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<P>A Students Lamenta|tion that hath &s;ometime been in London an Apprentice, for the <HI>rebelli|ous tumults lately in the Citie hapning:</HI> for which fiue &s;uffred death on Thur&s;day the 24. of <HI>Iuly</HI> la&s;t.</P>
<Q><HI>Obedientia &s;erui Corona.</HI></Q>
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<HEAD>To the Chri&s;tian Reader.</HEAD>
<P>_GENTLE Reader, when <HI>Solon</HI> made lawes, he left out a punish|mente for Parricides, and being demaunded why he had omitted a penaltie for &s;o haynous an offence, he had on|ly this to an&s;wer: It was vnnece&s;sarye to name &s;uch a &s;inne, becau&s;e he thought no childe &s;o vnnaturall: or if there were, he vtterly di&s;liked that either the name of &s;o vile a per&s;on, or the nature of his crime, should to po&s;teritie be re|membred. From whence, diuers wi&s;e Magi&s;t|rates haue ob&s;erued, that &s;undrye capitall offen|dors, haue had their names ob&s;cured with their deathes. But &s;eeing this age (abounding in all iniquitie) affordeth more example of wilfull ly|bertie, than euer any other: I thinke it nece&s;sary all per&s;wa&s;ions and examples should be v&s;ed to per&s;wade to good and deterre from euill. Ther|fore
<PB REF="3"> haue I made bolde to imprinte this little Pamphlet, beeing a Students lamentation, that was borne, fo&s;tred, and hath &s;ometime beene a Prenti&s;e in this Citie, which I am per&s;vvaded in the zeale of his heart he vvrit, to vvinne all yong men from vvilfulnes to faithfull obedience, or|derly life, and gentle behauiour. To the vvell minded, he douteth not his good vvill vvilbe ac|ceptable: the other that are rude and incon&s;i|derate, he le&s;se regardeth, though he would wil|linglye lay dovvne his life to &s;ee them liue as be|&s;eemerh hone&s;t &s;eruants. His paines &amp; my expence are heere included: If it vvin any one to doe vvel our de&s;ire is &s;ati&s;|fyed.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Thine euer. W. B.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>A Students lamentation, that hath <HI>in London bene &s;ometime an Appren|ti&s;e:</HI> for the vnruly tumults, lately in that Citie hapning.</HEAD>
<P>_OH that my eyes were &s;pringes of teares, and my head a fountaine of water, that I might weepe &s;ufficiently for the offences com|mitted, by them to whome one parte of my deere&s;t loue is con&s;e|crated: I haue in my tytle &s;how|en the e&s;tate I liue in, and not beene a&s;hamed to manife&s;t what I haue beene, that is, an Apprenti&s;e of London, that famous Citie, the mother Citie of this royall Kingdome.</P>
<P>To which Citie <HI>&amp; patria &amp; parente,</HI> I am behold|ing, and therefore mo&s;t of all to it &amp; the inhabitants therein account my &s;elfe bound, being the fir&s;t place wherin I breathed, and learnt the duties of a childe, a &s;eruant and a &s;ubiect: Which duties, con&s;idering how &s;ome prenti&s;es of that Citie haue vtterly forgot, maketh me perforce to breake foorth into teares: and
<PB REF="4"> where I &s;triued to keepe&s;ilence, my &s;pirite with the Prophet <HI>Ieremies</HI> was vexed within me, and my &s;peech brake foorth like a flame of fire. And albeit I haue no eloquence to di&s;&s;wade from &s;edition, or per|&s;wade to obedience, yet will I trye what loue, &s;or|row and pitie can doe, which if they could worke as ea&s;ilye and earne&s;tly as they be in me exceeding, I &s;hould not dout to make all hone&s;t minded people to dete&s;t, not only the man of &s;edition, but euery cau&s;e that giueth light thereto.</P>
<P>But why talke I of the hone&s;t in this ca&s;e, when not the Heathen led by nature, the Iewe trayned by the commaundements of the lawe, the Chri&s;tian ex|erci&s;ed in the comfortes of the Go&s;pell, the Turke in|&s;tructed by the confu&s;ed Alcoron, but haue honored the magi&s;trate with aldutious reuerence, imbracing concorde as chiefe maintainer of euery well guided Common-wealth. Alas how vnworthie is he to car|ry the image of a man, that &s;eeing the hurt that fol|loweth &s;edition, and will yet endeuour him &s;elfe to di&s;turbe a peaceable E&s;tate? He that con&s;idereth how much blood mu&s;t needs be &s;hed, how many &s;hall help|le&s;lye be &s;laine, what &s;tore of hou&s;es &s;poyled, what multitudes of men vndone, how many wiues defi|led, virgins raui&s;hed in the fury of &s;edition: but wold dete&s;t the Author of it, were it his naturall &s;onne? He that bethinketh of the end of all rebellions, when af|ter bloody violence, the &s;treets &amp; fieldes lye &s;cattered here legs, there heads, the&s;e deadly wounded, tho&s;e
<PB REF="4" MS="y"> vtterly dead: is it po&s;&s;ible that he can &s;o ca&s;t off huma|nitie, that he had not rather dye him&s;elfe, then liue to &s;ee &s;o many mi&s;eries? Do wee puni&s;h a fellon with death, not &s;pare a raui&s;her, a man&s;leaer or a murde|rer, and &s;hall we not more vehemently pro&s;ecute law again&s;t a &s;ower of &s;edition, a beginner of in&s;urrecti|ons, a ringleader to rebellious actions? whenby his meanes all fellons, raui&s;hers, man&s;lears or murde|rers, &s;hall haue libertie to &s;teale, defloure, kill, mur|der, no man re&s;i&s;ting, no lawe reproouing? But it may (by &s;ome) be here obiected, &s;edition and rebelli|on are vnfit tearmes to be v&s;ed in the ca&s;e I am now to handle: for the Prenti&s;es of London had no &s;editi|ous purpo&s;e, no intention of open rebellion. Truely I per&s;wade me, a headlong wilfulnes continued by cu&s;tome of abu&s;ed libertie, gaue fir&s;t fyre to this vnad|ui&s;ed flame: but he that &s;hall dout, that a mo&s;t treche|rous re&s;olution, and dangerous purpo&s;e followed, &s;hall make que&s;tion at a mo&s;t apparant truthe. For was it not cleerely prooued by the confe&s;&s;ion of their owne mouthes, that they intended to enter Tower &s;treete, rifle certaine hou&s;es, where powder, muniti|on and weapons were in greate aboundance? did they not &s;catter Libels, apoint a meeting place, there had they not many conferences? from thence made they not head to Tower hill, where (as likewi&s;e be|fore in More fieldes, by hone&s;t Prent&s;es their intent being opened) they were preuented of entring Tow|er &s;treete, and performing their purpo&s;e of entring to
<PB REF="5"> the &s;tore-hou&s;es of munition? Got not they fir&s;t a pi|per, then a trumpetter? re&s;i&s;ted not they the officers a long while with &s;tones? contemnd they not her Maie&s;ties proclamation, by which they were three times charged to auoyd: Haue not &s;ince been more Libels &s;cattered, prouoking her Maie&s;tie to iu&s;tice, when they &s;hould humblie haue &s;ought mercie? O let me be&s;eech all faithfull &s;ubiectes to amend the&s;e cour&s;es by the example of the offenders ouer &s;ight, who indeed were not all Prenti&s;es, but <HI>Grant</HI> that needs would be the Captaine, was a very idle mak|&s;hift: of which too many frequent peopled places: Neither ought it to be concealed, but to all England made manife&s;t, that albeit a number of careles boyes (&s;et on by euill di&s;po&s;ed per&s;ons) attempted the&s;e thinges: yet the better &s;orte of Prenti&s;es, yea and the greater &s;orte, neuer &s;tird in the&s;e haynous acti|ons, but as faithfull &s;ubiectes in euery quarter of the Citie di&s;couered the offenders: and before the &s;eate of iudgement, tho&s;e good Prenti&s;es gaue euidence a|gain&s;t the euill, wherein they di&s;charged that dutie, which both the lawe of God and cu&s;tome of all nati|ons commaundeth and commendeth.</P>
<P>How full is the &s;cripture of commaundement and example that &s;ubiectes &s;hould obay authority? Was not <HI>Miriam</HI> &s;troken with Lepro&s;ie for murmuring a|gain&s;t <HI>Mo&s;es? Corah, Dathan,</HI> &amp; their companie &s;wal|lowed quicke for their rebellion? did not <HI>Ab&s;alom</HI> pe|ri&s;h in the prime of his yeares? <HI>Sheba</HI> in the greate&s;t
<PB REF="5" MS="y"> of his &s;trength, for their rebellion. Did not <HI>Shimei</HI> fall in old age di&s;honorably euen for reuiling the ma|ie&s;trate when he was yong? Doth not Chri&s;t and his apo&s;tles warn vs to be &s;ubiect to the higher pow|ers euen for con&s;cience &s;ake knowing that the &s;word is not borne in vaine? yea whether it be to the King, or tho&s;e in authority vnder him: and &s;hall boies, &s;hall &s;eruants, that are &s;ubiected vnder meane &s;ubiectes pre&s;ume again&s;t the higher powers, be law-makers that know not law, be in&s;titutors of orders, and will not them&s;elues be ordered: No God forbid that euer that confu&s;ion &s;hould come among vs.</P>
<P>To &s;hew examples forraine what hurt hath come by &s;edition, and what mi&s;ery hath faln the &s;editious, needes not greatly? &s;eeing our owne Chronicles are full: yet for decorum &s;ake I will induce &s;om. <HI>Hieru|&s;alem</HI> the beauty of the world be&s;ieged by the <HI>Ro|mans,</HI> felt more mi&s;ery within by ciuill &s;edition, than vexation without by the co~mon enemy, their &s;tore hou&s;es were fixed, famine followed, the mother eate her child: the &s;editious entred hou&s;es, where they found meate they beat them, where none they beate them, &s;aying to the one they had and hid it, to the o|ther they were worthy of &s;tripes for that they gaue it not vna&s;kt. La&s;tly that famous City came to helple&s;&s;e de&s;olation, &s;edition beeing the onely meane of her de&s;truction. Did not &s;edition ouerthrow <HI>A|thens, Corinth, Lacedaemon, Thaebes</HI> and made all <HI>Greece</HI> &s;ubiect to the <HI>Romaines?</HI> was not <HI>Rome</HI> it
<PB REF="6" MS="y"> &s;elfe euen ruyned, and the whole world pe&s;tred with the factions of <HI>Silla</HI> and <HI>Marius, Ca&s;ar, Pompey</HI> and &s;uch like? In later yeares, hath not the greater part of Chri&s;tendome, as <HI>Con&s;tantinople,</HI> all <HI>Greece,</HI> the middle earth Ilands, and &s;undry other Chri&s;tian Kingdomes been brought to Turki&s;h &s;lauery, onely by &s;edition? Did not <HI>Ce&s;ar</HI> fir&s;t conquer Engla~d fur|thered by &s;edition? did not <HI>Canutus</HI> enter England, ayded by &s;edition? O cruell &s;edition, O venemous hatred, O vnluckie debate, O pernitious di&s;&s;ention, O &s;piteful rancour, O blind and euer hurtfull enuie, O &s;eldome well ending malice: why do&s;t thou in one houre marre more than in an hundred yeres can be re&s;tored? What folly, what madnes is this, to make a hole in the &s;hip thou &s;ayle&s;t?</P>
<P>For the &s;editious them&s;elues: how mi&s;erably pe|ri&s;hed <HI>Eleazar, Iehochanan</HI> and <HI>Schimeon</HI> in <HI>Ieru&s;a|lem?</HI> In <HI>Rome</HI> howended <HI>Catiline?</HI> how <HI>Pompey</HI> and <HI>Ca&s;ar</HI> after all their factions? In <HI>Greeces</HI> an|cient gouerment, what end had <HI>Themi&s;tocles, Nici|as, Alcibiades,</HI> and others? In <HI>Greeces</HI> latter gouern|ment, what end had the factious States again&s;t their Emperour <HI>Con&s;tantine</HI> the la&s;t? Haue not all the&s;e peri&s;hed, being otherwi&s;e famous Captaines, Princely and Nobly borne, and &s;hall vulgar peo|ple, nay incon&s;iderate boyes haue any hope to pro&s;|per in tumultuous riots? No a&s;&s;uredly, for as the great e&s;cape not, the ba&s;er cannot choo&s;e but peri&s;h. Of Iacke Straw, Will Waw, Wat Tiler, Tom
<PB REF="6"> Miller, Hob Carter and a number more &s;uch &s;editi|ous inferiour ringleaders to &s;editions and con&s;pira|cies mo&s;t notable, what hath been the end? Mi&s;ery, de&s;truction, and &s;hame. All the&s;e at the beginning would be Reformers, &amp; wrongs for&s;ooth they went about to right: but when they had got head, what wrong did they not count right? &s;ought they not to roote out Learning? drew they not hone&s;t Citizens to death? &s;lew they not noble Councellors? Put they not the royall per&s;on of the King oft times in feare and ieopardie? made they not euen this Citie Lon|don a &s;hambles, a place of horror, yea, almo&s;t of de|&s;olation? Is there anie in England, that hath not heard of Palme &s;unday field, Blacke Heath field, and manie other? how manie widowes made they? how manie fatherle&s;&s;e children? Both the&s;e begin|ning by &s;uch deformed Reformers. O hatefull ambi|tion, euen of folly it &s;elfe to bee derided: when the &s;choller &s;hall attempt to correct his ma&s;ter, the childe the father.</P>
<P>But how euer I greeue on the one &s;ide at the pre|&s;uming folly of &s;uch witle&s;&s;e Prenti&s;es, as haue of|fended: I reioyce manie times more at the faithful|nes of tho&s;e Prenti&s;es that reuealed their offence. For what greater proofe of their fidelitie could bee had, than in a ca&s;e &s;o dangerous as this was like to prooue, to deale &s;o faithully in the di&s;clo&s;ing thereof? What hope &s;hall all good men haue of the&s;e young men (if Straungers &s;hould inuade) that haue not
<PB REF="7"> &s;pared their owne companions, in a ca&s;e of in&s;urrec|tion. Surely, by them hath London no little cau&s;e of ioy, That her Maie&s;tie and the Nobilitie are a&s;|&s;ured, there are in her &s;uch Prenti&s;es, as preferre no familiaritie before faithfull dutie, accounting tho&s;e frends foes, that &s;eeke to di&s;turbe Englands peace. Bee ioyfull, you re&s;olute and well gouerned young men, whom her Maie&s;tie taketh for faithfull Sub|iects and dutifull Prentices: and hath indeede &s;o found you. Let them be &s;orrie that haue de&s;erued &s;or|row. Bee you &s;orrie onely for this, that the&s;e offen|ders haue cau&s;ed her Maie&s;ty to &s;triue with hir mer|cifull nature, and commit them to Iu&s;tice.</P>
<P>O con&s;ider yong men, how it greeueth her, and forget not what would haue befalne you, though you thinke little of &s;uch a mi&s;chiefe? There are in England hollow harted traitors that wayt &s;uch times as the&s;e, and would gladly &s;et in foote to &s;ee your parents murdered, your &s;i&s;ters raui&s;hed, your owne throats cut, and think you heare England in her owne per&s;on, thus lamenting for <HI>Londons</HI> yong mens di&s;obedience. Why doo yee deuide your &s;elues within me? are yee not all mine? Shall the hand teare out the eye, the foote put the neck in ieopardy? you are my weapons, will yee fight again&s;t me? my &s;u&s;tentation, will yee fami&s;h me? part of my &s;trength will yee &s;triue to weaken mee. London is the beau|ty of my eye, the ancient honor of my &s;igniory, fa|mou&s;ed through all lands for plenty and peaceable
<PB REF="7"> gouernment: and will you &s;eeke to ruyne her good report by wilfull &s;tubberne&s;&s;e? Hath my &s;oueraigne mi&s;tre&s;&s;e, our careful Soueraigne, honored your Ci|tie &s;o often with her royall pre&s;ence, delights &s;he to be neare you euer? and haue you no delight but in di&s;turbing her? Remember your owne mothers, how tender they were ouer you in your infancie, not &s;uffering neighbours children nay not your owne brethren and &s;i&s;ters to abu&s;e you: and thinke you her &s;acred Maie&s;tie kind mother of all true Engli&s;h children, taketh your violence in good part? No, I a&s;&s;ure ye? your wilfull offending and ob&s;tinate con|tinuance in guilt, hath more greeued her Princely heart, than if an hoa&s;t of enemies had bent their po|wer to inuade my bo&s;ome. For her Excellencie may &s;ay (which I too certainly feele): No meruayle if Spaine (the common &s;courge of all Chri&s;tendome) attempt to di&s;turbe our peacefull gouernment, when our owne &s;ubiects (meanly conditioned, of low and inferiour calling) will pre&s;ume to a&s;&s;aile our Pre&s;i|dents, re&s;i&s;t their Gouernours, kindle a &s;edition in the heart of our Realme, euen in London: which we tender as the apple of our eye.</P>
<P>Thus might England (could &s;hee &s;peake) vtter her greefe. Be then a&s;hamed you neglectfulll yong men, I am a&s;hamed to call you Prenti&s;es: for how can I call you by that name which you de&s;pi&s;e. For Prenti&s;es indeed are tho&s;e, that bewrayed your pra|cti&s;es: &s;uch, as being &s;eruants know how to obay,
<PB REF="8"> that being ma&s;ters they may be obeyed: for it is as great prai&s;e for a &s;ubiect to obay dutifully, as a Go|uernour to rule well. Bethinke your &s;elues, you wylde youths, what feare through all England is &s;pred for your faults. How manie doubtfull parents in Shyres farre off from London tremble to heare the&s;e euill newes, lea&s;t their children &s;hould be guil|tie of this &s;ame tumultuous ryot: be re&s;olute to doo well (if there be anie among you doubtfull) and bee not di&s;couraged at the puni&s;hment of tho&s;e that haue de&s;eruedly &s;uffered: but be rather confirmed in well dooing. For as &s;weete flowers pro&s;per be&s;t when the Gardener hath ca&s;t foorth vnwhole&s;ome weedes, &s;o &s;hall you bee &s;ent-plea&s;ing Blo&s;&s;omes, when the&s;e corrupt ones are remooued from you. And remember here the law hath beene executed with all mercy and fauour: for tho&s;e that were fir&s;t puni&s;hed, the &s;hame was onely &s;eene, the correction not felt. Tho&s;e that had more capitally in ca&s;e of trea&s;on offended, their correction was with all pity, their members not di&s;tributed on gates but buryed in their graues. O neuer ending pitty of our royall Soueraigne: how often hath &s;he winked at great riots committed by the youth of this Citty, and now when their offence is proued rebellion by &s;tatute law, &s;he hath pitty that &s;he mu&s;t puni&s;h, and in their pu|ni&s;hment her royall pittie more appeareth, O you that are already criminate: humble your hearts be|fore the throne of heauen. Be a&s;hamed that you
<PB REF="8"> haue moued &s;o gracious a prince&s;&s;e to iu&s;t di&s;plea|&s;ure: and you vntoucht that are &s;tubberne hearted, learne to &s;ubmit. For onely &s;ubmition winneth mercy, wilfulnes ha&s;teth iudgement. If any treche|ous in&s;inuater goe about to intice you to in&s;urrecti|on: if any idle headed libeller &s;catter papers among&s;t you, winne neuer dying prai&s;e by detecting them, for vndoubtedly you &s;hall to God doo acceptable &s;er|uice, to her maie&s;tie the duties of faithfull &s;ubiects, of this Citty in your yong daies bee accounted pre&s;er|uers, and you &s;hall make all trechors afraide to re|ueale their &s;editious practi&s;es. As for you that are guilty, haue mercy on your owne &s;oules by confe&s;|&s;ing your &s;innes with heart &s;orrow, and make &s;ati&s;|faction by adui&s;ing other, lea&s;t they fall into like ca|lamity. Weep for your offences, and we will weepe with you: pray, and we will pray with you: that the example and &s;orrow of you and your other fellows, may terrifie: and intreate all &s;ubiects and &s;eruants, that they obaye her Maie&s;ties Proclamations in their mo&s;t headlong time of folly: for he that contem|neth authoritie, contemneth the ordinance of God: which who euer di&s;obeyeth, ha&s;teneth to him&s;elfe heauie and &s;odaine iudgement. Which God, though &s;ometime in his righteous vengeance, he &s;end iu&s;t warre to puni&s;h vniu&s;t people: yet neuer are &s;ub|iects counted Gods in&s;truments that lift their hands again&s;t their Superiours, as I haue alreadie proo|ued: For if <HI>Io&s;eph</HI> to <HI>Pharaoh, Dauid</HI> to per&s;ecuting
<PB REF="9"> <HI>Saul, Daniel</HI> to <HI>Nebuchadnezzar,</HI> our Sauiour to <HI>Tiberius Nero, Paul</HI> and the Apo&s;tles to vniu&s;t <HI>An|nas</HI> and the Romane Pre&s;idents, the Fathers of the Primitiue Church to tyrannous Tormentors, all who&s;e examples Chri&s;tians ought to follow. How vnworthie is he of a Chri&s;tians name, nay of a mans name, that again&s;t his naturall Souereigne, a mer|cifull a peace maintaining Prince&s;&s;e will offer to lift his hand? Looke into Fraunce, long troubled with ciuill warres: into the Low Countries, who&s;e earth hath manie yeares been drunke with blood. It was not thought at the beginning, this mi&s;erie would haue been. But now they are &s;o exerci&s;ed to di&s;&s;enti|on, that they haue no yere of re&s;t, but Warre like a Lion rageth, men of one Nation either deuouring o|ther. And if in Fraunce it is no &s;mall ob&s;eruaunce, that if their children on eeuenings meete, ca&s;ting them&s;elues into companies and fight, it is held with them for anominous pre&s;age of greater in&s;uing mi&s;|chiefe. What &s;hall be thought in London, when not children in &s;trength, though verie babes in wit, &s;hall meete, con&s;pire, complot again&s;t reuerent Magi&s;tra|cie. Well, Mercie hath taken Iu&s;tice by the hand, and they that compa&s;&s;ion cannot intreate, compul&s;i|on will inforce. Remember, remember your &s;elues, you yong men of London: is not libertie better than impri&s;onment: the fauour of her Maie&s;tie more plea&s;ing, than her heauie di&s;plea&s;ure? Remember all the in&s;olent follies &s;he hath graciou&s;ly forgiuen the
<PB REF="9"> Prenti&s;es of this Citie: remember your Parents, how glad they would bee of your wel dooing, how &s;orrowfull to heare of your owne &s;ought for de&s;truc|tion. And la&s;tly bethinke ye of what I fir&s;t vrgde: how manie &s;orrowes follow &s;edition, as murder, ma&s;&s;acring, rape, robberie, all outrage: the father wounding the &s;onne &s;prung from his owne &s;eede, the &s;onne murdring the father cau&s;e of his fir&s;t bee|ing. O imbrace peace, you that haue been borne in peace: and crie to God for peace on earth, with that diuine Poet,</P>
<Q>Nulla &s;alus bello, pacem te precimus omnes.</Q>
<P>Which God of his mercie &s;often the &s;tubborne harts of all the wilfull, confirme the better &s;ort in their o|bedience: ble&s;&s;e <HI>England</HI> from outward, but e&s;peci|ally from inward Enemies: encrea&s;e his Church, pre&s;erue our Souereigne (vnder God) chiefe cau&s;e of our peace and pro&s;peritie: and ha&s;ten their de&s;tructi|on that wi&s;h the contrary.</P>
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<HEAD>A breefe Admonition to tho&s;e idle per&s;ons liuing about London, who&s;e &s;loth makes them apt for any &s;inne: Beeing but certaine gathered notes from <HI>Grants</HI> example.</HEAD>
<P>YOU flumbring idle per&s;ons, who&s;e life about this Citie is vayner than a dreame: who&s;e dea|thes are very likely to be &s;hameful and de&s;perat: to you, to you (if you would heare) &s;hould be &s;aid, but your hearts are fatte as Brawne, &s;tony as flint, impenitrable as Adamant: therfore many woords needes not, or at lea&s;t boote not: yet &s;ome will I be|&s;towe, either to note your folly, or giue others war|ning by your fault.</P>
<P>The roote of all euil is idlenes, and idlenes is your only excerci&s;e, except vnlawfull gaming, an excerci&s;e woor&s;&s;e (if woor&s;&s;e may be) than idlenes it &s;elfe. For be&s;ides the damnable bla&s;phemy among you v&s;ed, beggery and want howerly awayteth yee, which you through impatience cannot bear, but following <HI>Iobs</HI> wiues wicked coun&s;aile, cur&s;&s;e God, and there|by &s;eeking others de&s;truction, ha&s;ten your owne dea|thes. Of you there are two &s;ortes, neither tollerable, but one e&s;pecially intollerable: The mo&s;te to be fauo|red of two bad, are tho&s;e who&s;e parents (by too much cockring) hindred their youth from any hone&s;t im|ployment, and now in age they thinke it &s;hame to learne. But the other [vyle&s;t of all vyle people] are
<PB REF="10"> tho&s;e that haue handy-crafts or other meanes to liue and yet dayly follow dicing hou&s;es, while their care|full wiues, weeping children, and hunger-bitten fa|milyes, &s;uffer heart &s;orrow for their lo&s;t time and loo&s;e expence. Saint <HI>Paul</HI> calleth &s;uch, infidels, how the Heathen haue puni&s;hed &s;uch, many &s;toryes te&s;tifye: Lord roote them from this Citie and Suburbs, and put in the Magi&s;trates heads to puni&s;h them with more and more &s;eueritie: For the&s;e and their compa|nions are cau&s;es of all mutinies: and it is miraculous they haue not long &s;ince wrought &s;ome great mi&s;|chiefe, &s;uch a malcontent was <HI>Grant,</HI> by loo&s;e life gro|wen to pouertie: and to rai&s;e his &s;tate, what cour&s;e takes he, but to be a ring-leader of rebellion, and to intice yong men and Prenti&s;es to his faction. Well God hath cut him off, and will vndoutedly cut you all off that intend &s;o ill: therfore in a woord I intreat yee, that haue no &s;ciences to liue by, &s;erue honorably for your Prince and Country, and dye not infamou|&s;ly among your familiars. To the other I will v&s;e no intreatie, for that which wife and childrens teares cannot obtaine, onely authority mu&s;t compell. Which God &s;trengthen, for the conuer&s;ation or confu&s;ion of the euill.</P>
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