Machiuells dogge

MACHIVELS DOGGE . MY d●gged Muse where hast thou dwelt so long , Or hid thy selfe from this sad heart of mine ? That longs to heare ther sing that deadly song . That Sorrow set vnto that soule of thine ? Where tyred spirits , that in torments dwell , Finde how the Deuill turnes the world to hell . Doest thou not see , except thou wilt be blinde , How life hath lost the notes of natures loue : And wisdomes wordes are helde but as a wind , Where Machauilians ma●chlesse villaines proue , And Tigres , Foxes , wolues and Owles , and Apes , Beganne the world in shewes of humane shapes . Say truth good dogge , and doe not spare to barke , But snarle and snappe at euery snea●ing thiefe . Let not a Curre goe lee●ing 〈◊〉 the darke , But shew thy kind , bough 〈◊〉 a dogge be briefe ; Lie at the doore , giue wa●ning to th● house , Scratch out a flea and 〈…〉 for a ●ow●● ●tudy no termes of stayned Eloquence , But speake as plainely , as a paued floore : Giue pride the height of sinnes preheminence : And bid the Pander keepe the Lechers doore : And let the flatterer bee the Slingthrifts guest , And locke the Misers heart vp in his chest . Brissell thy selfe vp at a beastly slaue , That cares for nothing , but to feede on fat : And cast a leere at such a lurking knaue , As pries about thee like a prowling Cat : And if the Foxe come neere thy Chickens penne , Runne at the Roague , and course him to his denne . But if thou chance to 〈◊〉 the Lyon roare , Lie downe and cowch , there is no looking out : But if thou meetst a Bull or a wilde Bore , Beware the horne , and come not neere the snowte : For other Cattell , horse , or Mare , or Asse , Come not too neere their heeles , and let them passe . Be plaine and honest , doe not sweare and lie , Nor complement with cappe , and crouch and knee , Nor like a Baby runne away and crie , For feare to looke vpon a Humble Bee : Loue no extremes in neyther heate nor colde , And make no treasure of ill gotten golde . Doe not perswade a foule ill fauourd slut : Shee is as fayre as Venus forehead cloth : Nor stand to teach a Sparrow to keepe Cut : Nor dwell all day vpon a dish of broth : But doe thy businesse that thou art about , And when t is midnight put the candle out . Stand , strut and stout , and doe not wagge the tayle At euery fillip of a fidling friend , Barke at a Cowe that kicketh downe her paile , And make no banquet of a puddings end : Call not a knaue a knight , nor clowne a king , In rules of reason , t is a rascall thing . For birdes , let not the Crane picke out thine eyes , Nor let the Parat teach thee how to prate : Nor fill thy paunch too full of Woodcockes pies , Nor let Madge Howlat make thee watch too late : Nor let the Cuckoe teach thee how to sing , Nor with the Buzard , make too low a wing , For Fishes doe not swallow like the Whale ; Nor like a Cre●fish creepe into a hole : Learne of the Dolphin how to keepe his scale , But doe not swim among the Herrings shole : L●●●ie of the Fl●oke to sto●t , but with the floud , But whether runnest thou Counter with thy sent , Backe take the wind , and beat it out againe : The Hare is gone , thou knowest not where shee went , List , how the hounds doe plie it on the plaine , Well fare the kennell makes the merry eye , Hah , good olde Tibbe , t is pitty thou shouldst die . But leaue this hunting , let vs fall to play At Cardes or Dice , or some such prety sport . With merrcy trickes to passe the time away . While idle spirits doe but long and short , But so , that in the end we may finde out , How Gamsters bring their golden world about . Take vp the Cardes , and giue the Coates their places , Honour the Kings , bee subiect to their swordes , Bow to the Queenes , doe reuerence to their Graces , But vse the Knaues , but as the time affoordes : Where , rhough the knaue of Clubs be calde the chiefe , An other knaue may be as close a thiefe . Sort out the suites , together lay the Trickes , Note a Bumcarde , and how to stoppe at neede , The Harts are spotted , Diamonds are but prickes , His time ill spent , that happens best to speed . The Spades are broken , and the C●● 〈◊〉 rotten , ●nd by the small Cardes ●●thin●● But what shall bee our game ? Primero ? Gleeke ? Or one and thirty , Bone ace , or new Cut , Or Mawe , or Ruffe , or Trumpe , what doe you leeke ? Or Post and Paire , or put and vnder put : All one to me , no Carde can come acrosse : Who hath no money , hath no feare of losse . But let vs thinke vpon a gallant game , Primero ? yea , there let vs set our rest : Prime in his nature hath a Princely name : And Hero beares his honour with the best , Oh royall grounds that such a game begunne , Blest be the Fathers christendo such a sonne . But it is costly to apply this play ? A good aduenture shewes no idle vaine : For when the stake is at the lowest stay , A happie Prime will make all whole againe , Then deale the Cardes , and happy be his time , That sets his fortune on so fayre a Prime . Enough of this , now let vs goe to Gleeke : Fayre play , and square , l●t●'● haue no falling out . Looke to your hand , and haue no braines to seeke : For dotage often comes home with a flo●● And 〈…〉 this ●b●●●●ion make , But let mee see , who speakes vnto the Ruffe ? Who vies it ? he that hath the happiest suit : But packe no Cardes , for that deserues the cuffe , And euer let the standers by bee mute : For many a time , a blinde and simple eye , May loose much money by the standers by . But deale the cardes , a mournivall of Aces , Welcome poore spots that makes the Players rich , And better welcome then those painted faces , That lay a Lordship in a durty ditch : But what ? are all the stakes vp ? then away , And let vs fall vpon some other play . Giue ouer Gleeke , a set or two at Maw : The Knaue fiue fingers , and the Ace of Harts : It was a Clowne that first deui'sd the law , That Pesants so should come to play their parts , And basenesse so about the Game should bring , A knaue should take the stake vp from the king . And truth to tell , I cannot well disgest , These heaues and helpes , and liuings after losse , For when the game sometimes is at the best , A baggage carde may hap to come a crosse , ●nd make the Gamster fret , and sweare and curse , 〈◊〉 leaue him neuer a penny i● his ●urse . Then let vs leaue this Mawe , and goe to R●ffe , Honour the King , the Queene , and the Knaue too : But yet mee seemes it smelles of Countrey stuffe , A Knight , vnto a Knaue should honour doe , Yet , if the Cardes such fortune him allot , If that it be his due , denie him not . But , for I see , some hidden note doth rest , Of base Ambition in a Peasants pride : To giue a Knaue such honour though in iest , I meane at Cardes , when Trompe is on his side , Cast vp the Cardes , the Trickes together put : And leauing Ruffe , le ts fall vpon New Cut. New Cut , indeede , le ts see no iugling Cut , But he that hits the game vpon the head , May in his bagge the money closely put , While other Gamsters may goe bare to bed : But , whatsoeuer Carde you play vpon , Take heede of going out , for then all 's gone . So farewell New Cut , and to bee you pleasde , A prety game to get into the hole : Loose a good Carde , and by an Ace bee easde , A lingring sport , the last man winnes the gole : A prety note , for many an eye to make , Wh● holdes out ●o● 〈…〉 But leauing Cardes , lett 's goe to dice awhile , To Passage , Treitrippe , Hazarde or Mumchaunce : But subtill Mates will simple mindes beguile : And blinde their eyes with many a blincking glaunce : Oh , cogges and stoppes , and such like diuelish trickes , Full many a purse of golde and siluer pickes . And therefore first , for hazard , hee that list , And passeth not , puts many to a blancke : And trippe without a Treye makes had I wist To sitte and mourne among the sleepers ranke . And for Mum-chance , how ere the chance doe fall , You must be mum for feare of marring all . But since I see that both at Cardes and Dice , There is such cogging , stopping , cutting , striking , Where poore Repentance payes so deare a prize , For want of wit , in idle wantons liking : I care not , if I quite giue ouer play : And ●et my wits to worke some other way . Then let vs goe to gardning , planting sowing , And turning vp of pasture grounds for graine : But in sowle weather hearbes may haue ill growing , And in fat groundes , ill weedes grow vp amaine , ●nd many a time doth many a poore man furde ●●eld of corne all blasted with a ●in●● Then leaue the Plough , and take the Merchants trade , And set our fortunes vpon ebbes and floods ; Alas , a poore colde reckening will bee made , When Seas or Pirats swallow vp the goods , And hee that sets his state vpon a winde , May looke before , and see his haps behind . What ? shall we then be Lawyers ? out alas , It is a fearefull clogge of conscience , To see a poore man from his right to passe , When in the proofe of truthes experience , A quitidy , a quirke , a word , a point , May put a long ioyed title out of ioynt . Shall wee be Souldiers then ? but , to what end ? Vnchristian comfort is the fruit of blood : Better keepe inward with a faithfull friend , Then purchase foes for any priuate good : And better pray that quarrels all may cease , And say , God saue the holders vp of peace . What ? shall wee then be Gallants ? and go gaye ? L●ue easily , feede , and sit , and sleepe or talke , Or study , how to throw our wealth away ? Or with a wanton make an idle walke ? No , thinke vpon the Prouerbe often tolde , A carelesse 〈…〉 What ? shall wee then be Scholars ? plie our bookes ? Alas , poore learning hath but little Grace : And , wee that want the golde and siluer hookes , Shall hardly hit vpon a happy place , Yet let vs loue all holy heauenly lines , And wish them honour that are true Diuines . What ? shall wee then be men of Art and Skill , And by our Phisicke to preferments clime ? No , a mistaken or distempered pill , May bring a man to death before his time , Yet , let vs loue all Noble Studients That cure , but doe not kill their Patients . What ? shall wee then goe learne to play and sing , And study Musicke in a merty Note ? No , heauy straines doe come from that hearts string , That makes a liuing of a Liuery coat : Yet , let vs loue those Angelike sweet voyces , Whose siluer soundes , the sorry heart reioyces . What ? shall wee then become close Alkemists , And study the Philosophers faire stone ? Oh no , I see a sight of had I wists , Doe weepe for siluer when their gold is gone : ●●ope Noddy , neuer was there such an other , 〈◊〉 make a Cosen of a simple brother . What shall we then doe ? somewhat must bee done , Of Idlenesse comes nought but Ignorance : The Ditchers daughters and the Hedgers sonne , Must make no marriage at a Morris daunce : But if that shee can sowe , and he can reape , The Ric may hap to make a prety heape . But to the purpose : What shall we goe doe ? Make loue , and learne to tell a lye by Art : Oh no , it is an idle thing to wooe , And , on an eye to throw away a hart : It shewes , the braine lyes ill within the head , That workes all day to bring a foole to bed . Yet , let vs thinke on something for our good , The world protesteth against Idlenesse : The Cuckowe findes a meanes to hatch her broode , Although shee cheate the Sparrowes simplenesse . But , since that Nature so her course hath runne , It is no matter , it must needes be done . By laughing , now there is but little got : Iesters and Iuglers may goe walke the Fayre : Beggers are lookt at , as men knew them not , The yonger brother seldome prooues the heyre , And yet sometimes it doth vnhapply hit : The heyre a foole , the yonger hath the wit , What shall wee then ? turne fooles when all is done ; Laugh , weare long coates , and sing , and eate far meate : Follow my Master , dandle his young sonne , And tell my Mistresse , who the foole did beate , That shee may chide her wenches euery one , For medling with her foole , when shee was gone . Or , shall we turne braue Pirats ? scoure the Seas , And robbe , and kill , and drowne , or hang at last : Oh no , that course doth not mine humour please , Of all conceites , I like no halter cast : For in the end , this fortune followes them , The Sea , the Gallowes , or hell swallowes them . What shall wee then doe ? speake once like a Dogge , Shall wee turne Poets ? proue Satiricall ? And call an Asse , an Asse , a Hogge , a Hogge ? Say holla , horse , and to a Iade , ho Ball : Be libell knaues , and fooles vnto their faces . Oh no , I loue no pleading in such cases . What ? shall we then turne Brokers , Vsurers ? And strippe the needy to their naked skinnes , Or secret B●ibers , or Extortioners ? Oh no , God blesse vs from such diuelish sinnes . What ? shall wee then bee Colliers ? digge for Coles ? Oh no , great dangers are in durty holes . What shall wee then doe ? we must not bee idle ; Goe teach a Spaniell , how to fetch a Ducke : Or how to ride a Colte without a bridle , Or a young Nurse , to giue a Baby sucke ? Oh no , these are but idle toyes and trifles , And there is nothing to be got with Nifles . Write Epitaphes vpon the death of dogges ? And say , here lyes a good olde sucking Curre ; Cut rusty faces out of rotten logges : And of an Owles skinne , make an Ape a furre ? Or teach a Birde to whistle in a Cage . Or beare a Bride Cuppe at a marriage ? Or sing new Ballads ? or make country games ; Or set vp sights were neuer seene before ? Make Epigrams or Anagrams of names ; Or learne the healing of a festred sore ? Learne any practise that may gather pelfe : But if thou loue me , doe not hang thy selfe . Bring vp a Cat to hunt a Mouse drie foote , Or teach a Squirrell how to clime a reede , A Skarre crow in a garden how to shoote , Or a blinde Harper ; how a song to reade : Or how a flea may scape the fingers ends , Or how a lowse may l●●● among his friends . But , canst thou do no good with cats and dogs ? Turne Ratcatcher , and lay for rats and mice : For , t is but idle to goe fish for frogs , And beggars get but little by their lice : And Pandarisme is so poore a trade , That none but beggers bargaine for a Iade . But , doe not bite so softly , make them smart , Tell Iohn a Noddes he is no Gentleman : And giue the Rogue the whippe , the Whore the cart , And turne the foole to his Maide Marian : And tell the Hobby horse he is an Asse , And old Tom Piper but an Owliglasse . And tell the Wittoll , that doth weare the horne , Hee is a Rascall , bee he neere so rich . And Iilian Iustice in her proudest scorne , Iane Shore her sister , dyed but in a ditch : And Iacke a Lent that lookes aboue the Moone , His breakefast hath beene brought him after noone . Tell Tom a Lin , that holdes the world with tales , A Iester , and a Iacke , are cosen Iarmines : And he that trades for nuts , must take the shales : And Coney-keepers must lay trappes for vermines : And hee that goes a fishing for a Flooke , 〈…〉 bee doe not loose his hooke . And when the painted Image of ill thought , Shall see how Age shall shriuell vp her skinne , And shee shall see her cunning come to nought : When nature was but nourisht vp with sinne : Oh , in what fright will her poore spirit dwell , When shee shall serue for Kitchin stuffe in hell . And when the Bawde that fils the golden bagges , But with the fruit of Natures excrements , Shall at her death behold those rotten ragges , That shall become her richest ornaments , How will her spirits fret , and ban and curse , When shee shall serue to be the Diuels nurse . And so good Dogge , lie downe and take thy rest , The beggers all are going home to bed : Each little birde is nuzling in her nest : And euery horn'd beast ginnes to cast the head , And euery Mowse into her hose is gone , And thou hast little left to thinke vpon . For if it bee , as I doe hope it is , The world is come vnto a happy passe : Kindnesse lets no man know what thing is his : The Horse is growne so inward with the Asse , And loue is growne so g●●●● 〈◊〉 friend 〈…〉 . The coast is cleare , there are no knaues abroad , The Cuckowe husht , and cannot sing a note : The Owle is hid within the Iuy todde , And Iacke a Lent hath cast his liuely cote , The Miller gone to the Market with his Mare , And cleanely wenches quickly sell their hayre . There is no swearing now , but yea and nay , And Conscience now determines euery case : And charity is so in euery way , That euery Begger dare to shew his face : And beauty is so courteous , and so kinde : That euery man for money knowes her mind . And honesty is wondrously beloued ; And simple Truth is helde a blessed soule , And patience almost euery where approued . And vertue writ vp in ●he ●nly rowle , And Time so well imployde to profites vse , That where no fault is ; there needes no excuse . The rich men loue to heare the poore mens prayers , And poore men loue to take the ric●●ens p●●ce : The wise and learned sit in iudgements chaires And thiefes and murtherers hangs for their offence , And men and women do● 〈…〉 Tell William Woodcocke with his winking eyes , Hee is a foole for all his shew of wit : And Lawrence Lobcocke , that he prates and lies Of his pied Beagle , and his Sorell Titte : And Dauid Dogbolt , with his boasting brags , The Hangman is his Tayler for his Ragges . Tell Peter Pudding ; with his paltry stuffe , His wealth is all but in a Pedlers packe : And Saunder Huffe cappe , with his Ruffe and Snuffe , The Tinkers boy is but a bragging Iacke , And Sinior Spruse that smoothes it like a Bride , He makes himselfe the laughing stocke of pride . Tell Captaine To spot with his Tarletons cut , His swaggering will not get him sixeteene pence : And Susan Slapsauce shee is but a slut : For all her powder of experience , And Stabbing Stinckard with his minsing mouse , The Hangman meetes him at the Sessions house . Tell Slouenista that doth lie and sleepe . Hee breedes but filthy blood to fatten fleas : And drunken Dicke that layes his braines in steepe , The dropsie is a horrible disease , And Barnaby that goo● 〈◊〉 ●awdy Squire , A cuppe of sacke , 〈…〉 Nose on fire . Tell Ragge a Muffin that doth rap out oathes , The Cutpurse sweares to keepe him company : When Tiburne shall vncase them of their clothes , And make an end of all their villany , While olde Madge Howlat , and yong Mawkin Spooner Will weepe for sorrow , they were hangde no sooner . And tell olde Gregory with his grumbling chappes , Hee shall not beare a penny to his graue : And if hee doe not , looke to after claps : Hee may happe know , what t is to be a knaue : When hee shall lie in deadly gripes and grones , To see the diuell come to gnaw his bones . And tell fine princking Parnell of Pickt hatch , The Surgeon sayes , that she is past all cure : And though shee cousned a poore silly patch , To bring a buzard to a baudy lure : Yet now , both towne and country knowes her trickes , Shee may goe seeke the hedge for rotten stickes , And tell olde Tibbe , that dwells in Turnhole street , Her name hath beene in Bridewell long agoe ; And for her breath it is so pockie sweet , That all her teeth are rotten on a roe : And for her tongue the Clarke of Cl●●ken well , ●●●e shall bee sent for , for chiefe scol● in hell . And tell that ilfac't whore of Islington , Shee poysons all that come but neere her breath , And brings a world vnto confusion : For , who comes neere her , comes vpon his death , And if he scape the plague the poxe will haue him , And if the diuell take him who shall saue him . Tell shame fac't sheepes head with his rubies blush , He cannot make a curtsie handsomely : And , all his Rethoricke is not worth a Rush , Because he tels his tale ill-fauouredly : And , for his mistresse , she can not abide him , Because she sees the foole so often ride him . And , tell the Pander that doth purchase lands , Out of the lust of filthy lechery ; When , he shall fall into the Deuils hands : To feele the venome of loues trecherie : Besmearde all with the excrements of nature : Hee shall in hell , be the most horride creature . And tell the Lecher that doth take delight , To ferret all day at a Coneyhole : And makes the night his day , the day his night , When lacke of warmth shall make him blow the cole , After the poxe hath heere confounde his bones : His soule shall ●●ue in ●●●ing ●ones . Tell Clownifista with his clowted shoes , His cobling craft will proue him but a knaue , When that his nose is in the Deuils noose , His soule in hell shall serue but for a slaue , Within the sincke of all the filth of sinne , To dig vp holes to throw the damned in . And tell the ouerglutted Epicure , Whose ease delighteth but in fat and froth , When he in hell shall hourely toyle endure , And haue his wages in vnwholesome broth . When boyling leade shall doe his guts no good , When hee shall starue or gnawe his flesh for food . Be sullen , loure , and skowle at knaues , and fooles , That walking come by thee like men of worth : And send the scoldes vnto the cucking stooles : And bring the beggers with their wallets foorth : And sweepe the streetes from all the cheating mates , And take heed of the horne beasts in the gates . Runne all about among the rascall people , And beat the beggers from the rich mens doores , And goe from Charing Crosse vnto Paules steeple , And clense the streetes of all the knaues and whores , Kill all the dogges for feare of their faction , And send the idle roagues vnto ●●rection . Scoure all the coasts , Kent street and Clarken well , Wapping , East Smithfield , Chick lane & Turnhole street Pickthatche , the Spittle , Shorditch , and Halliwell ; And all the by-lanes where the Baudes doe meet : And Tuttill street , S. Giles and Islington : And make a steppe ouer to Newington , All scolding Allies , and such scuruey places ; And take them as thou find'st them euery where : Bring out the Punkes with all their pockie faces , The purple , tawnie , round and russer haire , Set vp a stake , and bring the Refuse thether , And make a Bonefire of them all together . Make much of none , but true kind hearted wenches , That would be honest , if they could tell how , But meddle with no great ones on their benches , For feare of worse hurt then a broken brow : Yet if thou see'st a knacke of knauery goe Thinke what thou list , although thou say not so . Barke at a Traytor , sawne not on a theefe , Tell them the halter hangs right in their way : And tell the Butcher when hee buyes his beefe , The hornes may helpe to make the hide away , And watch the least good fortune may befall , For greedy hounds will haue the deuill and all . Or , with Diogenes , goe seeke and see , If by a Lanthorne , and a Candle light : Thou canst finde out where there may hidden be : One honest man from wicked wordlings sight : Or make a Suruey of old Timons trees : Whether the pockie whores haue payde their fees . Rayle at the world , and hate it to the death , And s●y it is but patience Purgatory : A c●●●red mouth that giues a cursed breath : That sounds but sorrow , death , and misery : Where he that can in his best sence conceiue it : Thinkes himselfe neuer happy , till hee leaue it . But for the vertuous , eyther high or low : Honour and loue them , though thou dost not know them : But for the vitious , let the villaines goe : Downe to the hell , a blast of whirlewinde blow them : Yet wish them not to hell , but somewhat better : Although thou knowest they be the Hangmans debter . Fret till the flesh bee bare vnto the bones , To see thy spirit so thy body spend : Sigh , sob , and swell , with such deepe inward grones , As heart would burst , to see thou canst not mend : Not mend a slender hurt , nor little paine : But heart all broke , that cannot heale againe , Bite hard thy lippes , and shake thy troubled head , And grate thy teeth vntill thy gummes doe bleede : And looke as lumpish as a peece of lead , And speake to no man , but to serue thy neede , Walke by thy selfe , and seeke no company , And hate the thought of hellish villanie . For , let rich Midas bee a golden asse , And like a toade , a dogged tyrant swell : And Iudas with his poysoned spirit passe , With all the cursed damned crue to hell : Loue thou thy God , and for the godly pray : And so , with all the world make holy day . If that thou see a Begger grow to wealth , Marke how he gets it , and so giue him grace : If honestly , regarde him , if by stealth Of villany , wish him a viler place , And yet alas , in charitie pray for him : Hell may not haue him , though the heauens abhor him . And put on patience , for it is but vaine To fret and fume , and chafe , and play the foole : Let vs goe fall vpon some finer straine , And bring our wits vnto some better schoole : Entreat a little , it may breed● good blood , See if fayre words will I 〈◊〉 the world to good . Entreat all knaues to turne , all honest men , And honest men they will be honest still : Entreat no Cocke to treade his neighbours henne : But let the Turtles kindly sit and bill : Entreat the Tinker , better stop his holes , And Grim the Colier giue vs better coles , Entreat the shepheard that doth sheare his sheepe , Hee will not clip too low , to cut the skinne : And bid his woman that shee doe not weepe , Because the mouse hath beene within her Binne : Her husband will not feele it in his purse , And sift the meale , the bread is neere the worse . Entreat the Geese and Ganders hold their peace , There is not one wise word among them all : And all the alley scoldes , their brawling cease , For t is a filthy thing to scolde and brawle : And all fayre wenches that are beauties flowrse , They will not be the Deuils Paramours . Intreat the Asses for to leaue their braying , The Peacocke that he will not stoupe his tayle : And mad young wenches for to leaue their maying : The milke mayde that shee looke vnto her payle : The Stallion horse , hee doe not beat the mare , And greedy houndes they doe not kill the hare . Now fie on fooles cap , heere 's a dish of drinke , To choke a dogge , let all these toyes alone : Let vs our selues of somewhat else bethinke , That yet may doe some good when all is gone : That though our bodies our of frame are growne , Our spirits yet may not be ouerthrowne . Then let vs leaue the world and go to Church , And turne all Preachers true and holy men ? And while the Knaue doth giue the foole the lurch . And plotters write , with an vngodly penne : Let vs deliuer by the word of truth , The way to heauen , both vnto age and youth . Yea , let vs reade the rules of sacred life , Perswade the troubled soule to patience : The husbands care , and comfort to the wife : The childe and seruant , due obedience , Faith to the friend , and to the neighbour peace , That loue may liue , and suites at law may cease . Pray for the health of all that are diseased , Confession vnto all that are conuicted : And patience vnto all that are displeased , And comfort vnto all that are afflicted , And mercy vnto all that haue offended , And Grace to all , that all may be amended , Pray for the King , the Queene , and Countries health , Their royall Issue , and their Peeres of State : The Councell , Clergy , and the common wealth , That no misfortune may their blisse abate . But that th' almighty so his Church will cherish , That not a member of his loue may perish . To King and Queene giue Rights of Royalty , And for their vertues giue them worthy prayse : Grace to the Prince , the Subiect loyalty , That all together may haue happy dayes , The Councell wisdome , and the Commons wealth , The vertuous honour , and the gracious health . Inuay against all vile iniquity , But chide the sinner with no bitter checke : But so perswade him with such piety , That on the blocke hee may lay downe his necke , And at the stroke of death such comfort finde , As mercy giues to a repentant mind . Come by the proude with , Lucifers great fall , And lay downe Dinah at the vnchast dore , The irreligious with the life of Paul , Who once conuerted , neuer fell no more , The painted face with wicked Iezabel , And the rich Churle with Diues deepe in hell . Come by the fine , but fond conceited wit , With Herods and in all his Eloquence : And tell the franticke in a furious fit , Of cursed Saul , in his impatience , With Ananiah , touch ill conscience , And bribing hands with 〈◊〉 thirty pence . Come by the Iudge that giues Iniustice doome , With Pilats feare of Cesar , more then God : And bid the Tyrant looke on Neroes toombe , Whose flesh an earth with wormes doth make abode : While deepe in hell , his soule doth feele the smart Of a proud Tirants bloody wicked hart . Tell them that murmure at heauens Maiesty , Of Corah , Dathan , and Abirams death : And finely touch the tongue of blasphemie , With huge Goliah in his hellish breath : And bid the murtherer looke on Abels blood , When teares nor prayers , Caine did any good . And tell the powerfull in their highest places , That mercy is the grace of maiesty : And from the poore the proud that turne their faces , Shall finde the fruits of their Impiety . When deafened hellish eares , and blinded eyes , Will see no teares , nor heare the damned cries Allure the world to charitable loue , And shew the comfort of a christian peace : And seeke the sweetnesse in the soule to proue : How patience , vertue makes all passions cease , In humble , faithfull , carefull , constant , kinde , Set downe the notes of a true noble mind . Bid virgins follow all the Virgin Mary : And men their Master Christ in all his merits : And men and women all their selues so carry , That they may shew true hearts and christian spirits , In mildenesse , meekenesse , and loues lowlinesse , Set downe the notes of natures happinesse . Giue beauty warning of a wanton eye , And riches warning of a wretched mind : And Honour warning of Indignity , And aged eyes from being Cupid blinde : And power a warning of the fall of pride . And pray , the gracious may in grace abide . And shew the curses threatned vpon sinne , The blessings on obedience vnto grace : And how the cursed here their hell beginne , Whose teares nor prayers in mercy haue no place : And how the blessed heere beginne to tast The ioyes of heauen that shall for euer last . Wish euery King to haue King Dauids heart , And euery Queene , the Queen of Sheb●s wit : And euery Councell , Salomons best part Of vnderstanding , for a kingdome sitte , And euery Lady , fayre Rebecca● face , And euery Virgin , the wise Virgins grace . And euery Souldier , Iosuahs true spirit , And euery Scholer Aarons Eloquence , And euery Miser , wicked Di●●● merit : And euery poore man Io●● true patience , And euery Lawyer Moses h●●●nly mind And euery Marchant of Zac●●● kind . Doe not with Esau him of or Venis●● And sell thy birthright for a messe of po●ge : Lest Iacob steale away thy B●●●on . When Isaac fals vpon the yeeres of ●otag● : But be a Ioseph in the time of heed To good olde Iacob , and his blessed seed . Be Abraham in his sonnes sacrifice , And follow Lo● in his loues h●●linesse , Like Salomon be in thy iudgement wise , And Ionathan in friendship faithfulnesse , Like Henoch make thy ●o●● 〈◊〉 loue ; And with Eliah liue 〈…〉 Be both a Priest , a Prophet and a King , A Priest to make thy heart a Sacrifice , A Prophet to declare the way to bring The blessed Spirit vnto Paradise , A King to rule thy selfe with such direction , Thy soule may keepe thy body in subiection . Oh kill not Conscience with a cruell letter , Yet let the Atheist haue but little hope And count the false Professor little be●●er , That for dissembling doth deser●●● the rope , For cleanely Cook●● doe more it is a ●●●th , That filthy water makes 〈◊〉 ●o ●efo●●e b●●●●● . And make no monster member of the Church , Nor take ill counsell of Achitophel : Nor let illusion giue thy soule the lurch , To leade thy heart into the sinke of hell , Teach humble loue , hate all ambition● pride , And shrowde thy vertues vnder Gra●s side . And diet not with Holofor●es drinke , But ioyne with Iudith in her ioyfull strength , Let Dalila , not make stout S●mpson winke , Lest the Philistints fall on thee at length , No Salomon be led by Phara●● ●●l●i●● , ●est by the flesh , the spirit be b●●●●lde . Know , what and when , and where , and how to speake Bee fearefull , how thou doest thy God offend : A vertuous vow , take heede thou doest not breake , And Mercies pleasure , patiently a●en● Loue no man for his purse , 〈◊〉 for his place : But for his wit , his vertue and his grace . Be wisely carefull , but not couetous , For Conscience wo●●e , will make a mortall wound , And be deuout , but not Idolatrous : For , that both soule and body will confound : Be kindly louing , 〈…〉 lecherous , For that in , nature is most impious , To idle things accustome not thy thought : And tremble at the word of Blasphemy : With vaine perswasions , 〈…〉 wrought , And keepe thy tongue from 〈◊〉 Infamy ; Hold backe thy hand from all vnlawfull action ; And weane thy Spirit from vngodly faction . Care not to reade except to understand , And let thy learning teach thee how to liue : With perfect care let euery course be scand ; And spare to spend , that thou mayest haue to giue , Thinke no man happy o● 〈…〉 Stage , Where death and 〈…〉 ; make a marriage Prie not into the faults of priu●●● 〈◊〉 To lay them open to their ●●eed sh●●●● ; Nor strike a dash with a false deadly pe●●e , To kill the credit of an honest na●e ; And for the simple , vse no ●●btil●●ai●●● , But pitty the afflicted in their paines . Flatter not folly with ●n idle faith , Nor let earth stand vpon her owne desart ; But shew what wisdome in the scripture saith , The fruitfull hand doth show the ●●thful ●art , Beleeue the Word , and th●● to ●●nd thy will , And teach obedience for a blessed 〈◊〉 Let not the beauteous , nor the ri●h be proud , Nor aged wanton , nor the youthfull wilde ; For in the rules of Grace , 〈◊〉 not allow'd , And graceles h●●ts , are all from heauen e●●ld : Let valour nor be cruell , wi●●● kinde , Nor base conceits corrupt a no●le mind . But do not raue , nor raile , 〈◊〉 sta●●●or stare , As if thy care would go to ●●ffes with sinne : But shew how mercy doth repentance spar● , Whilest working faith doth heau'nly fa●our winne , And Loues obedience to the 〈◊〉 d●●h pr●●e , The chosen soule , that God doth chiefly loue . Chide ●inners , as the Father doth his childe , And keepe them in the awe of louing feare : Make sinne most hatefull , but in words be nice , That humble patience may the better heare ; And wounded conscience may receyue reliefe , When true repentance pleade● the sinners griefe . Throw not the sinner headlong to damnation , Nor fright the faithfull with a cursed feare ; But winne Repentance vnto Reformation , And teach the Christian , how his crosse to beare , Giue comfort in thy Cares instruction , To saue the faithfull from the soules destruction . Heale the Infect of sinne with oyle of grace , And wash the soule with true contritions teares , And when Confession shewes her heauy case , Deliuer faith from all Infernall feares , That when high Iustice threat●●● sinne with death , Mercy againe , may giue Repentance breath . Yet flatter not the fowle delight of sinne , But make it loathsome in the eye of loue ; And seeke the heart with holy c●res to winne , To worke the best way for the soules be ●●ue ? So teach , so liue , that both 〈…〉 deed , The would 〈…〉 Time hath a course , that Nature cannot stay , For youth must die , or come to doting age : What is our life on earth ? but as a play , Where many a part doth come vpon the Stage , Rich , poore , wise , fond , fayre , fowle , and great , and small And old , and young , death makes an end of all . Where hee that makes his life a Comedy , To laugh and sing , and talke away the Time : Shall finde it in the end a Tragedie , When mournefull bells , will make no merry chime , When sad despayre shall feare infernall euill , While Sinne and death ; are Agents for the Deuill . Oh when the rich , and greedy Miser dies , While fearefull visions will his soule affright ? And keepe his heart in hellish miseries , To looke vpon so many a fearefull sight , When Pride , oppression , Auarice and Theft , Of hope , of mercy , hath the foule bereft . And when the Murtherer that delights in blood , Shall feele his heart to haue a mortall wound : And grieues to looke vpon ill gotten good , While guilty conscience runnes his care a ground : What will hee doe ? when truth his soule shall tell , A tyrants blood shall make a broth in hell .