TEE
EPISTLE
Dedicatory
.
To
Him
,
that
(
in
the
despite
and
neuer-dying-dishonour
of
all
empty
sisted
Mecaen-Asses
)
is
the
Gratious
,
munificent
,
and
golden
.
Rewarder
of
Rimes
:
singular
pay-maister
of
Songes
and
Sonnets
:
Vnsquint-eyde
Surueyor
of
Heroicall
Poems
:
Chiefe
Rent-gatherer
of
Poets
and
Musitians
:
And
the
most
valiant
Confounder
of
their
desperate
debts
.
And
to
the
comfort
of
all
honest
Christians
)
The
now-onely-onely-Supper-maker
to
Enghles
&
Plaiers-Boyes
,
Syr
Nicolas
Nemo
,
alias
Nobody
.
SHall
I
creepe
(
like
a
drownde
Ratte
)
into
thy
warme
bosome
,
(
my
Benefique
Patron
!
)
with
a
piece
of
some
olde
mustie
Sentence
in
my
mouth
,
stolne
out
of
Lycosthenes
Apothegmes
,
and
so
accost
thee
?
Out
vpon
t
!
the
fashion
of
such
Dedications
is
more
stale
than
kissing
.
No
,
no
,
suffer
me
(
good
Nobody
)
to
diue
(
like
a
White-Friars
Puncke
)
into
thy
familiar
&
solid
acquaintance
at
the
first
dash
:
And
in
stead
of
Worshipfull
Syr
,
come
vpon
thee
with
honest
Iew
,
how
doest
?
Wonder
not
that
out
of
the
whole
barrell
of
pickeld
Pat●ons
,
I
haue
onely
made
choice
of
thee
,
for
I
loue
none
really
,
but
thee
and
my selfe
,
for
vs
two
do
I
only
care
,
and
therefore
I
coniure
thee
,
let
the
payment
of
thine
affection
be
reciprocall
.
They
are
Rimes
that
I
have
boyld
in
my
leaden
Inckpot
,
for
thine
owne
eating
:
And
now
(
rarest
Nobody
)
taste
the
reason
why
they
are
serued
vp
to
thee
(
in
the
taile
of
the
Plague
)
like
Caveare
,
or
a
dish
of
Anchoues
after
supper
.
Know
then
(
Monnsier
verse-gilder
)
that
I
haue
failed
(
during
this
storme
of
the
Pestilence
)
round
about
the
vast
Iland
of
the
whole
world
,
which
when
I
found
to
be
made
like
a
foote-ball
,
the
best
thing
in
it
,
being
but
a
bladder
of
mans
life
,
(
lost
with
a
litle
pricke
)
I
tooke
vp
my
foote
and
spurnd
at
it
,
bicause
I
haue
heard
that
none
but
fooles
make
account
of
the
world
.
But
mistake
me
not
,
(
thou
Spur-royall
of
the
Muses
!
)
for
it
was
neither
in
Sir
Francis
Drakes
nor
in
Candishes
voyage
,
that
I
swom
through
so
much
salt-water
:
But
onely
with
two
honest
Card-makers
Peter
Plamius
and
Gerard
Mercator
)
who
in
their
vniuersall
Maps
,
(
as
in
a
Barbers
Looking-glasse
,
where
a
nomber
of
most
villanous
vngodly
faces
are
seene
,
in
a
yeare
,
and
especially
now
at
Christmas
)
did
(
like
Country-fellowes
,
that
is
to
say
very
plainly
)
and
in
a
shorter
time
,
than
a
Sculler
can
rowe
from
Queene-hyue
to
Wapping
,
make
a
braue
discouery
vnto
me
,
as
well
of
all
the
old
raine-beaten
,
as
of
the
spicke
and
span
new-found
worlds
,
with
euery
particular
Kingdome
,
Dukedome
,
and
Popedome
in
their
liuely
cullors
,
so
that
I
knew
Constantinople
as
perfectly
,
as
Iobbin
,
the
Mault-mans
horse
of
Enfield
knowes
the
way
to
London
:
and
could
haue
gone
to
the
great
Turkes
Serraglio
(
where
he
keepes
all
his
wenches
)
as
tollerably
and
farre
more
welcome
,
than
if
I
had
beene
one
of
his
Eunuches
.
Prester
Iohn
,
and
the
Sophy
,
were
neuer
out
of
mine
eye
,
(
yet
my
sight
was
not
a
pin
the
worse
)
.
The
Soldan
of
Egipt
I
had
with
a
wet
finger
:
from
whence
,
I
trauailed
as
boldly
to
the
Courts
of
all
the
Kings
in
Christendome
,
as
if
I
had
bin
an
Embassadour
)
his
pomp
only
excepted
.
)
Strange
fashions
did
I
pick
(
like
wormes
)
out
of
the
fingers
of
euery
Nation
,
a
number
of
phantastick
Popin-Iayes
and
Apes
(
with
faces
like
men
)
itching
till
they
had
got
them
.
And
(
besides
fashions
)
many
wonder●
wo●●hy
to
be
hung
vp
(
like
Shields
with
senseles
,
bald
,
impraesaes
)
in
the
white
paper-gallery
of
a
large
Chronicle
.
But
this
made
me
fret
out
worse
than
gumd
Taffaty
,
that
neither
in
any
one
of
those
Kingdomes
,
(
no
nor
yet
within
the
walls
and
water-works
of
mine
own
country
)
could
I
either
find
or
heare
,
(
for
I
gaue
a
Crier
a
King-Harry-groate
to
make
an
oyes
)
no
nor
read
of
any
man
,
woman
or
child
,
left
so
wel
by
their
friends
,
or
that
caryed
such
an
honest
mind
to
the
Common-wealth
of
the
Castalians
,
as
to
keepe
open-house
for
the
seauen
poore
Liberall
Sciences
:
nor
once
(
which
euen
the
rich
cubs
and
fox-furd
curmudgens
do
)
make
them
good
cheere
so
much
as
at
Christmas
,
when
euery
cobler
has
licence
(
vnder
the
broad
Seale
of
Hospitality
)
to
sit
cheeke
by
iowle
at
the
table
of
a
very
Aldermans
deputy
.
What
woodcocks
then
are
these
seauen
wise
maisters
to
answere
to
that
worme-eaten
name
of
Liberall
,
seeing
it
has
vndone
them
?
It
's
a
name
of
the
old
fashion
:
It
came
vp
with
the
old
Religion
,
and
went
down
with
the
new
.
Liberality
has
bin
a
Gentleman
of
a
good
house
,
and
an
ancient
house
,
but
now
that
old
house
(
like
the
Players
old
Hall
at
Dowgate
)
is
falne
to
decay
,
and
to
repaire
it
,
requires
too
much
cost
.
My
seauen
lattin-sellers
,
haue
bin
liberall
so
long
to
others
,
that
now
they
haue
not
a
rag
(
or
almost
nothing
but
rags
)
left
for
themselues
:
Yea
and
into
such
pitifull
predicaments
are
they
fallen
,
that
most
of
our
Gentry
(
besides
the
Punyes
of
Innes
of
Court
and
Chancery
)
takes
them
for
the
Seauen
Deadly
Sinnes
,
and
hate
him
worse
than
they
hate
whores
.
How
much
happier
had
it
bin
for
them
,
to
haue
changed
their
copies
,
&
tron
Sciences
bin
bound
to
good
Occupations
,
considering
that
one
London-occupier
(
dealing
vprightly
with
all
men
)
puts
vp
more
in
a
weeke
,
than
seuen
Bachilers
of
Art
(
that
euery
day
goe
barely
a
wooing
to
them
)
do
in
a
yeare
.
Hath
not
the
Plague
(
incomparable
Nobody
:
and
therefore
incomparable
,
bicause
with
an
Aeneas-like
glory
,
thou
hast
redeemed
the
golden-tree
of
Poesie
,
euen
out
of
the
hellish
scorne
,
that
this
worlde
(
out
of
her
Luciferan
pride
)
hopes
to
dam
it
with
)
hath
it
not
I
say
done
all
men
knights
seruice
in
working
the
downfal
of
our
greatest
&
greediest
beggers
?
Dieite
Io
Paean
,
You
yong
Sophisticall
Fry
of
the
Vniuersities
!
breake
Priscians
pate
(
if
hee
crosse
you
)
for
ioy
:
for
had
not
the
Plague
stuck
to
you
in
this
case
,
fixe
of
your
seuen
Academicall
sweet-hearts
(
if
I
saide
all
seuen
I
should
not
lye
vpon
them
)
had
long
ere
this
(
but
that
some
Doctors
withstood
it
)
bene
begd
,
(
not
for
Wards
,
yet
some
of
them
haue
lodged
I
can
tell
you
in
the
knights
Warde
)
but
for
meere
Stones
,
and
Chesters
,
Fooles
,
Fooles
,
and
Iesters
,
because
whereas
some
of
their
Chymicall
&
Alchymicall
raw
disciples
haue
learnt
(
at
their
hands
)
to
distill
gold
and
siluer
out
of
very
Tauerne-bushes
,
old
greazy
knaues
of
Diamonds
,
the
dust
of
bowling
Allyes
,
yea
&
like
Aesops
Gallus
Gallinaceus
,
to
scrape
precious
stones
euen
out
of
dung-hils
,
yet
they
themselues
(
poore
harletries
)
had
neuer
the
grace
,
nor
the
face
,
to
cary
one
peny
in
their
own
purses
.
But
to
speak
truth
(
my
noble
curer
of
the
poeticall
madnesse
for
nothing
)
where
should
they
haue
it
?
Let
them
be
sent
into
the
courts
of
Princes
,
there
they
are
so
lordly
,
that
(
vnles
they
were
bigger
&
taller
of
their
hands
,
than
so
many
of
the
Guard
)
euery
one
lookes
ouer
them
,
of
it
they
giue
him
any
thing
,
it
's
nothing
but
good
lookes
.
As
for
the
Citie
,
that
s
so
full
of
Crafts-men
,
there
is
no
dealing
with
their
misteries
:
the
nine
Muses
stand
in
a
brown
study
,
when
they
come
within
their
liberties
,
like
so
many
mad
wenches
taken
in
a
watch
&
broght
before
a
bench
of
Brown
bils
.
O
Ciues
,
Ciues
!
quaerenda
pecunia
primum
!
Virtus
post
Nummos
:
First
open
your
purses
,
and
then
be
vertuous
,
part
not
with
a
peny
:
the
rich
mizers
holde
their
owne
by
this
Canon
lawe
.
And
for
those
(
whom
in
English
we
call
poore
snakes
)
Alas
!
they
are
barde
(
by
the
Statute
against
Beggers
)
from
giuing
a
dandiprat
or
a
Bawbee
.
In
the
Campe
there
is
nothing
to
be
had
but
blowes
and
Prouant
:
for
souldiers
had
neuer
worse
doings
:
My
sweet
Captain
,
bestowes
his
pipe
of
rich
Trynidado
(
taking
the
Muses
for
Irish
Chimny-sweepers
)
and
that
s
his
Talent
.
Being
in
this
melancholy
contemplation
,
and
hauing
wept
a
whole
ynck-horne
full
of
Verses
in
bewailing
the
miseries
of
the
time
,
on
the
suddaine
I
started
vp
:
with
my
teeth
bit
my
writings
,
because
I
would
eate
my
words
:
condemnd
my
pen-knife
to
the
cutting
of
powder-beefe
and
brewes
:
my
paper
to
the
drying
and
inflaming
of
Tobacco
:
and
my
Retirements
to
a
more
Gentleman-like
recreation
,
viz.
Duke
Humphres
walke
in
Powles
:
swearing
fiue
or
sixe
poeticall
furious
oathes
,
that
the
Goose-quill
should
neuer
more
gull
me
,
to
make
me
shoote
paper-bullets
into
any
Stationers
shop
,
or
to
serue
vnder
the
weather-beaten
colours
of
Apollo
,
seeing
his
pay
was
no
better
.
Yet
remembring
what
a
notable
good
fellow
thou
wert
:
the
onely
Atlas
that
supports
the
Olympian
honour
of
learning
:
and
(
out
of
thy
horne
of
Abundance
)
a
continuall
Benefactor
to
all
Schollers
(
Thou
matchlesse
Nobody
!
)
I
set
vp
my
rest
,
and
vowde
to
consecrate
all
my
blotting-papers
onely
to
thee
:
And
not
content
to
dignifie
thee
with
that
loue
and
honor
of
my selfe
:
I
sommond
all
the
Rymesters
,
Play-patchers
,
Iig-makers
,
Ballad-mongers
,
&
Pamphlet-stitchers
(
being
the
yeomanry
of
the
Company
)
together
with
all
those
whom
Theocrytus
calls
the
Muses
Byrds
(
being
the
Maisters
and
head-Wardens
)
and
before
them
all
made
an
●ncomiasticall
Oration
in
praise
of
Nobody
,
(
scilicet
your
proper
selfe
)
pronouncing
them
Asses
,
and
threatning
to
haue
them
prest
to
serue
at
sea
in
the
ship
of
Fooles
,
if
euer
hereafter
,
they
taught
their
lynes
(
like
water-Spaniels
)
to
fetch
any
thing
that
were
throwne
out
for
them
,
or
to
diue
into
the
vnworthy
commendations
of
Lucius
Apuleius
,
or
any
Golden-Asle
of
them
all
,
being
for
their
paines
clapt
only
on
the
shoulder
,
and
sent
away
dropping
,
when
as
thy
leatherne
bagges
stand
more
open
than
Seacoale
sackes
more
bounteously
to
reward
them
.
I
had
no
sooner
cut
out
thy
vertues
in
these
large
cantles
,
but
all
the
Synagogue
of
Scribes
gaue
a
Pla●dite
,
crying
out
Viua
voce
,
with
one
loud
throat
,
that
All
their
verses
should
henceforth
haue
more
feete
,
and
take
longer
strides
than
if
they
went
vpon
stilttes
,
onely
to
carry
thy
glorious
praises
ouer
the
earth
:
And
that
none
(
but
Nobody
)
should
licke
the
fat
of
their
Inuentions
:
that
Dukes
,
Earles
,
Lordes
and
Ladies
,
should
haue
their
Il-liberal
names
torn
out
of
those
bookes
whose
Authors
they
sent
away
with
a
Flea
in
their
eare
,
And
the
stile
of
Nobody
in
Capitall
Romane
Letters
,
brauely
Printed
in
their
places
.
Herevpon
crowding
their
heads
together
,
and
amongst
themselues
canuasing
more
&
more
thy
inexplicable
worth
,
All
of
them
(
as
inspirde
)
burst
suddenly
forth
,
and
sung
extemporall
Odes
in
thine
honor
,
&
Palynodes
in
recantation
of
all
former
good
opinions
held
of
niggardly
patrons
:
One
of
them
magnifying
thee
,
for
that
in
this
pestiferous
shipwrack
of
Londoners
,
when
the
Pilot
,
Boteswaines
,
Maister
and
Maisters-mates
,
with
all
the
chiefe
Mariners
that
had
charge
in
this
goodly
Argozy
of
gouernment
,
leapt
from
the
sterne
,
strooke
all
the
sailes
from
the
maine
yard
to
the
mizzen
;
neuer
lookt
to
the
Compasse
,
neuer
fownded
in
places
of
danger
,
nor
so
much
as
put
out
their
Close-fights
,
when
they
saw
a
most
cruel
man
of
warre
pursue
them
,
but
suffred
all
to
sinke
or
swim
,
crying
out
onely
,
Put
your
trust
in
God
my
Bullies
,
&
not
in
vs
,
whilst
they
either
hid
them selues
vnder
hatches
,
or
else
scrambled
to
shoare
in
Cock-boats
:
yet
thou
(
vndanted
Nobody
)
then
,
euen
then
,
didst
stand
stoutly
to
thy
tackling
,
step
coragiously
to
the
helme
,
and
manfully
runne
vp
&
downe
,
encouraging
those
(
with
comfortable
words
)
whose
hearts
laie
coldly
in
their
bellies
.
Another
lifted
thee
vp
aboue
the
third
Heauen
,
for
playing
the
Constable
part
so
rarely
:
And
(
not
as
your
common
Constables
,
charging
poore
sick
wretches
,
that
had
neither
meate
nor
mony
,
in
the
kings
name
to
keepe
their
houses
,
that
s
to
say
,
to
famish
&
die
:
But
discharging
whole
baskets
full
of
victualls
(
like
vollies
of
shot
)
in
at
their
windowes
:
thou
,
onely
thou
(
most
charitable
Nobody
,
madest
them
as
fat
as
butter
,
&
preseruedst
their
liues
.
A
third
extold
thy
martiall
discipline
,
in
appointing
Ambushes
of
Surgeons
and
Apothecaries
,
to
lye
close
in
euery
ward
,
of
purpose
to
cut
of
any
conuoy
that
broght
the
plague
succor
.
A
fourth
swore
at
the
next
Impression
of
the
Chronicles
,
to
haue
thy
name
,
with
the
yeare
of
our
Lord
&
certain
Hexameter
verses
under-neath
)
all
in
great
golden
letters
,
wherin
thy
Fame
should
be
consecrated
to
eternall
memory
,
for
carefully
purchasing
conuenient
plots
of
ground
,
onlie
for
Burialls
(
and
those
out
of
the
Citie
too
,
as
they
did
in
Ierusalem
)
to
the
intent
,
that
threescore
(
contrary
to
an
Act
of
common
Councell
against
In-mates
might
not
be
pestred
together
,
in
one
litle
hole
,
where
they
lie
and
rot
:
but
that
a
poore
man
might
for
his
mony
haue
elbow-roome
,
&
not
haue
his
guts
thrust
out
to
be
eaten
vp
with
paltry
worms
:
least
when
in
hot
and
drie
Sommers
(
that
are
yet
not
dreamed
on
)
those
mustie
bodies
putrifying
,
the
inavoydable
stench
of
their
strong
breath
be
smelt
out
by
the
Sun
,
and
then
there
's
new
worke
for
Clarkes
and
Sextons
.
Thus
had
euery
one
a
flirt
at
thy
praises
:
if
thou
hadst
bene
begde
to
haue
plaid
an
Anatomy
in
Barber-surgions
Hall
,
thy
good
parts
could
not
haue
bene
more
curiosly
ript
vp
:
they
diu'de
into
the
very
bowels
of
thy
hartie
commendations
.
So
that
I
,
that
(
like
a
Match
)
scarce
gaue
fire
before
,
to
the
dankish
powder
of
their
apprehensions
,
was
now
burnt
vp
my self
,
in
the
flames
of
a
more
ardent
affection
towards
thee
,
kindled
by
them
.
For
presently
the
court
brake
vp
,
and
(
without
a
quarter-dinner
)
all
parted
:
their
heads
being
great
with
childe
,
and
aking
very
pittifully
,
till
they
were
deliuered
of
Hymnes
,
Hexasticons
,
Paeans
,
and
such
other
Panegyricall
stuffe
,
which
euery
one
thought
7.
yeare
till
he
had
brought
forth
,
to
testifie
the
loue
that
he
bore
to
Nobody
:
In
aduancement
of
whose
honour
(
and
this
was
sworne
vpon
a
pen
&
ynck-horne
in
stead
of
a
sword
,
yet
they
al
write
Tam
marti
quàm
mercurio
,
but
how
lawfully
let
the
Heralds
haue
an
eye
too
t
)
they
vowd
&
swore
very
terribly
,
to
sacrifice
the
very
liues
of
their
inuention
;
And
when
they
wanted
ynck
(
as
many
of
them
do
wanting
mony
)
or
had
no
more
(
like
a
Chancery-man
)
but
one
pen
in
all
the
world
,
parcell
of
their
oath
was
,
to
write
with
their
blood
and
a
broome-stick
before
they
would
sit
idle
.
Accept
therefore
(
for
hansell-sake
)
these
curtall
Rymes
of
ours
(
thou
Capon-feaster
of
schollers
:
)
I
call
them
News
from
Graues-end
:
Be
it
knowne
vnto
thy
Non-residence
,
that
I
come
not
neare
that
Graues-end
(
which
takes
his
beginning
in
Kent
)
by
twenty
miles
at
least
;
but
the
end
of
those
Graues
do
I
shoote
at
,
which
were
cast
vp
here
in
London
,
to
stand
as
land-marks
for
euery
parish
,
to
teach
them
how
far
they
were
to
goe
:
laying
down
(
so
wel
as
I
can
)
the
maner
how
death
&
his
army
of
pestilent
Archers
,
entred
the
field
,
and
how
euery
arrow
that
they
drew
,
did
almost
cleaue
a
heart
in
sunder
.
Reade
ouer
but
one
leafe
(
deare
Nobody
)
&
thou
purst
vpon
me
an
armor
of
proofe
against
the
rankling
teeth
of
those
mad
dogs
(
cald
Booke-biters
)
that
run
barking
vp
and
downe
Powles
Church-yard
,
and
bite
the
Muses
by
the
shinnes
Commend
thou
my
labours
,
and
I
will
labour
onely
to
commend
thee
:
for
thy
humor
being
pleasd
,
all
the
mewing
Critists
in
the
world
shall
not
fright
me
.
I
know
the
Stationers
will
wish
me
and
my
papers
burnt
(
like
hereticks
)
at
the
Crosse
,
if
thou
doest
(
now
)
but
enter
into
their
Shops
by
my
meanes
:
It
would
fret
their
hearts
to
see
thee
at
their
Stalls
reading
my
Newes
.
Yet
therein
they
deale
doubly
,
and
like
notable
dissemblers
,
for
all
the
time
of
this
Plaguy
Allarum
,
they
marcht
only
vnder
thy
cullors
:
desirde
none
but
thy
company
▪
none
but
thy
selle
wert
welcome
to
them
:
none
but
Nobody
(
as
they
all
cride
out
the
thine
immortall
commendatious
)
bought
bookes
of
them
:
Nobody
was
their
best
,
and
most
bounteous
customer
.
Fye
on
this
hollow-hearted
world
!
Do
they
shake
thee
off
now
?
Be
wise
,
and
come
not
neere
them
by
twelue-score
at
least
,
so
shalt
thou
not
neede
to
care
what
disgraces
they
shoote
at
thee
.
But
leauing
them
to
their
old
tune
,
of
What
new
Bookes
do
you
lack
?
prick
vp
thine
eares
like
a
March-Hare
(
at
the
sudden
cry
of
a
kennell
of
hounds
)
and
listen
what
newes
the
Post
that
s
come
from
Winchester
-
Terme
windes
out
of
his
horne
.
O
that
thou
hadst
taken
a
lease
there
(
happy
Nobody
)
but
for
one
moneth
,
the
place
had
(
for
thy
sake
)
bin
well
spoken
of
for
euer
.
Many
did
heartily
pray
(
especially
Watermen
,
and
Players
,
besides
the
Drawers
,
Tapsters
,
Butchers
,
and
Inholders
,
with
all
the
rest
of
the
hungry
Cominaltie
of
Westminster
)
for
thy
going
thither
.
Ten
thousand
in
London
swore
to
feast
their
neighbors
with
nothing
but
plum-porredge
,
and
mince-pyes
all
Christmas
,
(
that
now
for
anger
will
not
bestow
a
crust
on
a
begger
)
vpon
condition
that
all
the
Iudges
,
Sergeants
,
Barristers
,
and
Atturnies
,
had
not
set
a
foot
out
of
dores
,
but
that
thou
only
(
in
pomp
)
(
sauing
them
that
labour
)
hadst
rode
the
iourney
,
so
greedily
did
they
thirst
after
thy
preferment
.
For
hadst
thou
bin
there
,
those
black-buckrom
tragedies
had
neuer
bin
seene
,
that
there
haue
bin
acted
.
Alas
!
its
a
beastly
thing
to
report
.
But
(
truth
must
out
)
poore
dumb
Horses
were
made
meere
Iades
,
being
vsed
to
villanouslie
,
that
they
durst
neither
weihy
nor
wag
taile
.
And
though
the
riders
of
them
had
growne
neuer
so
chollerick
,
and
chaft
till
they
foamd
againe
,
an
Hostler
to
walke
them
was
not
to
be
had
for
loue
or
money
.
Neither
could
the
Geldings
(
euen
of
Gentlemen
)
get
leaue
(
for
all
they
swet
til
they
dropt
again
)
to
stand
as
they
had
wont
at
Rack
&
Manger
.
(
no
,
no
,
t
was
enough
for
their
maisters
to
haue
that
honor
)
but
now
(
a-against
all
equitie
)
were
they
cald
(
when
they
little
thought
of
any
such
matter
)
to
a
deere
reckoning
for
all
their
old
wilde-oates
.
A
conspiracy
there
was
amongst
all
the
Inkeepers
,
that
Iack
Straw
(
an
ancient
rebell
)
should
choak
al
the
horses
:
and
the
better
to
bring
this
to
passe
,
a
bottle
of
hay
was
sold
deerer
then
a
bottle
of
wine
at
London
.
A
trusse
cost
more
,
then
maister
Maiors
trusse
of
Forduch
,
with
the
sleeues
&
belly-piece
all
of
bare
Sattin
to
boote
:
Which
knauery
being
smelt
out
,
the
horsemen
grew
pollitick
,
&
neuer
sate
downe
to
dinner
,
but
their
Nags
were
still
at
their
elbowes
:
so
that
it
grew
to
be
as
ordinary
a
question
,
to
aske
,
What
shall
I
pay
for
a
Chamber
for
my selfe
and
my
Gelding
all
night
,
(
because
they
would
not
be
Iaded
any
more
)
as
in
other
countrey
townes
,
For
my
wife
and
my selfe
,
for
a
beast
and
a
man
were
entertained
both
alike
,
and
that
in
such
wonderful
sort
,
that
thei
le
speake
of
it
,
In
aeternam
rei
memoriam
.
For
most
of
their
roomes
were
fairely
built
(
out
of
the
ground
,
but
not
out
of
the
durt
)
like
Irish
Houels
,
hung
round
about
with
cobweb-lawne
very
richly
,
and
furnished
,
no
Aldermans
Parlor
in
London
like
them
:
for
here
s
your
bed
,
there
a
stable
,
and
that
a
hogsty
,
yet
so
artificially
contriu'd
,
that
they
stand
all
vnder
one
roofe
,
to
the
amazement
of
all
that
behold
them
.
But
what
a
childishnes
is
it
,
to
get
vp
thus
vpon
their
Hobby-horses
,
let
them
bite
a
the
bridle
,
whilst
we
haue
about
with
the
men
.
As
for
the
women
,
they
may
laugh
and
lye
downe
,
it
s
a
merry
world
with
them
,
but
some-body
payes
for
it
.
O
Winchester
!
much
mutton
hast
thou
to
answer
for
,
which
thou
hast
made
away
(
being
sluttishly
fryed
out
in
steakes
,
or
in
burnt
Carbonadoes
)
thy
maid-seruants
best
know
how
,
if
they
were
cald
to
an
account
.
It
was
happy
for
some
,
that
4.
of
the
Returnes
were
cut
off
,
for
if
they
had
held
together
,
many
a
one
had
neuer
returned
from
thence
his
owne
man
.
Oh
beware
!
your
Winchester-Goose
is
tenne
times
more
dangerous
to
surfet
vpon
,
than
your
S.
Nicholas
Shambles-Capon
.
You
talke
of
a
Plague
in
London
,
&
red
Crosses
set
vpon
dores
,
but
ten
plagues
cannot
melt
so
many
crosses
of
siluer
out
of
Lawyers
purses
,
as
the
Winchesterians
(
with
a
hey-pas
,
re-pas
)
iugled
out
of
theirs
to
put
into
their
owne
.
Patient
they
were
I
must
needes
confesse
,
for
they
would
pocket
vp
any
thing
,
came
it
neuer
so
wrongfully
,
insomuch
that
very
good
substantiall
householders
haue
oftentimes
gone
away
with
crackt
crownes
,
&
neuer
complaind
of
them
that
gaue
them
.
If
euer
mony
were
currant
(
à
currendo
,
of
running
away
)
now
was
the
time
,
it
ran
from
the
poore
clients
to
the
Atturneys
&
Clarks
of
bands
in
small
troopes
(
here
10
&
there
20
)
but
when
the
Leaguers
of
Winchester
cried
Charge
,
Charge
,
the
Lawyers
paid
for
t
,
they
went
to
the
pot
full
deerely
,
&
the
townesmen
still
caryed
away
all
the
noble
and
royall
victories
.
So
that
being
puft
vp
with
an
opinion
,
that
the
Siluer
Age
was
crept
into
the
world
againe
,
they
denyed
(
in
a
manner
)
the
Kings
Coyne
,
for
a
penny
was
no
money
with
them
.
Whensoeuer
there
shall
come
forth
a
Prest
for
Souldiers
,
thither
let
it
be
sent
,
for
by
all
the
opinion
of
the
best
Captaines
(
that
had
a
charge
there
,
and
haue
tryed
them
)
the
men
of
Winchester
are
the
onely
seruiceable
men
this
day
in
England
:
the
reason
is
,
they
care
no
more
to
venture
among
small
shots
,
than
to
be
at
the
discharging
of
so
many
Cannes
of
beere
:
Tush
,
us
their
desire
,
to
see
those
that
enter
vpon
them
,
to
come
off
soundly
,
that
when
they
are
gone
,
all
the
world
may
beare
witnes
they
came
to
their
cost
.
And
being
thus
(
night
and
day
)
imploid
,
and
continually
entring
into
Action
,
it
makes
them
haue
mightie
stomacks
,
so
that
they
are
able
to
soake
and
deuoure
all
that
come
in
their
way
:
A
Rapier
and
a
Cloake
haue
bin
eaten
vp
at
a
Supper
as
cleane
(
and
caryed
away
well
too
)
as
if
they
had
bin
but
two
Rabbet-suckers
.
A
Nag
serued
but
one
Seruing-man
to
a
breakefast
,
whilst
the
Saddle
and
Bridle
were
brewd
into
a
quart
of
strong
Beere
.
This
intollerable
destroying
of
victuals
being
lookt
into
,
the
Inhabitants
laid
their
heads
together
,
and
agreed
among
themselues
(
for
the
general
good
of
the
whole
Towne
)
to
make
it
a
towne
of
Garrison
.
And
seeing
the
desperate
Termers
,
that
stroue
in
lawe
together
,
in
such
a
pittifull
pickle
,
and
euery
day
so
durty
,
that
when
they
met
their
Councell
,
they
lookt
like
the
black
Guard
,
fighting
with
the
Innes
of
Court
,
that
therefore
all
the
Householders
should
turne
Turke
,
and
be
victuallers
to
the
Camp
.
By
this
meanes
hauing
the
lawe
in
their
owne
hands
,
they
rulde
the
roast
how
they
listed
:
insomuch
,
that
a
common
iugge
of
double
Beere
skornd
to
kisse
the
lips
of
a
Knight
vnder
a
groate
.
Sixe
howres
sleepe
could
not
be
bought
vnder
fiue
shillings
.
Yea
in
some
places
a
nights
lodging
was
dearer
than
the
hire
of
a
Curtizan
in
Venice
twice
so
long
.
And
(
hauing
learnd
the
tricks
of
London-Sextons
)
there
they
laid
foure
or
fiue
in
a
bed
,
as
here
,
those
other
knaues
of
Spades
thrust
nine
and
tenne
into
one
graue
.
Beds
keeping
such
a
iustling
of
one
another
in
euery
roome
,
that
in
the
day
time
the
lodgings
lookt
like
so
many
Vpholsters
Shops
,
and
in
the
night
time
like
the
Sauoy
,
or
S.
Thomas
Hospitall
.
At
which
,
if
any
guest
did
but
once
bite
his
lip
,
or
grumble
,
he
was
cashierd
the
company
for
a
mutinous
fellow
,
the
place
was
not
for
him
,
let
him
trudge
.
A
number
stood
with
Petitions
readie
to
giue
mony
for
the
reuersion
of
it
:
for
Winchester
now
durst
,
(
or
at
least
hopt
to
)
stand
vpon
prowd
termes
with
London
.
And
this
(
thou
beloued
of
all
men
)
is
the
very
pith
and
marrow
of
the
best
and
latest
Newes
(
except
the
vnmasking
of
certaine
Treasons
)
that
came
with
the
Post
from
Winchester
,
where
if
thou
hadst
hirde
a
Chamber
(
as
would
to
heauen
thou
hadst
)
thou
wouldst
neuer
haue
gone
to
any
Barbers
in
London
whilst
thou
hadst
liude
,
but
haue
bin
trimd
only
there
,
for
they
are
the
true
shauers
,
they
haue
the
right
Neapolitan
polling
.
To
whose
commendations
,
let
me
glew
this
piece
more
,
that
it
is
the
most
excellent
place
for
dispatching
of
old
suites
in
the
world
,
for
a
number
of
riding
suites
(
that
had
lyen
long
in
lauander
)
were
worne
out
there
,
only
with
seruing
amongst
the
hot
shots
,
that
marcht
there
vp
and
downe
:
let
Westminster
therefore
,
Temple-bar
,
and
Fleetestreete
,
drinke
off
this
draught
of
Rosa
solis
,
to
fetch
life
into
them
againe
,
after
their
so
often
swounding
,
that
those
few
Iurors
that
went
thither
(
if
any
did
goe
thither
)
haue
tane
an
oath
neuer
to
sit
at
Winchester-Ordinary
againe
,
if
they
can
choose
,
but
rather
to
breake
their
fasts
in
the
old
Abbey
behinde
Westminster
,
with
Pudding-Pyes
,
and
Furmenty
.
Deliuer
Copies
of
these
Newes
(
good
Nobody
)
to
none
of
thy
acquaintance
(
as
thou
tenderst
me
)
and
thou
shalt
commaund
any
seruice
at
my
hands
:
for
I
haue
an
intent
to
hire
three
or
foure
Ballad-makers
,
who
I
know
will
be
glad
for
sixe
pence
and
a
dinner
,
to
turne
all
this
limping
Prose
into
more
perfectly-halting
Verse
,
that
it
shall
doe
any
true-borne
Citizens
heart
good
,
to
heare
such
doings
sung
to
some
filthie
tune
,
and
so
farewell
.
Turne
ouer
a
new
leafe
,
and
try
if
I
handle
the
Plague
in
his
right
kind
.
Deuoted
to
none
but
thy selfe
,
Some-body
.