TIME
Is
a
Turne-Coate
.
OR
Englands
three-fold
Metamorphosis
.
Wherin
is
acted
the
Pensiue
mans
Epilogomena
,
to
Londons
late
lamentable
Heroicall
Comi-Tragedie
.
ALSO
A
Panegyricall
Pageant-speech
or
Idylion
pronounced
to
the
Citie
of
London
,
vpon
the
entrance
of
her
long
expected
Comfort
.
Qui
color
ater
erat
,
nunc
est
contrarius
atro
.
Written
by
IOHN
HANSON
.
LONDON
,
Printed
for
I.
H.
and
are
to
be
sold
at
the
signe
of
the
Bible
in
Paules
Church-yard
.
1604.
TO
THE
RIGHT
HONORABLE
SIR
THOMAS
BENNET
KNIGHT
,
LORD
MAIOR
OF
the
famous
Citie
of
London
,
the
right
Worshipfull
Sir
William
Romley
,
and
Sir
Thomas
Midleton
Knights
,
and
Sheriffes
of
the
same
Citie
:
increase
of
honor
and
euer-flourishing
felicitie
.
RIGHT
Honorable
and
right
Worshipfull
,
I
haue
long
expected
,
that
some
men
of
greater
experience
and
grauer
iudgment
then
my self
,
ere
this
should
haue
bent
their
studies
to
congratulate
your
prosperous
designements
with
their
learned
Labours
:
not
onely
in
this
regard
,
that
it
hath
seemed
gracious
in
the
eyes
of
Heauen
,
to
turne
the
time
of
destruction
into
mirth
and
exhilaration
,
to
dispell
the
cloudes
of
desolation
from
the
splendant
Sun
of
this
Citie
,
and
to
seale
vp
the
iawes
of
that
starued
Tyger
,
rauening
and
ranging
too
and
fro
with
insatiate
appetite
,
to
gormandize
indefinitely
without
partialitie
:
but
also
in
respect
of
the
proceedings
in
your
general
functions
and
callings
;
therein
manifesting
your
ardent
zeale
to
the
Church
and
Commonwealth
,
in
the
reformation
of
some
particular
and
monstrous
enormities
nurced
and
fostred
vp
in
the
same
Citie
,
wounding
the
hearts
of
many
with
the
sting
of
Securitie
,
who
thereby
fall
into
a
Lethargie
of
their
owne
ruination
:
they
being
naturally
like
the
Basilisk
,
who
by
stinging
a
man
,
prouoketh
him
to
conclude
his
destruction
with
the
period
of
a
sweet
sleepe
;
which
to
discusse
vpon
more
amply
,
were
but
to
light
a
torch
,
when
the
Sunne
boasteth
in
his
vertical
point
,
or
to
multiplie
leaues
to
a
greene
tree
.
But
perceiuing
the
turne
of
Times
euent
to
fall
out
opposite
to
my
expectation
,
and
a
time
of
respiration
exhibited
vnto
me
by
sacred
Prouidence
,
(
for
Deus
nobis
haec
otiafecit
)
I
(
though
most
vnfit
,
not
so
much
in
regard
of
my
litle
scholership
and
reading
,
as
in
respect
of
my
iuuenilitie
and
lesse
experience
,
though
Assiduè
discens
plurima
,
fiam
senex
)
haue
thought
it
not
impertinent
to
my
dutie
,
as
also
consonant
to
your
dignities
,
to
cast
this
poore
mite
of
feruent
affection
and
congratulation
,
into
the
rich
treasurie
of
your
honorable
and
worshipfull
Patronage
:
being
inforced
hereupon
to
vse
the
meanes
of
that
poore
man
,
who
hauing
neither
gold
nor
iewels
,
presented
both
his
hands
full
of
running
water
to
Artaxerxes
.
And
the
rather
,
for
that
I
behold
many
presidents
and
pregnant
demonstrations
of
a
flourishing
Spring-tide
of
happinesse
substituted
to
your
predomination
and
gouernment
;
in
the
constituting
of
necessarie
and
requisite
lawes
for
the
supplanting
and
depopulating
of
vice
;
and
being
constituted
,
are
strictly
obserued
and
executed
by
your
importunate
industrie
,
(
which
(
as
Caesar
saith
)
is
Fortunae
Imperator
,
and
vrgeth
an
assent
vltra
vires
rationis
)
leading
this
citie
as
peaceable
Conductors
,
(
or
as
Theodosius
did
Rome
)
to
a
fruitfull
Autumne
.
For
Archidamus
being
asked
,
what
made
the
Lacedaemonian
kingdome
to
flourish
,
answered
:
First
,
the
lawes
;
and
next
,
the
Magistrates
obseruing
the
Lawes
:
and
Aristotle
saith
,
that
Magistratus
est
custos
legis
,
also
Xenophon
:
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
Non
differt
bonus
Princeps
à
patre
bono
.
Whereupon
may
be
inferred
,
that
Magistrates
(
as
Patres
patriae
)
ought
seriously
and
with
iudiciall
precaution
,
not
onely
to
prescribe
ordinances
tending
to
the
generall
benefite
of
a
citie
or
commonwealth
;
but
also
to
be
respectiue
(
as
the
father
tendreth
the
successiue
fortune
of
his
child
with
care
and
vigilancie
)
that
they
foreslow
not
their
progression
in
the
performance
of
their
due
execution
:
for
Non
decet
principem
virum
totam
noctem
dormire
,
cui
populi
gubernacula
commissasunt
,
&
à
cuius
cura
pendent
ingentia
rerum
momenta
.
But
lest
any
man
should
obiect
against
me
,
that
I
pretend
by
a
kind
of
aemulation
and
blandiloquence
to
adorne
your
merits
like
a
Barbarian
image
,
as
Alexander
was
by
Midius
:
or
on
the
contrarie
,
to
taxe
me
of
calumniation
with
this
inueterate
Axiome
:
In
medio
tutissimus
ibis
:
(
which
two
,
proue
the
Canker-worms
of
a
flourishing
countrie
:
for
Diogenes
the
Cynicke
being
asked
,
what
kind
of
beasts
are
most
deuouring
;
he
answered
:
that
of
tame
beasts
,
the
Flatterer
,
and
of
wild
beasts
,
the
Back-biter
,
)
therefore
so
to
abandon
the
first
,
as
not
culpable
of
the
last
,
I
will
cleaue
to
the
golden
Medium
,
breaking
off
that
discourse
,
and
cease
to
discusse
vpon
such
a
Theame
.
And
now
to
returne
to
my
old
taske
,
I
humbly
intreate
your
fauourable
entertainment
to
these
my
vnpolished
lines
,
being
hewed
out
and
squared
by
one
of
the
meanest
of
Appolloes
Artificers
.
And
I
the
more
seriously
desire
it
,
for
that
I
am
deeply
resolued
,
they
shal
find
a
sufficient
shelter
vnder
the
wings
of
your
Honorable
and
Worshipfull
names
and
Patronage
,
as
vnder
the
receptacle
of
a
strong
fortified
Testudo
,
against
the
yelping
chaps
of
those
snarling
Zoylists
,
qui
potiùs
pro
consuetudine
,
quàm
proferocitate
latrant
,
barking
more
for
custome
then
curstnesse
:
who
by
disgorging
their
mud-mixed
censures
vpon
the
studious
essayes
of
particulars
,
(
for
Apollo
nullos
habet
inimicos
,
nisi
nimbos
)
do
resolue
with
themselues
by
that
meanes
to
win
a
purchase
of
a
laureall
applause
,
and
to
erect
an
eternall
monument
of
reputation
to
themselues
,
vpon
the
disgraces
of
other
mens
indeauours
:
but
thereby
prouing
culpable
to
themselues
of
their
owne
ignorance
,
and
ripping
vp
the
bowels
of
their
imperfections
and
grosse
fatuities
,
in
the
calumniating
of
ingenious
enterprises
,
and
by
bringing
backe
with
impudent
arrogance
those
stolne
sparkes
which
they
snatched
from
Appolloes
sacred
flames
,
whereby
the
moistned
muddie
motions
of
their
brains
are
enforced
to
euaporate
in
a
smoothering
heate
;
do
appeare
to
the
world
,
to
surpasse
in
immanitie
,
the
Anthropophagi
or
Canibals
;
who
,
though
they
gormandize
on
other
mens
flesh
,
yet
will
not
deuoure
themselues
.
Thus
hoping
,
that
these
vnlettered
lines
shal
passe
without
disturbance
vnder
the
couert
of
your
worthie
protections
,
I
humbly
intreat
your
Honor
and
Worships
,
to
admit
this
poore
pittance
into
your
rich
banquetting-house
of
acceptation
and
tolleration
,
with
no
lesse
willing
mind
,
then
by
course
of
affectionate
congratulation
it
is
presented
vnto
your
hands
;
which
,
if
it
may
find
free
accesse
,
I
will
turne
my
sequele
essayes
with
the
turne
of
ensuing
Time
,
more
deepely
to
conuerse
with
the
Muses
thereby
to
bring
foorth
a
further
manifestation
of
my
ardent
affection
towards
your
worthie
personages
.
In
the
meane
time
,
Heauens
prosper
your
worthie
proceedings
.
London
,
26.
of
March
.
1604.
Your
Honor
and
Worships
humbly
deuoted
:
John
Hanson
.