L>Or leaue him Wor&s;e &amp; Weaker then he found-him.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Next, if the Cu&s;tome of TOBACCONING</L>
<L>Yeeld th'V&s;ers any <HI>Good,</HI> in any thing;</L>
<L>Either they <HI>haue it,</HI> or they <HI>hope</HI> it pre&s;t:</L>
<L>(By proofe and practice, taking &s;til the be&s;t)</L>
<L>For, none but Fooles wil the~ to Ought be &s;laue,</L>
<L>Whence Benefit they neither <HI>hope,</HI> nor <HI>haue:</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Therfore, yet farther (as a <HI>Que&s;tioni&s;t</HI>)</L>
<L>I mu&s;t inquire of my TOBACCONIST,</L>
<L>Why, if a <HI>Chri&s;tian</HI> (as &s;ome, &s;ometimes &s;eeme)</L>
<L>Belieuing GOD, waiting all <HI>Good</HI> from Him,</L>
<L>And vnto Him all <HI>Good</HI> again referring;</L>
<L>Why (to e&s;chew th'Vngodly's <HI>Grace-les</HI> erring)</L>
<L>Why pray they not? Why <HI>prai&s;e</HI> they not His Name</L>
<L>For <HI>hoped Good,</HI> &amp; <HI>Good had</HI> by this Same?</L>
<L>As all men doo, or ought to doo, for All</L>
<L>The Gifts &amp; <HI>Goods</HI> that from His GOODNES fall.</L>
<L>Is't not, becau&s;e they neither <HI>hope,</HI> nor <HI>haue,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Good (Hence) to thank</HI> GOD for, nor farther <HI>craue:</HI></L>
<PB N="95" REF="10">
<L>But, as they had it from the <HI>Heathen,</HI> fir&s;t;</L>
<L>So <HI>Heath'ni&s;hly</HI> they v&s;e it &s;till, accur&s;t:</L>
<L>And (as &s;ome ie&s;t <HI>of Oy&s;ters</HI>) This is more</L>
<L><HI>Vngodly Meat,</HI> both <HI>After</HI> and <HI>Before.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>La&s;tly, if all Delights of all Mankind</L>
<L>Be <HI>Vanitie, Vexation</HI> of the Mind;</L>
<L>All vnder Sunne: Mu&s;t not TOBACCO be,</L>
<L><HI>Of Vanities,</HI> the vaine&s;t <HI>Vanitie?</HI></L>
<L><HI>If Salomon,</HI> the Wi&s;e&s;t earthly Prince,</L>
<L>That euer was before, or hath bin &s;ince;</L>
<L>Knowing All Plants, and them peru&s;ing All,</L>
<L>From <HI>Cedar</HI> to the <HI>Hy&s;&s;op</HI> on the Wal;</L>
<L>In none of all profe&s;&s;eth, that he found</L>
<L>A firme Content, or Con&s;olation &s;ound:</L>
<L>Can We &s;uppo&s;e that any Shallowling</L>
<L>Can find <HI>much Good</HI> in oft-TOBACCONING?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>MY Third &amp; la&s;t <HI>Puffe,</HI> points at the <HI>Great Euil</HI></L>
<L>This noi&s;om <HI>Vapor</HI> works (through wily diuel).</L>
<L>If we may iudge; if Knowledge may be had</L>
<L>By their Effects, how things be <HI>good</HI> or <HI>bad;</HI></L>
<L>Doubt-les, th'Effects of This pernitious <HI>Weed</HI></L>
<L>Be many <HI>bad,</HI> &s;carce any <HI>good,</HI> indeed:</L>
<L>Nor dooth a Man &s;carce any <HI>Good</HI> contain,</L>
<L>But of This <HI>Euill</HI> iu&s;tly may complain;</L>
<PB N="96" REF="11">
<L>As thereby, made in euery Part the Wor&s;e,</L>
<L>In Body, Soule, in Credit, and in Pur&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>FOr, fir&s;t of all, it falls on his <HI>Good-name;</HI></L>
<L>And &s;o be-&s;mears, and &s;o <HI>be &s;moaks</HI> the &s;ame,</L>
<L>That neuer after &s;carce di&s;cerned is't.</L>
<L>Rare <HI>good Report</HI> of a TOBACCONIST:</L>
<L>Where, if to take it, were a vertuous thing,</L>
<L>'Twould to the Taker's Commendation bring;</L>
<L>And &s;omwhat grace them (thogh they els were bad)</L>
<L>Or hide, a little, the Defects they had:</L>
<L>But, from their Credit rather it abates,</L>
<L>And their Di&s;graces rather aggravates:</L>
<L>And how-much better that they were before,</L>
<L>It &s;tinks the wor&s;e, &amp; &s;tains their Name the more.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For, if a Swearer, or a Swaggerer,</L>
<L>A Drunkard, Dicer, or Adulterer,</L>
<L>Proue a TOBACCONIST, it is not much:</L>
<L>Tis &s;utable, 'tis well-be&s;eeming Such;</L>
<L>(No le&s;&s;e than flaring, gari&s;h, whori&s;h Tire,</L>
<L>Which now-adayes mo&s;t <HI>Mad-dames</HI> mo&s;t de&s;ire:</L>
<L>Owle-fac't <HI>Chaprones,</HI> Cheeks <HI>painted, Izland</HI> Tre&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Bum <HI>Bo&s;&s;e</HI>-about, with <HI>broad deep-naked</HI> Bre&s;ts;</L>
<L>Borrowed &amp; brought from loo&s;e <HI>Venetians,</HI></L>
<L>Becomes <HI>Pickt-hatch</HI> &amp; <HI>Shorditch Courtizans).</HI></L>
<PB N="97" REF="11">
<L>Not that TOBACCONING is not ami&s;&s;e:</L>
<L>But that the bright Noon of their better Vice,</L>
<L>Spred farr &amp; wide, doth darken and put downe</L>
<L>TOBACCO-<HI>taking,</HI> and it's Twilight drowne.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But, let it be of any truely &s;ayd,</L>
<L>Hee's <HI>great, religious, learned, wi&s;e,</HI> or <HI>&s;tayd;</HI></L>
<L>But, hee is lately turn'd TOBACCONIST:</L>
<L>O! what a Blurr! What an Abatement is't!</L>
<L>'Tis like a handfull fom <HI>Augaeus</HI> Stable,</L>
<L>Ca&s;t in the Face of <HI>Beawties</HI> faire&s;t Table.</L>
<L>Whence it appeares, This too-too to frequent,</L>
<L>It is not <HI>good;</HI> no, not <HI>indifferent.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>It be&s;t becomes a <HI>Stage,</HI> or el&s;e a <HI>Stewes,</HI></L>
<L>Or <HI>Dicing-hou&s;e,</HI> where All Di&s;orders v&s;e.</L>
<L>It ill be&s;eems a <HI>Church, Colledge,</HI> or <HI>Court,</HI></L>
<L>Or any Place of any Ciuill &s;ort:</L>
<L>It fits Bla&s;phemers, Ruffians, Athei&s;ts,</L>
<L>Damn'd <HI>Libertines,</HI> to be TOBACCONISTS:</L>
<L>Not <HI>Magi&s;trates,</HI> not <HI>Mini&s;ters,</HI> not <HI>Schollers</HI></L>
<L>(Who are, or &s;hould be Sinnes &s;euere Comptrollers)</L>
<L>Nor any wi&s;e and &s;ober per&s;onage,</L>
<L>Of Grauitie, of <HI>Hone&s;tie,</HI> of Age.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>It were the fitte&s;t Furniture (that may)</L>
<L>For Diuell, in a Picture, or a Play,</L>
<PB N="98" REF="12">
<L>To repre&s;ent him with a fierie Face,</L>
<L>His Mouth &amp; No&s;trils puffing <HI>Smoak</HI> apace,</L>
<L>With &s;taring Eyes, and in his griezly Gripe,</L>
<L>An ouer-grown, great, long TOBACCO-<HI>Pipe.</HI></L>
<L>Which &s;ure (me thinks) the mo&s;t TOBACCONIST</L>
<L>Mu&s;t needs approue, and euen applaud the Ie&s;t:</L>
<L>But much more <HI>Chri&s;tians</HI> hence ob&s;erue, how euill</L>
<L>It them becomes, that &s;o becomes the Deuill.</L>
<L>And therfore, think This <HI>Weed,</HI> a <HI>Drugge</HI> for <HI>Iewes</HI></L>
<L>More fit by far, [who did &s;o foule abu&s;e</L>
<L>(Ba&s;e rheumy Ra&s;cals) with their Spawlings ba&s;e</L>
<L>Our louing SAVIOVRS louely-reuerend Face,</L>
<L>Whom (wilful-blind, &s;tiffe-necked, &s;tupifi'd)</L>
<L>They &s;pet on, &s;corned, &s;courged, <HI>Crucifi'd</HI>]</L>
<L>Than for vs <HI>Chri&s;tians,</HI> who His Name adore,</L>
<L>Whom by His <HI>Death</HI> he doth to <HI>Life</HI> re&s;tore.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If, notwith&s;tanding All that hath bin &s;aid,</L>
<L>TOBACCONISTS will &s;till hold on their Trade,</L>
<L>And by their Practice &s;till hold vp their Name,</L>
<L>Though <HI>Iewes,</HI> though <HI>Diuels,</HI> better &s;uite the &s;ame;</L>
<L>I'le &s;ay no more but only This, of This:</L>
<L>Henceforth, let none who&s;e meaner Lot it is</L>
<L>To liue in <HI>Smoak; Lime-burners, Alchymi&s;ts,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Brick-makers, Brewers, Colliers, Kitcheni&s;ts;</HI></L>
<PB N="99" REF="12">
<L>Let <HI>Salamanders, Swallowes, Bacon-&s;titches,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Red-Sprats, red-Herings,</HI> and like <HI>Chimnie</HI>-wretches,</L>
<L>Think no Di&s;paragement, nor hold them ba&s;e:</L>
<L>TOBACCONISTS their Companie will grace,</L>
<L>And teach them make a Vertue of Nece&s;&s;itie,</L>
<L>Turning their <HI>Smoake</HI> into a <HI>grace</HI>-fool-<HI>A&s;sitie.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>NExt the <HI>Good-Name,</HI> now let <HI>The Bodie</HI> &s;howe</L>
<L>What Wrongs to it from out TOBACCO flow:</L>
<L>For, as That is Man's ba&s;er Part, indeed,</L>
<L>It is mo&s;t ba&s;ely handled by This Weed.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And Fir&s;t (as was &s;ignificantlie &s;aid</L>
<L>Before our <HI>Soueraigne,</HI> by an <HI>Oxford</HI> Head)</L>
<L>TOBACCO, <HI>Smoak</HI> into the <HI>Parlour</HI> putts,</L>
<L>And ba&s;e&s;t Office in the be&s;t Roome &s;huts,</L>
<L>While to the Head it doth exhale and hoi&s;t</L>
<L>The Bodies filthie and &s;uperfluous Moi&s;t;</L>
<L>Cau&s;ing a moi&s;t Brain, by vncea&s;t Supply</L>
<L>Of Rheumes &s;till drawne to th'Bodies <HI>Stillarie:</HI></L>
<L>Which in experience, and in rea&s;on, make</L>
<L>Men mo&s;t vnapt Deep thing to vndertake.</L>
<L>For, for the mo&s;t part, &s;hallow are the Wits,</L>
<L>Conceipts, and Coun&s;aills of TOBACCONITS.</L>
<L>Sith <HI>Wi&s;edome dwells in Drye:</HI> Her proper Seat</L>
<L>Is a drye Brain, embatteld well with Heat.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="100" REF="13">
<L>Al&s;o, it fries and dries away the Blood</L>
<L>(As did that <HI>Per&s;ian</HI> the <HI>Euphratean</HI> Flood,</L>
<L>To conquer <HI>Babylon</HI>) by who&s;e <HI>incra&s;sion,</HI></L>
<L>The <HI>Vitall Spirits,</HI> in an vnwonted fa&s;hion</L>
<L>Are bay'd, and barred of their Pa&s;&s;age due</L>
<L>Through all the veines, their vigour to renew:</L>
<L>So that the Humors (as all out of frame)</L>
<L>Tending to putrefie and to inflame,</L>
<L>Fire the whole Hou&s;e; from whence there followes euer</L>
<L>A dangerous, if not a deadly <HI>Feuer.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>La&s;tly, this boyling, broyling, of the Blood,</L>
<L>Breeds much adu&s;ted <HI>Melancholy</HI>-Mood</L>
<L>(<HI>Sathan's</HI> fit Saddle, from their &s;ullen Cell,</L>
<L>To ride, in po&s;t, his wretched Slaues to Hell,</L>
<L>With Two keen Spurres (too-quick in their Effect)</L>
<L>Th' one of Exce&s;&s;e, the other of Defect;</L>
<L>A violent <HI>Pa&s;sion,</HI> pu&s;hing <HI>Rea&s;on</HI> back,</L>
<L>Or fell <HI>De&s;paire,</HI> when <HI>Con&s;cience</HI> is awake.)</L>
<L>For, as of all <HI>In&s;en&s;ibles,</HI> hath none</L>
<L>More <HI>Melancholie</HI> and <HI>Adu&s;tion,</HI></L>
<L>Then <HI>Chimnies</HI> haue; What kind of <HI>Chimny</HI> is't,</L>
<L>Le&s;&s;e <HI>Sen&s;ible</HI> then a TOBACCONIST?</L>
<L>And in receiuing <HI>Smoake,</HI> fith th' are &s;o equall;</L>
<L>Can their <HI>adu&s;tion</HI> then be much vnequall?</L>
<PB N="101" REF="13">
<L>Thus then the Habit of TOBACCONING,</L>
<L>Makes one more <HI>Chimny</HI>-like then any thing.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Some al&s;o think it cau&s;eth ex&s;iccation</L>
<L>(As of the Blood) of Seed of generation;</L>
<L>By th' acrimonie &s;tirring more to couet,</L>
<L>Then fruitfully producing I&s;&s;ue of it:</L>
<L>Whence, we may learne to maruell &s;o much le&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>That (for the mo&s;t) our <HI>Gentles,</HI> that profe&s;&s;e</L>
<L>TOBACCONISME, loue <HI>Lemman</HI>-Sauce &s;o well;</L>
<L>Or that &s;uch Legions of the Ba&s;e <HI>pel-mel,</HI></L>
<L>Vnder the Standard of TOBACCO, v&s;e</L>
<L>To <HI>Turn-bull</HI> fir&s;t, then to <HI>Our Bartholmewes.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And where there haue been many great Inque&s;ts</L>
<L>To find the Cau&s;e Why Bodies &s;till grow le&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>And daily neerer to the <HI>Pigmies</HI> Size</L>
<L>This, among many Probabilities</L>
<L>May pa&s;&s;e for one: that their Progenitours</L>
<L>Did gladly foment their Interiours</L>
<L>With hole&s;ome Food, vnmired, moderate,</L>
<L>And timely Liquors duely temperate:</L>
<L>But, now-adaies, Their I&s;&s;ue inly choake</L>
<L>And dry them vp (like Herrings) with This <HI>Smoakes</HI></L>
<L>For, Herrings, in the Sea, are large and full,</L>
<L>But &s;hrink in bloating and together pull:</L>
<PB N="102" REF="14">
<L>Whence, in effect, Smoak vnto Smoak referring,</L>
<L>TOBACCONISTS are not vnlike Red Herring.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Vndoubtedly, beyond all Moderation</L>
<L>It dries the Bodie, robs of irrigation</L>
<L>The thir&s;tie parts; &s;o that the bowels cry</L>
<L>For Moi&s;t and Cold, to temper Hot and Dry:</L>
<L>Whence, th'Elementall Qualities of Theirs,</L>
<L>In Faction, fall together by the Eares.</L>
<L>For, in the Hearb exce&s;&s;e of Dry and Hot,</L>
<L>Drawes-in exce&s;&s;e of Cold-Moi&s;t from the Pot;</L>
<L>For which they troup to th' Ale-hou&s;e &s;hortly after,</L>
<L>As rats-ban'd Rats doe hie them to the Water.</L>
<L>And yet, their liquid Cooler cures them not,</L>
<L>No more then Water doth the baned Rat:</L>
<L>For th' Heat and Drought of th' <HI>Herb American</HI></L>
<L>Being inten&s;iue (fitter call'd Man-Bane)</L>
<L>The one dries-vp the <HI>Humour Radicall,</HI></L>
<L>The other drownes the <HI>Calor Naturall.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But the mo&s;t certaine and apparant Ill</L>
<L>Is an Ill Habit which doth hant them &s;till;</L>
<L>Transforming <HI>Nature</HI> from her natiue Mould:</L>
<L>For, <HI>Cu&s;tome</HI> we another <HI>Nature</HI> hold.</L>
<L>And This vile <HI>Cu&s;tome</HI> is &s;o violent,</L>
<L>And holds his <HI>Cu&s;tomers</HI> at &s;uch a Bent,</L>
<PB N="103" REF="14">
<L>That thogh therby more Hurt then Good they doubt,</L>
<L>To die for it, they cannot liue without.</L>
<L>Which doubtle&s;s, is a mi&s;erable State:</L>
<L>For, Men are &s;urely the more Fortunate,</L>
<L>Of fewer Creatures that they &s;tand in need:</L>
<L>More, but more Bondage, and le&s;s freedome breed.</L>
<L>A Hou&s;e that mu&s;t haue many Props and Stayes</L>
<L>Is neerer Fall, and fa&s;ter it decayes:</L>
<L>Variety and Surfeit feed the <HI>Spittle,</HI></L>
<L>And fill the Graue. <HI>Nature's content with little.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Why then &s;hould Man, <HI>liuing</HI> and <HI>rationall,</HI></L>
<L>Be&s;laue him&s;elfe to a dead <HI>Vegetall?</HI></L>
<L>Why, demi-heauenly, and mo&s;t free by Birth,</L>
<L>Should he be bound vnto this Childe of Earth?</L>
<L>Why, Lord of Creatures, &s;hould He &s;erue: at lea&s;t,</L>
<L>Why &s;uch a Creature, ba&s;er then a bea&s;t?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>OF: had I &s;een <HI>Fooles</HI> of all &s;orts frequent it,</L>
<L><HI>Fooles</HI> of all Size, <HI>Fooles</HI> of all Sexes hant it,</L>
<L><HI>Fooles</HI> of all Colours, <HI>Fooles</HI> of all Complexions,</L>
<L><HI>Fooles</HI> of all Fa&s;hions, <HI>Fooles</HI> of all Affections,</L>
<L><HI>Fooles</HI> naturall, <HI>Fooles</HI> artificiall,</L>
<L><HI>Fooles</HI> rich and poore, young <HI>Fooles,</HI> old <HI>Fooles,</HI> &amp; all;</L>
<L>Whom, <HI>Foole</HI> I pitied, for their wilfull Folly;</L>
<L>Suppo&s;ing, None di&s;creetly Wi&s;e (or Holy)</L>
<PB N="104" REF="15">
<L>Could be entangled with &s;o fond a thing,</L>
<L>As is the habit of TOBACCONING.</L>
<L>For, what Di&s;cretion, or what Wi&s;dome can,</L>
<L>Think <HI>Phy&s;icke</HI> Food, or <HI>Med'cine</HI> Meat, for Man?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>I rather thought <HI>Vly&s;&s;es</HI> rather would</L>
<L>Haue &s;topt his Eares, Eyes, Hands &amp; Mouth with-hold</L>
<L>From &s;uch a <HI>Cyrcean</HI> Drug, who&s;e working &s;trange,</L>
<L>Would &s;oon his be&s;t into a Bea&s;t exchange.</L>
<L>But when I &s;aw &s;ome Wi&s;e-ones &s;nared in</L>
<L>This <HI>Spani&s;h Cobweb</HI> (Sathans &s;peciall Gin)</L>
<L>And that &s;o fa&s;t, they cannot when they would</L>
<L>Get out againe; or will not if they could:</L>
<L><HI>Wi&s;edome,</HI> me thought, mu&s;t varie much; or el&s;e</L>
<L>This <HI>Ware</HI> is <HI>&s;piced</HI> with &s;ome Foraine Spels,</L>
<L>So to bewitch the Wi&s;e (need-le&s;s, and nilling)</L>
<L>To take and loue; and not to leaue it, willing.</L>
<L>For, tho&s;e that &s;ay and &s;weare they euen abhorre it,</L>
<L>Cannot abandon, but Thus bandie for it:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Tis good (&s;ay They) Tis &s;peciall good for Rheumes;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Exhales gro&s;&s;e Humors, their Exce&s;&s;e con&s;umes;</HI></L>
<L><HI>And voids with-all, all Inconuenience</HI></L>
<L><HI>There-on depending, or de&s;cending Thence.</HI></L>
<L>Which &s;hould I grant, it mu&s;t be yet with Clau&s;es</L>
<L>Of needfull Caution, &s;uitable to Cau&s;es;</L>
<PB N="105" REF="15">
<L>When time requireth Preparation fit</L>
<L>To rarifie congealed Rags of it;</L>
<L>Which by the Heat and Dryne&s;&s;e probably,</L>
<L>This Plant performes, in mediocritie:</L>
<L>Or el&s;e, where the aboundant Quantity,</L>
<L>Dangerous Effect, malignant Quality,</L>
<L>Of ouer-moi&s;tures, aske <HI>Euacuation,</HI></L>
<L>To free the Parts from totall Inundation.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>How-be-it, many &s;afer Meanes there are.</L>
<L>Better and fitter in them&s;elues by farre;</L>
<L>More certaine, more direct; with le&s;&s;e adoo,</L>
<L>Le&s;&s;e Co&s;t, le&s;&s;e Damage, and le&s;&s;e Danger too</L>
<L>Than <HI>Don</HI> TOBACCO's damnable Infection.</L>
<L>Slutting the Body, &s;lauing the Affection.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Twere therefore better &s;omewhat el&s;e to &s;eek</L>
<L>Then re&s;t in this, &s;o worthie of Di&s;-like;</L>
<L>Sith, curing Thus one &s;mall Infirmity,</L>
<L>It doth create a greater Malady,</L>
<L>When there-by freed (perhaps) from <HI>Rheumes</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e fall</L>
<L>In Bondage of this <HI>Cu&s;tome</HI> capitall.</L>
<L>For, they that <HI>Phy&s;icke</HI> to a <HI>Cu&s;tome</HI> bring,</L>
<L>Bring their <HI>Di&s;ea&s;e</HI> too, to accu&s;toming.</L>
<L>Perpetuall <HI>Phy&s;icke</HI> mu&s;t of force imply</L>
<L>Perpetuall <HI>Sickne&s;&s;e:</HI> or deep Foolerie</L>
<PB N="106" REF="16">
<L>Compos'd of <HI>Anticke</HI> and of <HI>Phrantick</HI> too:</L>
<L>For where's no <HI>Sickne&s;s,</HI> what &s;hould <HI>Med'eine</HI> doo?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>THus for the <HI>Bodie:</HI> Now the <HI>Soule</HI> diuine</L>
<L>With This wilde <HI>Goo&s;e-Gra&s;&s;e</HI> of the <HI>Peru&s;ine</HI></L>
<L>Hath Foure great Quarels, in foure-fold re&s;pect</L>
<L>Of her Foure Faculties; the <HI>Intellect,</HI></L>
<L>The <HI>Memory,</HI> the <HI>Will,</HI> the <HI>Con&s;cience;</HI></L>
<L>All which are wronged, if not wounded, Thence.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Fir&s;t, in the <HI>Intellect,</HI> it d'outs the Light,</L>
<L>Darkens the Hou&s;e, dims th' vnder&s;tandings Sight;</L>
<L>Through neuer-cea&s;t &s;ucce&s;&s;ion of <HI>Humiditie,</HI></L>
<L>The Dam of dulne&s;&s;e, Mother of <HI>Stupiditie;</HI></L>
<L>Making Mans generous Brain (be&s;t, dry and hot)</L>
<L>Lie drown'd, and driueling like a Changeling Sot.</L>
<L>Why then &s;hould Man, to put out <HI>Rea&s;on's</HI> Eye,</L>
<L>Suffer his Soule in <HI>Smoakie</HI> Lodge to lye?</L>
<L>For, though &s;ome others, and my Selfe by proofe</L>
<L>(When &s;cornefully I tooke it but in <HI>Snuffe</HI>)</L>
<L>Haue th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">eby &s;ometimes found &s;ome benefit;</L>
<L>Superfluous Humors from the Brain to quit,</L>
<L>To cleer the Voyce, and cheer the <HI>Phanta&s;ie,</HI></L>
<L>Which, for the pre&s;ent, it did &s;eem &s;upply:</L>
<L>Yet doth the <HI>Custome</HI> (as we likewi&s;e finde)</L>
<L>Di&s;-nerue the Bodie, and di&s;-apt the Minde.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="107" REF="16">
<L>Next; It decayes and mars the <HI>Memorie,</HI></L>
<L>And brings it to &s;trange Imbecillitie,</L>
<L>By &s;till attraction of continuall <HI>Moist,</HI></L>
<L>Which from the lower parts it wonts to hoi&s;t:</L>
<L>For, though be&s;t <HI>Memorie</HI> dwel in a Brain</L>
<L><HI>Moi&s;t-moderate;</HI> Yet ouer-<HI>moi&s;t,</HI> againe</L>
<L>Makes it &s;o laxe, &s;o diffluent and thin,</L>
<L>That nothing can be firmely fixt there-in;</L>
<L>But in&s;tantly it &s;lides and &s;lips-away,</L>
<L>As weary heeles on wet and &s;lippery Clay.</L>
<L>For Proofe whereof: None more forgetfull is</L>
<L>Of GOD and <HI>Good,</HI> than are <HI>Tobacconi&s;ts.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Touching th' <HI>Affections,</HI> they are tir'd no le&s;&s;e</L>
<L>By This fell Tyrants in&s;olent Exce&s;&s;e:</L>
<L>For, the <HI>Adu&s;tion</HI> of th'inherent <HI>Heat,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Drought, Acrimonie</HI> (Tartar-like) doth fret;</L>
<L>Makes men more &s;oudain and more heed-le&s;s heady,</L>
<L>More &s;ullen-&s;owr, more &s;tubbornely-vn&s;teady,</L>
<L>More apt to wrath, to wrangle, and to braule;</L>
<L>To giue and take a Great Offence, for Small;</L>
<L>Cau&s;e-le&s;s Reioycing, and as cau&s;e-le&s;s Sorry,</L>
<L>Exceeding-Mournefull, and exce&s;&s;iue-Merry:</L>
<L>Whence growes, in fine, exce&s;siue Griefe &amp; Fear;</L>
<L>For Dumpier none than the <HI>Tobacconer:</HI></L>
<PB N="108" REF="17">
<L>None &s;adder than the gladde&s;t of their Ho&s;t;</L>
<L>None hating more than hee that loued mo&s;t;</L>
<L>None fearing more, none danted more than &s;uch</L>
<L>As, in a <HI>Pa&s;sion,</HI> rather dar'd too-much.</L>
<L>For, <HI>Relatiues in&s;eparable dwell:</HI></L>
<L>And <HI>Contraries their Contraries expell.</HI></L>
<L>And (with th'<HI>old Poet) Tis the Cox-combs Cour&s;e</HI></L>
<L><HI>Flying a Fault to fall into a Wor&s;e.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But if they &s;ay, that &s;ometimes, taking it,</L>
<L>The Minde is freed from &s;ome in&s;tant Fit</L>
<L>Of Anger, Griefe, or Feare; Experience tells</L>
<L>It is but like &s;ome of our Tooth-ake Spells,</L>
<L>Which for the pre&s;ent &s;eem to ea&s;e the Pain,</L>
<L>But after, double it with more Rage again,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e a little, for the time, it drawes,</L>
<L>But leaues behinde the very Root and Cau&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>La&s;tly, the <HI>Con&s;cience</HI> (as it is the be&s;t)</L>
<L>This <HI>Indian</HI> Weed doth mo&s;t of all mole&s;t;</L>
<L>Loading it daily with &s;uch Weight of Sin,</L>
<L>Where-of the lea&s;t &s;hall at the la&s;t come-in</L>
<L>To &s;trict Account: the Lo&s;&s;e of precious houres,</L>
<L>Neglect of GOD, of <HI>Good,</HI> of Vs, of Ours:</L>
<L>Our ill Example, prodigall Exce&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Vain Words, vain Oathes, Dice, Daring, Drunkennes,</L>
<PB N="109" REF="17">
<L>Sloath, ie&s;ting, &s;coffing, turning Night to Day,</L>
<L>And Day to Night; Di&s;order, Di&s;aray;</L>
<L>Places of Scorne and publicke Scandall hanting;</L>
<L>Per&s;ons of ba&s;e and bea&s;tly Life frequenting,</L>
<L>Theeues, Vnthrifts, Ru&s;tians, Robbers, Roarers, Drabbers,</L>
<L>Bibbers, Bla&s;phemers, Shiftters Sharkers Stabbers:</L>
<L>This is the <HI>Rendez-vous,</HI> The&s;e are the Li&s;ts,</L>
<L>Where do encounter Mo&s;t TOBACCONISTS:</L>
<L>Wherein they walk, like a blind Mill-hor&s;e, round</L>
<L>In the &s;ame Circle, on the &s;elfe &s;ame ground;</L>
<L>Forgetting how, Dayes, Months, and Yeeres do pa&s;&s;e;</L>
<L>No more regarding, than an Oxe or A&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>How Age growes on, How <HI>Death</HI> attendeth them,</L>
<L>GOD knowes how neer: (<HI>Whom</HI> on each &s;ide behem</L>
<L>A late <HI>Repentance,</HI> or a flat <HI>De&s;paire</HI>)</L>
<L>And after <HI>That,</HI> a noy&s;ome &s;tinking Aire</L>
<L>Of their infamous rotten <HI>Memory</HI></L>
<L>With Men on Earth; in Heauen with GOD on hie</L>
<L>A Fearefull <HI>Doom:</HI> and finally in Hell,</L>
<L>Infinitie of Fierie <HI>Torments</HI> fell.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>The La&s;t and lea&s;t of all TOBACCO harms</L>
<L>Is to the <HI>Pur&s;e:</HI> which yet it &s;o becharmes,</L>
<L>That Iuggler-like it ie&s;ts-out all the Pelfe,</L>
<L>And makes a Man a <HI>Pick-pur&s;e</HI> to him&s;elfe.</L>
<PB N="110" REF="18">
<L>For, as by This th' <HI>Iberian Argonauts</HI></L>
<L>May be &s;uppos'd (euen among &s;erious Thoughts)</L>
<L>T'haue kill' more Men than by their Martyrdome</L>
<L>Or <HI>Ma&s;&s;acre</HI> (which yet to Millions come)</L>
<L>So, by the Same they haue vndone more Men,</L>
<L>Than <HI>V&s;urie</HI> (which takes from Hundred, Ten)</L>
<L>And no-where more than in <HI>This witched I&s;le:</HI></L>
<L>Woe to their Fraudes, Woe to vs Fooles, the-while.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>HOw-many <HI>Gentles,</HI> not of Meane&s;t Sort</L>
<L>(Who&s;e Fathers liu'd in honourable Port,</L>
<L>For Table, Stable, and Attendance fit;</L>
<L>Louing their Countrie, and belou'd of it)</L>
<L>Leauing their Neighbours, fly from their Approach,</L>
<L>And, for the mo&s;t keep Hou&s;e in a <HI>Caroach</HI></L>
<L>(Hells new found Cradles! where are rockt a&s;leep</L>
<L>Mi&s;chiefes that make our Common-weale to weep.)</L>
<L>Or in &s;ome <HI>Play-hou&s;e,</HI> or &s;ome <HI>Ordinarie,</HI></L>
<L>Or in &s;ome Peece of &s;ome <HI>Vn-Sanctuarie;</HI></L>
<L>Where, throgh their <HI>Pipe-puft No&s;e</HI> more <HI>Smoak</HI> they waue,</L>
<L>Than all the <HI>Chimneis</HI> their great How&s;es haue;</L>
<L>Con&s;uming more in their <HI>Ob&s;cure-Ob&s;coenitie,</HI></L>
<L>On <HI>Smoake</HI> and <HI>Smock,</HI> with their <HI>appendent Vanity,</HI></L>
<L>Than their braue Elders did, when they maintaind</L>
<L>Honour at home, and forraine Glory gaind.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="111" REF="18">
<L>How doe they rack &amp; wrack, &amp; grate, &amp; grinde,</L>
<L>Shuffle and cut, wrangle, and turne, and winde,</L>
<L>Borrow and begge (vnder a Courtly Cloake)</L>
<L>And all too-little for This liquori&s;h <HI>Smoake!</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Alas the while! that men Thus needs will be</L>
<L>Begger'd, vndone (of no <HI>Nece&s;sitie</HI>)</L>
<L>In Bodie, Mind, and Means; vnapt, vnable</L>
<L>For any <HI>Good,</HI> through This &s;o need-le&s;s Bable.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>For, What a Folly, through the No&s;e to puffe</L>
<L>Th'whole Bodie's Portion, in This idle &s;tuffe!</L>
<L>Or, what need any with TOBACCO, more</L>
<L>Now meddle, than his Ance&s;tors before?</L>
<L>Who knew it not, but had, without it, Health,</L>
<L>Liu'd long and lu&s;ty, in abundant Wealth.</L>
<L>Or, what is any, when he all hath &s;pent,</L>
<L>The better for This deer Experiment?</L>
<L>Which now-adaies a number daily finde</L>
<L>Like <HI>Alchymie</HI> (though in another Kinde)</L>
<L>To circulate, and calcinate (at length)</L>
<L>In&s;en&s;ibly (TOBACCO hath &s;uch Srength)</L>
<L>Manours, Demains, Goods, Cattell, Elme, &amp; Oake,</L>
<L>Gold, Siluer, All; to <HI>A&s;hes</HI> and to <HI>Smoake,</HI></L>
<L>While all too-bu&s;ie blowing at the Coale,</L>
<L>Deiect their Body, and neglect their Soule.</L>
<PB N="112" REF="19">
<L>For, O! What place is left to <HI>Chri&s;tianitie,</HI></L>
<L>Mong&s;t &s;uch a Crew (nay; almo&s;t to <HI>Humanitie</HI>)</L>
<L>Where Oathes, Puf-&s;nuffing, Spau&s;ing-Excrement,</L>
<L>Are <HI>reall Parts of</HI> GENTLES Complement?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And, for our <HI>Vulgar,</HI> by who&s;e bold Abu&s;e,</L>
<L>TOBACCONING hath got &s;o generall V&s;e;</L>
<L>How mightily haue They &s;ince multipli'd</L>
<L>Tauerns, Tap-hou&s;es! where, on euery &s;ide,</L>
<L>Mo&s;t &s;infully hath Mault been &s;unken heer,</L>
<L>In nappie <HI>Ale,</HI> and <HI>double-double Beer?</HI></L>
<L>Inuincible, in a Threefold Exce&s;&s;e;</L>
<L>Strong <HI>Drink,</HI> &s;trong <HI>Drinking,</HI> &amp; &s;trange <HI>Drunkenne&s;s.</HI></L>
<L>Which on the Land hath brought, &s;o vi&s;ibly,</L>
<L>So great a Mi&s;chiefe, &s;o pa&s;t Remedie,</L>
<L>That Thou&s;ands daiely into Beggery &s;inke</L>
<L>Through <HI>Idlene&s;&s;e;</HI> in wilfull <HI>Debt</HI> for <HI>Drinke.</HI></L>
<L>Nor can the Lawe's &s;euere&s;t Curb keep-in</L>
<L>This colti&s;h, common, priuiledged Sin.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Then (&s;hallow Reptile, &s;uperficiall Gnat)</L>
<L>Why doe I humme? why doe I hi&s;&s;e there-at?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>BVt, awfull <HI>Iu&s;tice</HI> will with keener Edge</L>
<L>Clip &s;hort (I hope) this &s;awcie Priuiledge;</L>
<L>And at one Blowe cut-off this <HI>Ouer-Drinking,</HI></L>
<L>And euer <HI>Drop&s;ie</HI> of TOBACCO-<HI>&s;tinking:</HI></L>
<PB N="113" REF="19">
<L>When <HI>Our</HI> ALCIDES (though at <HI>Peace</HI> with Men,</L>
<L><HI>At Warre with Vices</HI>) as His <HI>armed Pen</HI></L>
<L>[Among the LABOVRS of his <HI>Royall</HI> hand,</L>
<L>Where <HI>Piety</HI> and <HI>Prudence</HI> (ioyntly) &s;tand</L>
<L>Eternall PILLERS to His glorious <HI>Name;</HI></L>
<L>Vnto all Times to te&s;tifie the &s;ame,</L>
<L><HI>BRITANN'S</HI> right <HI>Beau-Clerk,</HI> both for <HI>Word and Writ:</HI></L>
<L><HI>For Knowledge, Iudgement, Method, Memory:</HI></L>
<L><HI>The Miracle, The</HI> ORACLE <HI>of Wit:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Diuine and Morall</HI> ENCYCLOPAEDIE]</L>
<L>Hath, as with Arrowes, from His &s;acred Sides,</L>
<L>All-ready chac't The&s;e <HI>&s;tinking Symphalides;</HI></L>
<L>Shall, with the <HI>Trident</HI> of &s;ome &s;harpe <HI>Edict,</HI></L>
<L>Seuere enacted, executed &s;trict,</L>
<L>Clen&s;e all the Staules of This <HI>Augaean</HI> Dung,</L>
<L>Which hath &s;o long corrupted Old and Young:</L>
<L>Or, at the lea&s;t, impo&s;e &s;o deep a <HI>Taxe</HI></L>
<L>On All the&s;e <HI>Ball, Leafe, Cane,</HI> &amp; <HI>Pudding Packs;</HI></L>
<L>On Seller, or on Buyer, or on Both,</L>
<L>That from Hencefoorth the <HI>Commons</HI> &s;halbe loth</L>
<L>(Vnwilling-Wi&s;e) with that <HI>graue Greeke,</HI> to <HI>buy</HI></L>
<L><HI>Smoak</HI> and <HI>Repentance at a Price &s;o hie.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>If, notwith&s;tanding, Yet &s;ome Wealthy will</L>
<L>Needs poy&s;on, and vndoo them with it, &s;till;</L>
<PB N="114" REF="20">
<L>It &s;hall be onely &s;ome of Tho&s;e prophane</L>
<L>Loo&s;e <HI>Prodigals</HI> (their Countries Blot and Bane)</L>
<L>Be&s;t to be &s;par'd, lea&s;t to be mi&s;t; who&s;e Lands</L>
<L>(If anie left) will come to Wi&s;er hands</L>
<L>Than &s;uch weak <HI>Ninnies,</HI> needing <HI>Ward&s;hip</HI> yet;</L>
<L>Not for their want of <HI>Age,</HI> but want of <HI>Wit.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L><HI>Avidius Ca&s;sius</HI> (as <HI>Lampridius</HI> &s;howes)</L>
<L>Did fir&s;t inuent, and fir&s;t of all impo&s;e</L>
<L>That vncouth Manner of tormenting Folk,</L>
<L>On a high Beame to &s;moother them with <HI>Smoak:</HI></L>
<L>Where, had TOBACCO bin then known, he need</L>
<L>But haue enioyn'd them to haue tane that Weed.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But, with more Rea&s;on and more Equitie,</L>
<L><HI>Seuerus Cae&s;ar,</HI> when he did di&s;cry</L>
<L>The double-dealing of <HI>Vetronius</HI></L>
<L>[A Cou&s;ening Courtier (Such are none with Vs)</L>
<L>A Iack-of both-&s;ides, with both hands to play</L>
<L>(As now-adayes &s;ome Lawyers doo, they &s;ay)</L>
<L>Faining great Fauour with his Soueraign,</L>
<L>To take great Bribes of Many, to obtain</L>
<L>Great Suits; for whom his Prince he neuer mou'd]</L>
<L>Aloud complain'd of, and apparant prou'd;</L>
<L>Caus'd his fal&s;e <HI>Minion</HI> with this <HI>Doom</HI> to choak,</L>
<L><HI>Let the Smoak-&s;eller &s;uffocate with Smoak:</HI></L>
<PB N="115" REF="20">
<L>Which, our <HI>Smoak</HI> Merchants would no le&s;&s;e befit;</L>
<L>TOBACCO-<HI>Mongers,</HI> Bringers-in of it:</L>
<L>Which yeerly co&s;ts (they &s;ay, by <HI>Audit</HI> found)</L>
<L>Of better Wares an hundred Thou&s;and pound.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And, if the <HI>Sentence</HI> of this <HI>Heathen Prince,</HI></L>
<L>On That <HI>Impo&s;tor,</HI> for his <HI>Impudence,</HI></L>
<L>Were iu&s;t: How iu&s;ter will the Heau'nly GOD,</L>
<L>Th' <HI>Eternal,</HI> puni&s;h with infernall Rod,</L>
<L>In Hell's darke (Fornace, with black <HI>Fumes,</HI> to choak)</L>
<L>Tho&s;e, that on Earth will &s;till <HI>offend in Smoak?</HI></L>
<L>Offend their Friends, with a Mo&s;t <HI>vn Re&s;pect:</HI></L>
<L>Offend their Wiues and Children with Neglect:</L>
<L>Offend the Eyes, with foule and loath&s;om Spawlings:</L>
<L>Offend the No&s;e, with filthy Fumes exhalings:</L>
<L>Offend the Eares, with lowd lewd <HI>Execrations:</HI></L>
<L>Offend the Mouth, with ougly Excreations:</L>
<L>Offend the <HI>Sen&s;e,</HI> with &s;tupefying <HI>Sen&s;e:</HI></L>
<L>Offend the Weake, to follow then <HI>Offen&s;e:</HI></L>
<L>Offend the Body, and offend the Minde:</L>
<L>Offend the <HI>Con&s;cience</HI> in a fearefull kinde:</L>
<L>Offend their <HI>Bapti&s;me,</HI> and their <HI>Second Birth:</HI></L>
<L>Offend the <HI>Maie&s;tie</HI> of Heau'n and Earth.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Woe to the World becau&s;e of Such <HI>Offen&s;es:</HI></L>
<L>So voluntaire, &s;o voyd of all preten&s;es</L>
<PB N="116" REF="21">
<L>Of all <HI>Excu&s;e</HI> (&s;aue <HI>Fa&s;hion, Cu&s;tome, Will</HI>)</L>
<L>In &s;o apparant, proued, granted, <HI>Ill.</HI></L>
<L>Woe, woe to them by Whom <HI>Offences</HI> come,</L>
<L>So &s;candalous to All our CHRISTENDOME.</L>
</LG>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
<PB REF="21">
</DIV1>
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</TEXT>
<TEXT LANG="eng">
<FRONT>
<DIV1 TYPE="title page">
<PB REF="22">
<PB REF="22">
<P>SIMILE non e&s;t IDEM: <HI>Seeming is not the-Same. OR</HI> All's not GOLD that gli&s;ters. A <HI>CHARACTER</HI> Of This corrupted Time, which makes <HI>RELIGION</HI> but <HI>A Couer-Crime.</HI></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="dedicatory verse or poem">
<PB REF="23">
<PB REF="23">
<HEAD><HI>TO</HI> The worthily-Honored, S^r. HENRIE BAKER, <HI>Knight-Baronet.</HI></HEAD>
<L>TIs better <HI>late,</HI> than <HI>neuer</HI> to repay:</L>
<L>Better a <HI>little,</HI> than <HI>no Part</HI> at all:</L>
<L>Take therfore, in good-part, <HI>This Part</HI> (though &s;mal)</L>
<L>Of your <HI>great Debt:</HI> &amp; pardon my Delay,</L>
<L>Till (more mine Owne) with more <HI>Re&s;pect,</HI> I may</L>
<L>IN better <HI>Mea&s;ure</HI> (as I hope, I &s;hall)</L>
<L>An&s;were your <HI>Merit;</HI> though not an&s;were all</L>
<L>Your <HI>Bounties</HI> Bonds, renewed Day by Day.</L>
<L><HI>Yov mind your MAKER, in your Dayes of Youth:</HI></L>
<L>You <HI>&s;hew vs, by your Works, your Faith's</HI> &s;incerity:</L>
<L>You are &s;o <HI>friendly</HI> to the <HI>Friends</HI> of <HI>Truth,</HI></L>
<L>Your <HI>vertuous</HI> Life &s;o proues your Loue to <HI>Veritie,</HI></L>
<L>That <HI>None,</HI> I thought, could, with more patient Eye,</L>
<L>Abide to looke on This ANATOMIE.</L>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your Vertues Humble Honourer, IOSVAH SYLVESTER.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
</FRONT>
<BODY>
<DIV1 TYPE="poem">
<PB REF="24">
<PB N="119" REF="24">
<HEAD>SIMILE non e&s;t IDEM: <HI>Seeming</HI> is not <HI>The-Same.</HI> or All is not GOLD, that gli&s;ters.</HEAD>
<LG>
<HEAD>1</HEAD>
<L><HI>HOw</HI> TIMES <HI>are chang'd! and</HI> WEE <HI>with</HI> Times,</L>
<L>In new, nefarious, various Crimes!</L>
<L>Exceeding all that haue preceeded,</L>
<L>In <HI>Pride, in Fraud, in Filth, in Force,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Rape, Trea&s;on, Poy&s;on,</HI> pa&s;t Remor&s;e;</L>
<L>Such, as (in Time) will &s;carce be creeded.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>2</HEAD>
<L>O Mindes! O Manners, mo&s;t ab&s;urd!</L>
<L>When (to the Scandall of <HI>The Word</HI>)</L>
<L>The more our Light, the wor&s;e our Works:</L>
<L>When <HI>&s;eeming</HI> SAINCTS <HI>be</HI> nothing le&s;&s;e;</L>
<L>And more Profane, Who mo&s;t Profe&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Than <HI>Infidels,</HI> or <HI>Iewes,</HI> or <HI>Turks.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="120" REF="25">
<HEAD>3</HEAD>
<L>And when, between our <HI>roaring</HI> GIANTS,</L>
<L>That openly, bid Heau'n Defiance,</L>
<L>Heaping-vp Hill's of Wickednes;</L>
<L>And th'undermining clo&s;e de&s;pights</L>
<L>Of double-hearted <HI>Hypocrites,</HI></L>
<L>Masking in Hollow-<HI>Holine&s;&s;e;</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>4</HEAD>
<L>From Earth are FAITH &amp; TRVTH exil'd;</L>
<L>Fal&s;e <HI>Error</HI> hath all Hearts beguil'd:</L>
<L>All-ouer All ABVSES raigne.</L>
<L><HI>Vertue is Vice; Vice, Vertue grown,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Iustice</HI> is iu&s;tied from her Owne:</L>
<L><HI>Honor</HI> and <HI>Right</HI> are in di&s;daigne.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>5</HEAD>
<L>'Tis, To be <HI>Fooli&s;h,</HI> To be <HI>Wi&s;e:</HI></L>
<L>With Rea&s;on, is Again&s;t the Gui&s;e:</L>
<L>Read they that can My Riddle right.</L>
<L><HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> Sonne of Man; and GOD <HI>of Hoa&s;ts,</HI></L>
<L>How-many of Thy <HI>Bapti&s;me</HI> boa&s;ts,</L>
<L>Who&s;e life doth to the death defi't</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="121" REF="25">
<HEAD>6</HEAD>
<L>For, Thy Di&s;ciples Thee beleeue;</L>
<L>And in Thee onely double-line;</L>
<L>According to Thy GOSPEL'S <HI>veritie:</HI></L>
<L>But, dare Wee &s;ay, that Wee are &s;uch;</L>
<L>When now-adayes in Poore or Rich,</L>
<L>Is found nor <HI>Faith,</HI> nor <HI>Hope,</HI> nor <HI>Charity?</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>7</HEAD>
<L>GOD hath engrauen in euery Soule</L>
<L>A natiue Law, on <HI>Natures</HI> Roule;</L>
<L>Whereby (alas) We &s;tand convict:</L>
<L>And <HI>Precedents</HI> of pious <HI>Zeal,</HI></L>
<L>Who by their Bloods, their <HI>Hopes</HI> did &s;eale,</L>
<L>To double Death condemne vs, &s;trict.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>8</HEAD>
<L>Wee ought infringe That <HI>Statute</HI> neuer,</L>
<L>From euerla&s;ting firm'd for-euer:</L>
<L><HI>Doo as Thou would'&s;t be done vnto:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Doo not, what Thou woulde&s;t not accept.</HI></L>
<L>O pure, plaine, gentle, iu&s;t <HI>Precept!</HI></L>
<L>Yet This (alas) Who lookes to doo?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="122" REF="26">
<HEAD>9</HEAD>
<L>When all Degrees, &s;o tender bin</L>
<L>Towards them Selues, without, with-in,</L>
<L>They, neither Wrong, nor Right, can &s;uffer:</L>
<L>But towards Others (made as They,</L>
<L>By the &s;ame hand, of the &s;ame Clay)</L>
<L>Again&s;t all Rights, all Wrongs doo offer.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>10</HEAD>
<L>LORD, Thou ha&s;t &s;aid, &amp; &s;how'n it cleer</L>
<L>(When in thy Fle&s;h, Thou &s;oiourn'd&s;t heer)</L>
<L><HI>Thy Kingdom is not of This World:</HI></L>
<L>So &s;hall I euermore &s;u&s;pect,</L>
<L>While heer I &s;ee, with &s;uch neglect,</L>
<L><HI>Thy Holy Statutes</HI> after-hurl'd.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>11</HEAD>
<L>All tho&s;e <HI>(O Lord)</HI> that cry, <HI>Lord, Lord;</HI></L>
<L>With Shadow of thy <HI>Sacred Word,</HI></L>
<L>To cloak their Wickedne&s;&s;e, with-in;</L>
<L>Are none of <HI>Thine:</HI> but, of Thy <HI>Name</HI></L>
<L>Profanely make a Mocking-Game,</L>
<L>To countenance their cur&s;ed Sin.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="123" REF="26">
<HEAD>12</HEAD>
<L>Like that IGNATIAN-<HI>Latian Colledge,</HI></L>
<L>Where, vnder Shew of <HI>Sacred Knowledge,</HI></L>
<L>They &s;tudie <HI>State</HI> and <HI>Stratagems;</HI></L>
<L>Making a &s;taple-Trafick of it,</L>
<L>(After their Plea&s;ure, or their Profit)</L>
<L>To murder <HI>Kings,</HI> and mangle Realmes:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>13</HEAD>
<L>Thee, IESVS (Mercifull and Meek)</L>
<L>They make a Tyrant (<HI>Nero</HI>-like)</L>
<L>Bloody and brute, to kill and quell:</L>
<L>Thee, SAVIOVR, Source of <HI>Innocence,</HI></L>
<L>Thee, <HI>Prince of Peace and Patience;</HI></L>
<L>They make a <HI>Fury,</HI> fierce and fell.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>14</HEAD>
<L>Thee, <HI>Iu&s;tice</HI>-Fountain, <HI>Order's</HI> Authour;</L>
<L>They make <HI>Wrong's</HI> Fort, <HI>Confu&s;ion's</HI> Fautor:</L>
<L>Immortall Spring immaculate</L>
<L>Of <HI>Loue,</HI> of <HI>Concord,</HI> and of VNION,</L>
<L>They make Thee Trumpet of <HI>Di&s;-Vnion,</HI></L>
<L>And Tinder of immortall <HI>Hate.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="124" REF="27">
<HEAD>15</HEAD>
<L>Such <HI>Cannons</HI> roare from <HI>Trent</HI> and <HI>Tiber,</HI></L>
<L>From <HI>Powder Traitors</HI> bloodie <HI>Briber,</HI></L>
<L>Who&s;e HOLINESSE, is <HI>Hollowne&s;&s;e;</HI></L>
<L>Who&s;e <HI>Synagogue,</HI> is Sinners Wrack;</L>
<L>Who&s;e <HI>Faith,</HI> is FAVX &amp; RAVAILLIAC</L>
<L>Who&s;e <HI>Deeds</HI> &amp; <HI>Doctrine,</HI> Wickedne&s;&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>16</HEAD>
<L>O, Where is then <HI>The Holy Flocke!</HI></L>
<L>Call'd in one <HI>Hope,</HI> built on one <HI>Rock,</HI></L>
<L>Into one <HI>Faith</HI> incorporing;</L>
<L>Thorough one <HI>Bapti&s;me,</HI> by one <HI>Word,</HI></L>
<L>Vnder one <HI>Father (God</HI> and <HI>Lord</HI>)</L>
<L>One onely <HI>Prophet, Priest</HI> and <HI>King.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>17</HEAD>
<L>There, there (as <HI>Children</HI> of one <HI>Mother</HI>)</L>
<L>They &s;uccour and &s;upport each other,</L>
<L>In <HI>Vnion,</HI> and in mutuall <HI>Charitie;</HI></L>
<L>All making but one Body, being</L>
<L>All of <HI>One Minde,</HI> in One agreeing:</L>
<L>Bound by <HI>One Bond of Peace, and Verity.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="125" REF="27">
<HEAD>18</HEAD>
<L>O, can Wee (wretched, witched Elues)</L>
<L>Can Wee, Wee Many, boa&s;t our Selues</L>
<L><HI>One Bread, one Body (my&s;tick-wi&s;e);</HI></L>
<L>And &s;ay that Wee are daily fed</L>
<L>In common with one <HI>Drinke</HI> and <HI>Bread,</HI></L>
<L>Amid our Many Enmities?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>19</HEAD>
<L>Alas! Where are tho&s;e <HI>Saincts</HI> becomne.</L>
<L>Worthy the &s;tyle of <HI>Chri&s;tendome;</HI></L>
<L>From SIN'S <HI>Dominion</HI> inly freed;</L>
<L>Ve&s;&s;ells of Honor, full of <HI>Grace,</HI></L>
<L>Abounding in <HI>good-Workes</HI> apace?</L>
<L>None now good Thought hath; le&s;&s;e good <HI>Deed.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>20</HEAD>
<L>Nothing but fal&s;e EQVIVOCATION:</L>
<L>Nothing but wilfull <HI>Obduration:</HI></L>
<L>Nothing but <HI>Error</HI> and <HI>Di&s;order:</HI></L>
<L>Nothing but <HI>Pride</HI> and <HI>In&s;olence:</HI></L>
<L>Nothing but impious <HI>Impudence:</HI></L>
<L>Nothing but <HI>Trea&s;on, Theft,</HI> &amp; <HI>Murder.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="126" REF="28">
<HEAD>21</HEAD>
<L><HI>Contempt</HI> of GOD and of all <HI>Good,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Rape, Riot, Ince&s;t, Bribery, Blood,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Periurie, Plotting, all Impietie,</HI></L>
<L>With more then brute&s;t <HI>Bruti&s;hne&s;&s;e,</HI></L>
<L>This more-than-<HI>Iron-Age</HI> po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e:</L>
<L>No <HI>Loue,</HI> no <HI>Friend&s;hip,</HI> no <HI>Societie.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>22</HEAD>
<L><HI>Court, Citie, Countrey,</HI> Euery Sort</L>
<L>Of either Sex, make Sinne a Sport</L>
<L><HI>(Pride, Painting, Poys'ning, Cous'ning, Whoring);</HI></L>
<L>In <HI>Sloth,</HI> or <HI>Surfeit,</HI> euer-drown'd;</L>
<L>To <HI>Bacchus,</HI> or <HI>Tobacco</HI> bound;</L>
<L>With <HI>&s;wearing, flaring, &s;tabbing, roaring.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>23</HEAD>
<L><HI>Wrath, Enuie, Sclander,</HI> and <HI>Su&s;picion,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Fraude, Rancour, Rapine,</HI> and <HI>Ambition,</HI></L>
<L>With <HI>Bla&s;phemies,</HI> all ouer-&s;pread:</L>
<L>Th'old <HI>Christians</HI> Badge, bright <HI>Charitie</HI></L>
<L>(Mo&s;t frequent then; Now Raritie,</L>
<L>Is, now-adayes, not downe, but Dead.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="127" REF="28">
<HEAD>24</HEAD>
<L>We are &s;o Punctual and Preci&s;e</L>
<L>In <HI>Doctrine (Phara&s;aik-wi&s;e)</HI></L>
<L>To &s;eem (at lea&s;t) the mo&s;t RELIGIOVS,</L>
<L>That true RELIGION we deforme,</L>
<L>While to our Phant'&s;ies we reforme</L>
<L>Shadowes, and not <HI>our Selues,</HI> litigious.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>25</HEAD>
<L>RELIGION! O, Thou Life of Life!</L>
<L>How Wordlings, that profane thee rife,</L>
<L>Can wre&s;t thee to their Appetites!</L>
<L>How Princes, who Thy Power defie,</L>
<L>Pretend thee, for their <HI>Tyranny;</HI></L>
<L>And People, for their fal&s;e <HI>Delights!</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>26</HEAD>
<L>Vnder Thy &s;acred Name, all-ouer,</L>
<L>All Vicious all their Vices couer:</L>
<L>The <HI>Violent,</HI> their <HI>Violence:</HI></L>
<L>The <HI>Proud,</HI> their <HI>Pride:</HI> the <HI>Fal&s;e</HI> their <HI>Fraud:</HI></L>
<L>The <HI>Thee&s;e</HI> his <HI>Theft:</HI> her <HI>Filth</HI> the <HI>Baud:</HI></L>
<L>The <HI>Impudent,</HI> their <HI>Impudence.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="128" REF="29">
<HEAD>24</HEAD>
<L><HI>Ambition,</HI> vnder Thee, a&s;pires:</L>
<L><HI>Auarice,</HI> vnder Thee, de&s;ires:</L>
<L><HI>Sloath,</HI> vnder Thee, her Ea&s;e a&s;&s;umes:</L>
<L><HI>Luxe,</HI> vnder Thee, all ouer-flowes:</L>
<L><HI>Wrath,</HI> vnder Thee, outragious growes:</L>
<L><HI>All Euill,</HI> vnder Thee, pre&s;umes.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>28</HEAD>
<L>RELIGION, yer&s;t &s;o venerable,</L>
<L>Th' art now-adayes but made a Fable;</L>
<L><HI>A holy Maske</HI> on <HI>Follies</HI> Browe,</L>
<L>Where vnder lyes <HI>Di&s;simulation,</HI></L>
<L>Lined with all <HI>Abhomination:</HI></L>
<L>Sacred RELIGION, Where art Thou?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>29</HEAD>
<L>Not in the <HI>Church,</HI> with <HI>Simonie:</HI></L>
<L>Nor on the <HI>Bench,</HI> with <HI>Briberie:</HI></L>
<L>Nor in the <HI>Court,</HI> with <HI>Machiauell:</HI></L>
<L>Nor in the <HI>Citie,</HI> with <HI>Deceits:</HI></L>
<L>Nor in the <HI>Countrie,</HI> with <HI>Debates:</HI></L>
<L>For, What hath <HI>Heauen</HI> to doe with <HI>Hell?</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="129" REF="29">
<HEAD>30</HEAD>
<L>Sith what&s;oeuer Showe we make</L>
<L>(For Profit or Promotions &s;ake)</L>
<L>What-euer Colour we put-on;</L>
<L>Where, <HI>Faith</HI> no other Fruits affords,</L>
<L>But euill-<HI>works</HI> (though ciuill words)</L>
<L>Indeed is no RELIGION.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>31</HEAD>
<L>Reuerend RELIGION, Where's the heart</L>
<L>That entertaines thee as thou art,</L>
<L>Sincerely, for Thine owne re&s;pect;</L>
<L>Where is the Minde, Where is the Man,</L>
<L>May right be call'd a <HI>Christian;</HI></L>
<L>Not formall, but in true effect?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>32</HEAD>
<L>Who fixing all his <HI>Faith</HI> and <HI>Hope</HI></L>
<L>On GOD alone, from &s;acred Scope</L>
<L>Of his pure Statutes will nou &s;tray:</L>
<L>Who comes in <HI>Zeale</HI> and <HI>Humblene&s;&s;e,</HI></L>
<L>With true and heartie <HI>Singlene&s;&s;e,</HI></L>
<L>Willing to walke the perfect Way:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="130" REF="30">
<HEAD>33</HEAD>
<L>Who loues, with all his Soule and Minde,</L>
<L>Almightie GOD, All-Wi&s;e, All-Kinde,</L>
<L>All-whole, All-Holy, All-&s;ufficing:</L>
<L>Who but One onely GOD adores</L>
<L>(Though <HI>Tyrants</HI> rage, and <HI>Sathan</HI> roares)</L>
<L>Without digre&s;&s;ing, or di&s;gui&s;ing:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>34</HEAD>
<L>Who GOD's due <HI>Honour</HI> hath not giuen</L>
<L>To Other things, in Earth or Heauen;</L>
<L>But bow'd and vow'd to Him alone;</L>
<L>Him onely &s;eru'd with filial Awe,</L>
<L>Pleas'd and delighted in his Lawe,</L>
<L>Di&s;cour&s;ing Day and Night thereon;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>35</HEAD>
<L>Nor, not for Forme, or Fa&s;hion &s;ake,</L>
<L>Or, for a Time, a Showe to make,</L>
<L>Others the better to beguile:</L>
<L>Nor it, in Ie&s;t, to wre&s;t or cite;</L>
<L>But in his heart it deep to write,</L>
<L>And worke it with his hands the-while;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="131" REF="30">
<HEAD>36</HEAD>
<L>Louing his neighbour as him-Selfe,</L>
<L>Sharing to him his Power, his Pelfe,</L>
<L>His Coun&s;ailes, Comforts, Coates, and Cates:</L>
<L>Dooing in all things to his Brother,</L>
<L>But as Him-&s;elfe would wi&s;h from Other,</L>
<L>Not Offring Other what Hee hates:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>37</HEAD>
<L>Who&s;e Heart, inclin'd as doth behooue-it,</L>
<L>Vnlawfully doth Nothing couet</L>
<L>(To Any an offence to offer):</L>
<L>But, iu&s;t and gentle towards all,</L>
<L>Would rather (vnto great, or &s;mall)</L>
<L>Than doe one Wrong, an hundred &s;uffer:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>38</HEAD>
<L>Not thir&s;ting Others Land, or Life;</L>
<L>Nor neighing after Maide or Wife;</L>
<L>Nor ayming any Iniury;</L>
<L>Neither of polling, nor of pilling,</L>
<L>Neither of cur&s;ing, nor of killing,</L>
<L>Neither of Fraud, nor Forgerie;</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="132" REF="31">
<HEAD>39</HEAD>
<L>But will confe&s;&s;e, if he offend,</L>
<L>Relent, <HI>Repent,</HI> and &s;oone amend,</L>
<L>And timely tender Satisfaction.</L>
<L>Sure His RELIGION is not fayned,</L>
<L>Who doth and hath him Thus demeaned;</L>
<L>Ay deadly hating <HI>Euill-action.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>40</HEAD>
<L>Therefore, O! Va&s;&s;alls of the Diuell,</L>
<L>That cannot, will not, cea&s;e from Euill,</L>
<L>Ve&s;&s;ells of <HI>Wrath</HI> and <HI>Reprobation;</HI></L>
<L>Pre&s;ume no longer Now to &s;hrowd</L>
<L>Vnder RELIGION's &s;acred Clowd</L>
<L>Your Manifold <HI>Abhomination.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>41</HEAD>
<L>If, But to <HI>&s;eem good,</HI> goodly &s;eem;</L>
<L>To <HI>be good,</HI> better farre e&s;teem:</L>
<L>Why <HI>&s;eem</HI> you what <HI>to be</HI> you care not?</L>
<L>If To <HI>Seem euill,</HI> be ami&s;&s;e;</L>
<L>Sure, <HI>To be euill,</HI> wor&s;e it is:</L>
<L>Why <HI>be you</HI> what <HI>To &s;eem</HI> you dare not?</L>
<L><HI>Be,</HI> as you <HI>&s;eem;</HI> or <HI>&s;eem</HI> the Same</L>
<L>You <HI>be:</HI> to free RELIGION's Blame.</L>
</LG>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
<PB REF="31">
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<PB REF="32">
<PB REF="32">
<P>A GLIMSE OF <HI>HEAVENLY IOYES:</HI> Or <HI>New</HI> HIERVSALEM. In <HI>An old Hymne</HI> extracted <HI>from</HI> The mo&s;t Diuine <HI>S^t. AVGVSTINE.</HI></P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="dedicatory verse or poem">
<PB REF="33">
<PB REF="33">
<HEAD>To the Worthy Friend of Worthine&s;s S^r. PETER MANVVOOD, Knight of the Hon^b^l. Order of The Bath.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>To regi&s;ter, to After-Times,</L>
<L>Your noble Fauour to My Rimes;</L>
<L>Your loue to Vertue, Learning, Arts;</L>
<L>Your Bounty towards Worthy Parts;</L>
<L>Your Pitie; and your pious Zeale</L>
<L>To GOD, to Church, to Common-weale;</L>
<L>Your Loyaltie, in euery kinde;</L>
<L>The Honour of your Humble Minde:</L>
<L>All, all my MANWOOD to rehear&s;e,</L>
<L>Merits a <HI>Volume,</HI> not a <HI>Ver&s;e.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>But, poore diuided I (that owe,</L>
<L>To many, Much; as many knowe;</L>
<L>And fame would giue Content to Each,</L>
<L>So far-forth as my Stocke will reach)</L>
<L>Vnable (after your De&s;art)</L>
<L>To render All, mu&s;t tender Part,</L>
<PB REF="34">
<L>To te&s;tifie my Thankfull-Thought,</L>
<L>(But as I could; not as I ought)</L>
<L>And what my Weakenes cannot pay,</L>
<L>Th' AL-MIGHTIE-most I humbly pray</L>
<L>To guerdon with a <HI>Diadem,</HI></L>
<L>Within His NEW-IERVSALEM.</L>
</LG>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Yours</HI> much Obliged, <HI>Io&s;uah Slyve&s;ter.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<DIV1 TYPE="poem">
<PB N="137" REF="34">
<HEAD><HI>New</HI> HIERVSALEM.</HEAD>
<L>MY Heart (as <HI>Hart</HI> for Water) thir&s;ts</L>
<L>For Life's eternall Fount:</L>
<L>My Soule, my Bodies Pri&s;oner, longs,</L>
<L>From Pri&s;on free, to mount;</L>
<L>Sighes, &s;ues, pure&s;us, poore Exile heer,</L>
<L>Her Country to recouer;</L>
<L>Too-abiect, &s;ubiect to Di&s;grace,</L>
<L>And too-too-tryumpht-ouer.</L>
<L>&para; She &s;eemes to &s;ee the the Glory now,</L>
<L>Which, when &s;he &s;inn'd, &s;hee lo&s;t:</L>
<L>An in&s;tant III, of Good for-gone</L>
<L>Augments the Memory mo&s;t.</L>
<L>&para; But, of cele&s;tiall <HI>Soueraine Bli&s;&s;e,</HI></L>
<L>Who can &s;et-forth the Solace!</L>
<L>Where &s;tands, of euer-liuing Stones,</L>
<L>An euer-la&s;ting Palace;</L>
<L>The lofty Roofes and &s;tately Roomes,</L>
<L>Reflecting golden beames:</L>
<L>The Gates and goodly Walls about,</L>
<L>Of rich and orient Gemmes:</L>
<PB N="138" REF="35">
<L>The Streets, all pav'd with pure&s;t Gold,</L>
<L>As &s;mooth as any Gla&s;&s;e is:</L>
<L>No Foile, no Soile, no Sorrow there;</L>
<L>No Sicknes thither pa&s;&s;es.</L>
<L>No Winter's Fro&s;t, no Summer's Toa&s;t,</L>
<L>Doth there Di&s;temper bring:</L>
<L>But Flowres perpetuall flowring there,</L>
<L>Make there perpetuall Spring.</L>
<L>There, <HI>Bal&s;ame, Saffron, Lillie, Ro&s;e,</HI></L>
<L>Doe &s;weat, &s;ent, &s;hine, and blu&s;h:</L>
<L>There, Mead, and Field &s;pring, &s;pire, and yeeld;</L>
<L>Rills, Milke, and Hony gu&s;h:</L>
<L>There <HI>Aromaticks</HI> breath-about</L>
<L>Their odoriferous Aire:</L>
<L>There, euer dangle dainty Fruits</L>
<L>On Trees &s;till blooming faire:</L>
<L>There, neuer Moone doth waxe or wane,</L>
<L>Nor Sun, nor Starres decline;</L>
<L>But There, the LAMB (the Light of Lights)</L>
<L>Eternally dooth &s;hine.</L>
<L>There, Time hath no alternate Term;</L>
<L>No Night, but euer Day;</L>
<L>For, There, the <HI>Saints</HI> are (as the Sun)</L>
<L>Mo&s;t Bright, in white Aray;</L>
<PB N="139" REF="35">
<L>Triumphant; after Conque&s;t, <HI>crow'nd,</HI></L>
<L>In mutuall Iov they greet;</L>
<L>Recounting &s;afe the Battels fought,</L>
<L>Their Foes now vnder-feet;</L>
<L>Pure, purifi'd from dregs and dro&s;&s;e;</L>
<L>From fle&s;hly Combats freed:</L>
<L>Their Fle&s;h, made &s;pirituall, with the Spirit,</L>
<L>In One &s;elf-&s;ame agreed:</L>
<L>In perfect and perpetuall <HI>Peace;</HI></L>
<L>Subiect no more to &s;inning:</L>
<L>Obnoxious nor to Change, nor Chance;</L>
<L>Return'd to their <HI>Beginning.</HI></L>
<L>And Face to Face for euer &s;ee</L>
<L>All <HI>Beauties Glory</HI> bright,</L>
<L>Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ing &s;empiternall Ioyes,</L>
<L>In that &s;upernall Sight</L>
<L>(The Sight <HI>of GOD,</HI> the <HI>Soueraign Good,</HI></L>
<L>The Sunne of <HI>Happine&s;&s;e,</HI></L>
<L>Such as no heart can heer compri&s;e,</L>
<L>Nor any <HI>Art</HI> expre&s;&s;e.)</L>
<L>In&s;talled in a <HI>Bli&s;&s; full</HI> State</L>
<L><HI>Of Glory,</HI> &s;till <HI>The Same;</HI></L>
<L>As &s;ure, as pure, from Faile or Fall,</L>
<L>From Sorrow, Sin, and Shame.</L>
<PB N="140" REF="36">
<L>All ioyous, liuely, louely, bright,</L>
<L>To no Mi&s;&s;hap expo&s;ed:</L>
<L>No Danger, Death, Di&s;ea&s;e, nor Age;</L>
<L>In Health and Youth repo&s;ed.</L>
<L>Hencefoorth, for all <HI>Eternitie,</HI></L>
<L>They flouri&s;h fre&s;h and green:</L>
<L>For, <HI>Death</HI> is dead, <HI>Time</HI> termined,</L>
<L><HI>Corruption</HI> conquer'd cleen.</L>
<L>Now know they Him, that knoweth All.</L>
<L>And in beholding Him</L>
<L>They All behold (as in a Gla&s;&s;e)</L>
<L>Before them bright and brim.</L>
<L>In Vnity of minde combin'd,</L>
<L>One very thing they Will;</L>
<L>And euer Con&s;tant, neuer cro&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>One and the &s;ame they Nill.</L>
<L>As heer in <HI>Grace,</HI> in <HI>Glory</HI> there,</L>
<L>Though diuer&s;ly, they &s;hine:</L>
<L><HI>Loue</HI> equall's All; Each louing All</L>
<L>With mutuall Loue diuine.</L>
<L>So that the Good of Euery-one</L>
<L>Becomes the Good of All.</L>
<L>Where lies the Body, lightly there</L>
<L>Will Eagles flock and fall.</L>
<PB N="141" REF="36">
<L>Where-with, with Angels, <HI>Saincted-Soules</HI></L>
<L>Are aye refre&s;ht and fed</L>
<L>(For, Either Countrie's Burge&s;&s;es</L>
<L>Are nouri&s;ht with One Bread)</L>
<L>And euer Fain, though euer full;</L>
<L>Wi&s;hing but What they haue:</L>
<L>Not &s;ated with Satietie;</L>
<L>Nor needing more to craue:</L>
<L>De&s;iring &s;till, their fill they eate;</L>
<L>And eating, &s;till de&s;ire.</L>
<L>Still, new melodious Songs they &s;ound</L>
<L>With Hea'uns harmonious Quire;</L>
<L>And Organs Worthy (for His Worth</L>
<L>Through Whom they ouer-came)</L>
<L>Ring <HI>Holy, Holy, Holy, Pray&s;e</HI></L>
<L>To HIS mo&s;t HOLY <HI>Name.</HI></L>
<L>&para; O happie, happie, happie, Soules,</L>
<L>That &s;ee Heau'ns <HI>King,</HI> aboue;</L>
<L>And vnderneath-them Sun and Moon,</L>
<L>And all the World to moue!</L>
<L>&para; <HI>O Chri&s;t, victorious Lord of Hoa&s;ts,</HI></L>
<L><HI>So lead my Soule and Heart.</HI></L>
<L><HI>That, hauing fought, as heer I ought,</HI></L>
<L><HI>I may haue there a Part</HI></L>
<PB N="142" REF="37">
<L><HI>Among that Ble&s;&s;ed Hierarchie,</HI></L>
<L><HI>In Happine&s;&s;e &s;upreme,</HI></L>
<L><HI>A free and fellow-Citizen</HI></L>
<L><HI>Of</HI> NEVV-IERVSALEM.</L>
<L><HI>Vouch&s;afe me Grace, to run my Race,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And &s;trenuou&s;ly to &s;triue</HI></L>
<L><HI>Vnto the End, that in the End</HI></L>
<L><HI>I may the Crowne atchiue:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Not for My Work, but for Thy Worth;</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thy Mercy, not My Merit:</HI></L>
<L><HI>So Laud and Pray&s;e be &s;ung alwayes</HI></L>
<L>TO FATHER, SONNE, &amp; SPIRIT.</L>
<TRAILER>TRIN-VNI DEO <HI>Creatori, Redemptori, Directori</HI> MEO, GLORIA In Secula-Seculorum, AMEN.</TRAILER>
<PB REF="37">
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<DIV1 TYPE="title page">
<PB REF="38">
<PB REF="38">
<P>AVTO-MACHIA: <HI>Or</HI> THE SELF-CONFLICT of A CHRISTIAN. from <HI>THE LATIN of</HI> M^r. GEORGE GOODVVIN, <HI>Tran&s;lated</HI> &amp; <HI>Dedicated</HI> To THE HONORABLE (late) <HI>La: MARY NEVIL.</HI> By IOSVAH SYLVESTER.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="dedicatory verse or poem">
<PB REF="39">
<HEAD>TO The truely-Honorable <HI>M^r^i^s. Cecilie Nevil,</HI> Anagramma Italiano. <HI>Cecilia Nevila.</HI> E Vitina al Ciel.</HEAD>
<EPIGRAPH>
<Q><L><HI>Heav'ns Neighbour is</HI> your Anagram:</L>
<L>Your Noble Graces proue the &s;ame.</L></Q>
</EPIGRAPH>
<L>FAire <HI>Heire</HI> of All Your MOTHERS <HI>Good</HI></L>
<L>(Wit, Vertue, Beautie, Bountie, Blood)</L>
<L>Among the <HI>Honors</HI> that accrue,</L>
<L>By Her Decea&s;e divolv'd to You,</L>
<L>Mine humble <HI>Service</HI> and <HI>This Song,</HI></L>
<L>(How little) doth not lea&s;t belong</L>
<L>(In <HI>Little</HI> lyes a <HI>mickle</HI> Right:</L>
<L>As in a <HI>Million</HI> In a <HI>Mite</HI>)</L>
<L>To her <HI>Memorial,</HI> and Your <HI>Merit,</HI></L>
<L>True <HI>Mirror</HI> of MINERVA'S <HI>Spirit.</HI></L>
<L>Aceept it therefore, <HI>double</HI> Yours;</L>
<L>By Her Donation, and by Ours,</L>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Humbly deuoted</HI> (as mo&s;t-bound) <HI>To Both Your Noble Families,</HI> IOSVAH SYLVESTER.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="dedicatory verse or poem">
<PB REF="39">
<HEAD>TO The Right Noble, Vertuous &amp; learned <HI>LADIE,</HI> The Ladie MARY <HI>Nevil.</HI> </HEAD>
<EPIGRAPH>
<Q><L>Maria Nevila. </L>
<L><HI>Alia Minerva.</HI></L></Q>
</EPIGRAPH>
<LG>
<L>MAdame, Your loue to Learning, and the Learned,</L>
<L>(In &s;uch a time, &s;o fall of Arts neglect)</L>
<L>Right worthily to Your rare Self hath earned</L>
<L>The Loue of Learning, and the learned Sect:</L>
<L>Whereby, Your Name already is eterned</L>
<L>In <HI>MEMORIES</HI> faire <HI>Temple,</HI> high erect:</L>
<L>And there deuoutiv at Your Vertues Shrine,</L>
<L>I humbly offer this poore <HI>MITE</HI> of <HI>Mine;</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Too &s;mall a <HI>Pre&s;ent</HI> to &s;o great a <HI>GRACE;</HI></L>
<L>And too-vnworthy of Your <HI>Worthine&s;&s;e:</HI></L>
<L>Saue that the <HI>Matter</HI> &s;o exceeds the Ma&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>That oft (perhaps) a greater may be le&s;&s;e:</L>
<L>For, You may &s;ee, within <HI>This little Gla&s;&s;e,</HI></L>
<L>The <HI>LITTLE-WORLD'S</HI> great-little-Mindednes:</L>
<L><HI>MAN'S</HI> Strife with <HI>MAN;</HI> Our Fle&s;h &amp; Spirit in <HI>Duel:</HI></L>
<L>Couragious Cowards, too-&s;elf-kindly-Cruel.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB REF="40">
<L>Vouch&s;afe t'accept then This &s;mall <HI>New-yeeres-Gift,</HI></L>
<L>With humble Vowes of a di&s;-a&s;tred Mu&s;e,</L>
<L>Which laui&s;hly hath &s;own her <HI>Seeds</HI> of Thrife</L>
<L>So high and dry, that yet no <HI>Fruit</HI> en&s;ues.</L>
<L>El&s;e need Shee not haue made &s;o hard a Shift;</L>
<L>Nor this &s;mall Gift &s;o greatly to excu&s;e.</L>
<L>But &s;ith, as yet, Shee cannot what Shee would;</L>
<L><HI>Madame,</HI> accept her Zeal, &amp; what Shee could.</L>
</LG>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>To Your Hono^b^l. Vertues <HI>mo&s;t deuoted, IOS. SYL.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<DIV1 TYPE="poem">
<PB N="147" REF="40">
<HEAD><HI>AVTO-MACHIA.</HI> or Self-Ciuil-Warr.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L><HI>I</HI> Sing not <HI>PRIAM,</HI> nor the Siege of <HI>TROY:</HI></L>
<L>Nor <HI>Agamemnon</HI>'s Iarr with <HI>Thetis</HI> Ioy:</L>
<L>I &s;ing not heer <HI>AENEAS</HI> &s;tormfull Fate;</L>
<L>Queene <HI>Dido's</HI> loue, nor Godde&s;&s;e <HI>Iuno's</HI> hate:</L>
<L>I &s;ing not <HI>CAESAR,</HI> nor his Sonne-in-law;</L>
<L>Who&s;e ciuill Rage <HI>Rome</HI> and <HI>Phar&s;alia</HI> &s;aw.</L>
<L>I &s;ing my <HI>SELF;</HI> my <HI>C uil-Warrs</HI> within;</L>
<L>The <HI>Victories</HI> I howrely lo&s;e and win;</L>
<L>The dayly <HI>Duel,</HI> the continuall Strife,</L>
<L>The <HI>Warr</HI> that ends not, till I end my life.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And yet, not Mine alone, not onely Mine,</L>
<L>But euery-One's that vnder th'honor'd Signe</L>
<L>Of <HI>CHRIST</HI> his Standard, &s;hal his Name enroule,</L>
<L>With holy Vowes of Body and of Soule.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Vouch&s;afe, O <HI>Father,</HI> &s;uccour from aboue;</L>
<L>Courage of Soule, comfort of he us'nly Loue:</L>
<L>Triumphant Captaine, Glorious <HI>General,</HI></L>
<L>Furni&s;h me Armes from thine owne <HI>Arcenall:</HI></L>
<L>O Sucred Spirit, My &s;pirit's a&s;si&s;tant bee;</L>
<L>And in <HI>This Conflict,</HI> make Mee conquer <HI>Mee.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="148" REF="41">
<L>VERTVE I loue, I leane to <HI>Vice:</HI> I blame</L>
<L>This wicked World, yet I imbrace the &s;ame.</L>
<L>I climbe to Heav'n, I cleaue to Earth: I both</L>
<L>Too-loue my Self, and yet my Self I loath.</L>
<L>Peace-les, I Peace pur&s;ue, in <HI>Ciuill Warr,</HI></L>
<L>With and again&s;t my Self, I ioyne, I iarr:</L>
<L>I burn, I freeze; I fall downe, I &s;tand fa&s;t:</L>
<L>Well-ill I fare; I lory, though di&s;grac't:</L>
<L>I die aliue: I triumph, put to flight;</L>
<L>I feed on Cares, in Teares I take delight:</L>
<L>My Slaue (ba&s;e-braue) I &s;erue; I roame at large,</L>
<L>In libertie, yet lie in Gaolers Charge:</L>
<L>I &s;trike, and &s;troak my Self: I, kindly-keen,</L>
<L>Work mine own Woe, rub my Gal, rouze my Spleen.</L>
<L>Oft, in my Sleep, to &s;ee rare Dreams I dreame;</L>
<L>Waking, mine Eye doth &s;carce di&s;cerne a Beame.</L>
<L>My Minde's &s;trange <HI>Megrim</HI> whirling to and fro,</L>
<L>Now thru&s;ts me hither, thither then doth throw.</L>
<L>In diuers <HI>Factions</HI> I my Self diuide;</L>
<L>And All I trie, and flie to euery Side.</L>
<L>What I but now de&s;ir'd, I now di&s;dain:</L>
<L>What (late) I waigh'd not, now I wi&s;h again:</L>
<L>To-Day, to-Morrow; This, That, Now, Anon,</L>
<L>All, Nothing, craue I; Euer Neuer-one.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="149" REF="41">
<L>Dull Combatant, vnready for the Field,</L>
<L>Too-tardie take I (after wounds) my Shield.</L>
<L>Still hurried headlong to vnlawfull things,</L>
<L>Downe-dragging <HI>Vice</HI> Me eas'ly down-ward dings:</L>
<L>But, &s;acred <HI>Vertue</HI> climbes &s;o hard and hie,</L>
<L>That hardly can I her &s;teeps &s;teps de&s;crie.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Both <HI>Right</HI> and <HI>Wrong</HI> with Mee indifferent are:</L>
<L>My <HI>Lu&s;t</HI> is <HI>Lawe:</HI> what I de&s;ire, I dare.</L>
<L>(Is there &s;o foule a <HI>Fault,</HI> &s;o fond a Fact,</L>
<L>Which, Folly asking Furie dares not act?)</L>
<L>But, Art-les, heart-les, in <HI>Religion's</HI> Cau&s;e</L>
<L>(To doo her Le&s;&s;ons, and defend her Lawes)</L>
<L>The All-proof Armour of My GOD I lo&s;e,</L>
<L>Fly from my Charge, and yeeld it to his Foes,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Guiltie of Sinn, Sinn's Puni&s;hment I &s;hun,</L>
<L>But not the Guilt, before th' Offence be don</L>
<L>(For, How could &s;hunning of a Sinn, en&s;ew</L>
<L>To be occa&s;ion of another New?)</L>
<L>Oft and again at the &s;ame &s;tone I trip,</L>
<L>As if I learn'd, by falling, not to &s;lip.</L>
<L>Aliue, I peri&s;h, and my Self vndoo;</L>
<L>Mine eyes (Self-wi&s;e) Witting and Willing too.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Sick, to my Self I run for my Relief;</L>
<L>So, Sicker of my <HI>Phy&s;icke,</HI> than my <HI>Grief:</HI></L>
<PB N="150" REF="42">
<L>For, while I &s;eeke my &s;welting Thir&s;t to &s;wage,</L>
<L>Another Thir&s;t more ragingly doth rage:</L>
<L>While, burnt to death, to coole me I de&s;ire;</L>
<L>With Flames my Flames; with Sulphur, quench I Fire:</L>
<L>While that I &s;triue my &s;welling Waues to &s;top,</L>
<L>More &s;tormily they to&s;te aboue my top.</L>
<L>Thus am I cur'd, This is my common Ea&s;e;</L>
<L>My <HI>Med'cine</HI> &s;till, wor&s;e than my wor&s;t Di&s;ea&s;e:</L>
<L>My Sores with Sores, my wounds with wounds I heal,</L>
<L>While to my Self, my Self I &s;till conceal.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>O what lewd Leagues! what Truces make I &s;till,</L>
<L>With Sin, with Sathan, and my wanton Will!</L>
<L>What &s;light occa&s;ions doo I take to &s;inn!</L>
<L>What &s;illy Traines am I intrapped in!</L>
<L>What idle Cloaks for Crimes! what Nets to hide</L>
<L>Notorious Sinns, already long de&s;cri'd!</L>
<L>I write in Ice (Windes Witnes, &s;ign'd with Showrs)</L>
<L>I will redeem my <HI>foule Life's</HI> former howrs:</L>
<L>But, &s;oone the &s;winge of Cu&s;tome (Whirlwind-like)</L>
<L>Rapting my Pa&s;&s;ion (euer Fa&s;hion-&s;ick)</L>
<L>Tran&s;ports Me to the Contrary; alone,</L>
<L>Faint Guard of <HI>Goodne&s;&s;e:</HI> Arm-les Champion.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>My <HI>Green &s;ick</HI> Ta&s;te doth nothing &s;weeter finde,</L>
<L>Than what is bitter to a <HI>gracious</HI> Minde:</L>
<PB N="151" REF="42">
<L><HI>Egypt's</HI> fat Fle&s;h pots I am longing-for:</L>
<L>Th' eternall <HI>Manna</HI> I doe euen abhorre.</L>
<L>World's Monarch <HI>Mammon</HI> (drop&s;ie My&s;ticall)</L>
<L>Cround, round-fac'd Godde&s;&s;e, coyned <HI>Belial:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Midas's</HI> De&s;ire, the Mi&s;er's onely Tru&s;t;</L>
<L>The &s;acred hunger of <HI>Pactolian</HI> Du&s;t,</L>
<L>Gold, Gold bewitches me, and frets accur&s;t</L>
<L>My greedy Throat with more than <HI>Dip&s;ian</HI> Thir&s;t.</L>
<L>My minde's a Gulf who&s;e Gaping Nought can &s;tuff;</L>
<L>My heart a Hell, that neuer hath enough:</L>
<L>The more I haue I craue, and le&s;&s;e content;</L>
<L>In Store mo&s;t Poore, in Plenty Indigent.</L>
<L>For, of the&s;e Gates, how-much &s;o-ere I cram,</L>
<L>It doth not &s;top my Mouth, but &s;trech the &s;ame.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Sweet <HI>V&s;urie</HI>'s Ince&s;tuous <HI>Intere&s;t,</HI></L>
<L>For Dallers, Dolours hoordeth in my Che&s;t.</L>
<L>The World's Slaue <HI>Profit,</HI> &amp; the Minde's Slut <HI>Plea&s;ue</HI></L>
<L>(In&s;atiat Both, Both bound-le&s;s, Both pa&s;t mea&s;ure:</L>
<L>This <HI>Cleopatra.</HI> That <HI>Sardanapale</HI>)</L>
<L>For huge Annoyes, bring Ioyes but &s;hort and &s;mall,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>O, Miracle! begot by Heauen, in Earth</L>
<L>(My Minde diuine. My Bodie brute by Birth)</L>
<L>O! what a Mon&s;ter am I, to depaint!</L>
<L>Halfe-Friend, halfe-Fiend, halfe-Sauage, halfe a Saint;</L>
<PB N="152" REF="43">
<L>High'r than my Fire doth my gro&s;&s;e Earth a&s;pire:</L>
<L>My raging Fle&s;h, my retch-le&s;&s;e Force doth tire,</L>
<L>And (drunk with Worlds-Mu&s;t, &amp; deep &s;unk in Sleep)</L>
<L>My Spirit (the Spy, that warie Watch &s;hould keep)</L>
<L>Betrayes, alas! (Woe that I tru&s;t it &s;o)</L>
<L>My Soule's deer Kingdome, to her deadly Foe.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Through Cares <HI>Charybdis,</HI> &amp; rough Gulfs of Grief,</L>
<L>Star lar-bord run I, Sailing all my Life</L>
<L>On merry-&s;orry Seas; my Winde, my Will;</L>
<L>My Ship, my Fle&s;h; My Sen&s;e, my Pilot &s;till.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>As in a mo&s;t Seditious <HI>Common-weale,</HI></L>
<L>Within my Bre&s;t I feel my Be&s;t rebell:</L>
<L>Again&s;t their Prince my furious People ri&s;e;</L>
<L>Their Aw-le&s;s Prince dares his owne Lawe de&s;pi&s;e.</L>
<L>Mine <HI>Eue's</HI> an Out-law: And my &s;truggling Twins</L>
<L><HI>Iacob</HI> and <HI>E&s;au</HI> neuer can be friends.</L>
<L>Such deadly Feud, &s;uch di&s;cord, &s;uch de&s;pight</L>
<L>(Euen betweene Brethren) &s;uch continuall fight.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>What's done in Me, Another doth, not I;</L>
<L>Yet both (alas!) my Gue&s;t and Enemy:</L>
<L>My minde, vn-kind (&s;uborned by my Foe)</L>
<L>Indeed, within me, but not with me Tho;</L>
<L>Neer, yet far-off; in fle&s;hly Lees be-&s;oild,</L>
<L>And with the World's contagious Filth defil'd.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="153" REF="43">
<L>I am too-narrow for mine owne De&s;ires;</L>
<L>My Selfe denies me, what my Selfe requires:</L>
<L>Fearfull I hope: carefull-&s;ecure I langui&s;h:</L>
<L>Hungry too-full; Dry-Drunken; &s;ugred Angui&s;h;</L>
<L>Wearie of Life, merry in Death; I &s;uck</L>
<L>Wine from the Pumice; Hony from the Rock.</L>
<L>On Thornes my Grapes; on Garlick growes my Ro&s;e;</L>
<L>From Crums my Sums; from Flint my Fou~tain flowes:</L>
<L>In &s;howres of Teares, mine houres of Fears I mourne:</L>
<L>My Looks to Brooks, my Beams to Streams I turne:</L>
<L>Yet, in this Torrent of my Torments rife,</L>
<L>I &s;ink Annoyes, and drink the Ioyes of Life.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Dim light, brim night; Beams wauing clowdy-cleer:</L>
<L>Vn&s;table State, void Hope, vaine Help, far-neer:</L>
<L>Fal&s;e-true Per&s;wa&s;ion, Law-le&s;s Lawfulne&s;s;</L>
<L>Confu&s;ed Method, Milde-wilde War-like Peace:</L>
<L>Di&s;ordered Order, Mournefull Meriments;</L>
<L>Dark Day, Wrong way, Dull double-Diligence:</L>
<L>Infamous Fame, known Error, Skil-le&s;s Skill:</L>
<L>Mad Minde, rude Rea&s;on, an vnwilling Will:</L>
<L>A healthie Plague, a wealthie Want, poor Trea&s;ure:</L>
<L>A plea&s;ing Torment, a Tormenting Plea&s;ure:</L>
<L>An odious Loue an vgly Beauty; ba&s;e</L>
<L>Reproachful Honour, a di&s;gracefull Grace:</L>
<PB N="154" REF="44">
<L>A fruit-le&s;s Fruite, A dry di&s;-flowred Flower:</L>
<L>A feeble force, a Conquered Conquerour:</L>
<L>A &s;ickly Health, dead Life, and re&s;t-le&s;&s;e Re&s;t,</L>
<L>The&s;e are the Comforts of my Soule di&s;tre&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>O! how I Like, Di&s;-like; De&s;ire, Di&s;daine;</L>
<L>Repell, repeal; loathe, and delight againe!</L>
<L>O! What, Whom, Whether (neither Fle&s;h nor Fi&s;h)</L>
<L>How, weary of, the &s;ame againe I wi&s;h!</L>
<L>I will, I nill; I nill, I will; my Minde</L>
<L>Per&s;wading This, my Mood to That inclin'd.</L>
<L>My loo&s;e Affection (<HI>Proteus</HI>-like) appeares</L>
<L>In euery Forme; at-once it frownes and fleeres.</L>
<L>Mine ill-good Will, is vaine and variable:</L>
<L>My <HI>(Hydra)</HI> Fle&s;h, buds Heads innumerable:</L>
<L>My Minde's a Maze; a Labyrinth, my Rea&s;on:</L>
<L>Mine Eye (fal&s;e Spy) the Doore to Phant&s;ies Trea&s;on:</L>
<L>My rebell Sen&s;e (Self-&s;oothing) &s;till affects</L>
<L>What it &s;hould fly; What it &s;hould ply, neglects:</L>
<L>My flitting Hope, with Pa&s;sions Storms is to&s;t</L>
<L>But now to Heauen, anon to Hell almo&s;t:</L>
<L>Concording Di&s;cord kils me; and againe,</L>
<L>Di&s;cording Concord doth my Life &s;u&s;taine.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>My Selfe at once I both di&s;plea&s;e and plea&s;e;</L>
<L>Without my Selfe, my Selfe I faine would Seaze:</L>
<PB N="155" REF="44">
<L>For my too-much of Me, Me much annoyes:</L>
<L>And my Selfe's Plenty, my poore Selfe de&s;troyes:</L>
<L>Who &s;eeks Me in Me, In Me &s;hall not finde</L>
<L>Me as my Selfe: <HI>Hermaphrodite</HI> in minde,</L>
<L>I am (at once) Male, Female, Neuter: yet</L>
<L>What-ere I am, I am not mine, I weet:</L>
<L>I am not with my &s;elfe, as I conceiue:</L>
<L>Wretch that I am, my Selfe, my Selfe deceiue:</L>
<L>Vnto my Selfe, my Selfe my Selfe betray:</L>
<L>I, from my &s;elfe, bani&s;h my Selfe away:</L>
<L>My Selfe agrees not with my Selfe a iot,</L>
<L>Knowes not my Selfe; I haue my Selfe forgot:</L>
<L>Again&s;t my Selfe, my Selfe mooue Iarres vniu&s;t:</L>
<L>I tru&s;t my Selfe, and I my Selfe di&s;tru&s;t:</L>
<L>My Selfe I followe, and my Selfe I fly:</L>
<L>Be&s;ides my Selfe, and in my Selfe, am I:</L>
<L>My Selfe am not my Selfe, another-&s;ame;</L>
<L>Vnlike my Selfe, and like my Selfe I am;</L>
<L>Selfe-fond, Selfe-furious: and thus, Wayward Elfe,</L>
<L>I cannot liue, with, nor with-out my Selfe.</L>
</LG>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="poem">
<PB N="156" REF="45">
<HEAD>A Cup of Con&s;olation for the Chri&s;tian in his <HI>Conflict.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>WHy, Silly Man, &s;ick of exceeding Griefe,</L>
<L>What boots it Thee, vncertain of thy Life,</L>
<L>Of thy Di&s;ea&s;e to make &s;o much adoo?</L>
<L>Thou coward Souldier, and vntoward too,</L>
<L>Away with Feare: defie both Death and Hell:</L>
<L>Meet Armes with Armes, and Darts with Darts repell:</L>
<L>So, the fir&s;t On-&s;et, in this furious Fray,</L>
<L>Shall towards Heauen make thee an ea&s;ie Way;</L>
<L>And open wide tho&s;e Gates &s;o hardly wonne,</L>
<L>Where Snowie-winged <HI>Victorie</HI> doth wunne:</L>
<L>Thou mu&s;t be valiant, and with Dant-le&s;s bre&s;t</L>
<L>Ru&s;h through the thicke&s;t, Run vpon the be&s;t</L>
<L>Of brauing Foes; and on their Flight and Foile,</L>
<L>Reare noble Trophies of triumphant Spoile.</L>
<L>For, This World's Prince, dark <HI>Limboe's</HI> Potentate,</L>
<L>Drifts Man's De&s;truction, and with deadly Hate</L>
<L>(Still Strife-full) labours, and by all meanes &s;eeks</L>
<L>To trouble All, and Heauen with Hell to mix.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="157" REF="45">
<L>Great War with it there is; great War with-out;</L>
<L>With Fle&s;h and Blood, and with the World about.</L>
<L>On this Side, &s;miling <HI>Hope</HI> (with &s;moothe&s;t brow)</L>
<L>Fal&s;e-promi&s;eth long Peace, and Plenty too.</L>
<L>On that Side, &s;allow <HI>Feare</HI> (with fainting breath)</L>
<L>Checks tho&s;e proud thoughts with Threats of War &amp; Death;</L>
<L>And (weary of it Selfe) it Self di&s;tru&s;ts,</L>
<L>It Selfe de&s;troyes, and to Confu&s;ion thru&s;ts;</L>
<L>And ignorant of it &s;elfe's Good (yer Tryall)</L>
<L>In Iealous Rage it euen betraies the loyall.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Here, Clowd-browd <HI>Sorrow.</HI> Whirle-wind-like it hies</L>
<L>Th' amated Minde to to&s;&s;e and tyrannize:</L>
<L>There, dimpled <HI>Ioy</HI> nimbly enringeth round</L>
<L>Her gawdy Troops that &s;tand vpon no ground;</L>
<L>Who&s;e brittle Glo&s;&s;e and glorie la&s;ts and &s;hines</L>
<L>As Stubble-Fire, and Du&s;t before the Windes.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>What &s;hould I &s;peake of all the &s;narefull Wiles,</L>
<L>And cunning Colours of my&s;terious Guiles,</L>
<L>Where-with Death's Founder, and thy Life's drad Foe,</L>
<L>Improuident Man-kind doth ouerthrow?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Yet, be Couragious, yeeld not vnto Euill:</L>
<L>Re&s;i&s;t Beginnings, and defie the Diuell.</L>
<L>For &s;ure Defence amid the&s;e fell Alarms,</L>
<L>Quick buckle-on the&s;e ay-victorious Arms:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<PB N="158" REF="46">
<L>Fir&s;t, gird thy Loynes with <HI>Truth;</HI> thy Bo&s;ome dre&s;&s;e</L>
<L>In the &s;ure Bre&s;t-plate of pure <HI>Righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e:</HI></L>
<L>Put, on thy Head, the Helmet of <HI>Saluation:</HI></L>
<L>Vpon thy Feet, Shooes of the Preparation</L>
<L><HI>Of Heauen's Glad-tidings:</HI> Beare vpon thine Arme</L>
<L>The Shield of <HI>Faith</HI> (Shot-free from euery harme).</L>
<L>Hell's fiery Darts repell thou with the &s;ame;</L>
<L>And through it's Splendor, quench their Flame with Flame</L>
<L>Take in thy hand the bright two-edged-Sword</L>
<L>Of GOD'S Soule-parting, Marow-piercing, <HI>Word:</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thus compleat arm'd from GOD's owne <HI>Arcenal,</HI></L>
<L>And watching duely for his Aide to call,</L>
<L>Thou without doubt &s;halt quickly ouer-come</L>
<L>The World, the Fle&s;h, Sin, Death, &amp; Hell (in &s;umme).</L>
<L>And &s;o (through CHRIST, thy Captain, &amp; thy King)</L>
<L>Of Sin, thy Selfe, And <HI>Sathan</HI> triumphing,</L>
<L>Thou &s;halt (in fine,) the <HI>Happy Crowne</HI> obtaine.</L>
<L>And in th' eternall Promis'd <HI>Kingdome</HI> raigne.</L>
</LG>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
<PB REF="46">
</DIV1>
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