Pasquils passe, and passeth not Set downe in three pees. His passe, precession, and prognostication.

PASQVILS Passe , and passeth not . Set downe in three Pees . His Passe , Precession , and Prognostication .

LONDON Printed by V.S. for Iohn Smithicke , and are to be solde at his shop within Temple Barre . 1600.

To my very louing and vndeserued good friend M. Griffin Pen , vpon his hearts true worthinesse shine the Sunne of highest happinesse .

THe countenance of a Landlord , makes a poore Tenant halfe a King , and simple men are no fooles , that followe the shadow of alittle honour : for my selfe , I am of none of these Sects : for I esteeme more of the kindenes of a good spirite , than of faire wordes , that bewitch Ignorance ; yet I reuerence Honour , and loue Vertue , but finding my selfe vnworthy the fauour of great ones , and yet not willing to looke among the too little , I will loue where I find cause , & deserue where I finde loue : in which sence , entreating you , in the fore rancke of my affection , to march with your kind friend M. Conquest : I commend to the good leizure of of your patience , the perusing of this little pamphlet , deuided into three pees : a Passe , a Precession , and a Prognostication : Pasquill gaue them to me , to deliuer vnto you , which with his further seruice shall be further at your commandement : and for my selfe how well I loue you I will not tell you , til your commandement make me happy in your emploiment , & so wishing both in the work , & my wil , a more worthines of your kindnes , I rest :

Yours affectionately to command , N. B.

To the Reader .

PAsquill commends him to all that loue him , to whom he giues to vnderstand , that after his pains taken in his Mad-cappe , and his Fooles-cappe , laying them both aside , thinking to take alitle rest , gat him his Night-cappe , vnder which , in steede of sleep , many idle humors came in his head , which troubling his little staied braine , would not let him be at quiet , till he had committed them to the custodie of pen , and incke , and paper , which hauing set downe somewhat to his owne contentment , he hath in diuers Copies sent abroade to all such as will pay for the writing , or els , I should rather say , for the printing which I thinke be better cheape : to tell you what he doth intreate of , were needeles , when it followeth neere at hand : and therefore onely thus much I will tell you , hauing past through manie strange courses , and finding little or nothing so pleasing , but tasted like a bitter sweete , vpon a suddaine fell vpon , Good Lord deliuer vs , and so continuing of his Precession as long as he thought good , growing weary of his life , fell to dreame of Doomes-day : but lest I prooue tedious , I will turne you to that you shall reade if it shall please you , and consider of it as it shall like you , and so for this time I leaue you .

Your friend Pasquill .

Pasquill to Morphorius .

MOrphorius , I promised thee a Passe , which heere I haue sent thee , hoping in the like kindnesse ere long to heare from thee : in the meane time , let mee tell thee , that for our parts , we haue little ioy to looke for in this worlde : fooles doe not vnderstand vs , and knaues do but abuse vs , the wealthy loue vs not , and the poore can do vs no good : honesty is ill for thriuing ; and yet the wisedome of the world being foolishnesse before God , I know not what to say : but for that the time of our life is short in this worlde ; let vs leaue vanitie , and fall to some vertuous courses and yet , because I will not at this time trouble thee too much with the Scripture , I will leaue thee to reade what I haue scribbled : and so end in some haste .

Thine , Pasquill .

PASQVILS Passe HE that desires from danger safe to passe Along the world , his wofull wretched daies , And would behold ( as in a looking glasse ) The blocks and stops , and such vnhappy staies , As crosse a thousand in their very waies : Let him but creepe as I haue learnd to go , And tell me if it do him good or no. He that will passe neere to a Princes Court , Let him take heede his tongue breake not his necke , Nor mate himselfe among the Noble sort , Lest prowde presumption haue too sore a checke , Nor bend his will , to euery wantons becke : But watch good fortunes , when they kindly fall , And then passe on , and haue no feare at all . But , if a f●ce of brasse will be too bold , Or like a sheepes head shunne good company , Or of complexion be too chilling cold , Or fiery hot vpon an agony , Or much inclind to any villany , Or for his wit , ioyne issue with an asse , He hath no warrant neere the Court to passe . He that will passe before a Iudgement seate , Let him take heede his case be good and cleere , Lest , when that Trueth doth of the matter treate , A heedlesse will do buy repentance deere : While cost ill lost doth breed but heauy cheere : But let him chiefly carry a good purse , And then be sure to passe on ne're the worse . But if he come with an vncertainety , And thinke a curtsie will excuse a fee , In hope that Law in Pitties charity , Wil alwayes giue the right where it should be , Let him learne this probatum rule of me , That Trueth and Wealth do very much in law , While beggar Falshoode is not worth a straw . He that wil passe into a warlike field , Let him not be too rash , nor yet too slow , Not franticke fight , nor like a coward yeeld , But with discretion so his valour show , That fame may grace him where e're he goe : Lest heedlesse will do shew when he is slaine , He may passe thither , but not backe againe . He that will passe into a Merchants booke , Let him take heede how to discharge the debt , Lest when that Kindnesse doth for Patience looke , He be so tangled in a Statute net , That he be so with cunning trickes beset , That to the Counter he do passe so fast , As he can scarce passe backe againe in haste . He that wil passe into a Ladies eies , And in her hands wil leaue his little heart , And yet with all his wit , is not so wise , As to discerne the sleight of Venus Art , In giuing of the Fooles-Cap by desart : Let him go better set his wittes to schoole , Or else be sure to passe for a good foole . He that will passe into the Holy land , Let him be grounded in the rules of grace , And be assurde that he doth vnderstand , What is the trueth that falshoode may deface , Lest when that Wisedome Follie doth displace , And Learnings Court breake vp , and all are gone , He passe but for a simple blind sir Ihon. He that will passe into a Clownes conceit , Let him take heed● be know a clouted shooe , Lest he be cousoned with a close deceit : When seely Fooles know not what Knaues can doe , With , Yea , and Nay , to bring an Ideot to : But if he kindly know Clim of the Clough , Then let him passe , he shall doe well enough . He that will passe into an Ordinary , Let him take heede to deale with cardes and dice , Lest whatsoeuer mony in he carry , Ere he beware he loose it with a trice , And all too late repentance learne the price , To know how he that passeth in purse-full , And goes out empty , passeth for a Gull . He that desires to passe vnto the seas , Let him take heede his ship be good and tight , Let him prouide for all things for his ease , And to withstand both wind and weathers spight , And by his Compas keepe his course aright : Be wary of the shelfes , the rockes , and sands , And fall not rashly into pyrats hands . But if he passe within a leaking ship , Ill victualld , and worse furnisht for defence , And thinke a thousand leagues is but a skip , And by the want of wits experience , Prouide for nothing that may shunne offence : Such one may happen well to passe from shore ▪ But once at sea , may passe to land no more . But he that seekes to passe by sea or land , To Court , or Country , for his best auaile , Let him thus much for certaine vnderstand , That if his purse the better not preuaile , His fortune will in many courses faile : For a good purse will make a man to passe , To many places where he neuer was . But if ( alas ) he he passe purse pennilesse , In this vile world he shall haue little grace , But with a heauy heart all comfortlesse , Among the Beggars take a sory place : Oh this same Gold hath such a glorious face , That in false Angells , he that heedes not well , Will headlong passe his wicked soule to hell . But , he that faine would passe to Paradise , Must learne to passe from all these worldly pleasures , For vnto heau'n what heart can passe his eies , That is intangled in this worlds treasure ? No , where the World hath on the Soule made seisure , As hardly it can passe to heau'n on hie , As can a Camell through a Needles eie . Then do not passe the boundes of honestie , Of wit , of reason , nor of amitie . Of law , of iustice nor of equitie , Nor the true grounds of Trueths diuinitie : But in the worship of the Trinitie , Humble thy soule vnto the Deitie , And passe vnto the heau'ns felicitie .

PASQVILS Precession . A Loggerheaded asse that hath no wit , A rascall knaue that hath no honesty , A foule il fauour'd filthie baggage Tit , A wicked Iudge that hath no equity , And a rich man that hath no charity , A faithlesse friend , and from a fruitlesse tree , The Lord of heau'n and earth deliuer me . A gracelesse child , and an vnquiet wife , An idle seruant , and a priuy theefe , A long delay , and an vngodly life , A helplesse care , and a consuming griefe , And from despaire that neuer finds reliefe , And from the drone that robbes the hony be , The Lord of heau'n and earth deliuer me . A prowd companion , and a prating iacke ; A cogging marchant and a carelesse debter , A queasie stomacke , and a broken sacke , A filthy hand , and an ill-fauourd letter , And an ill mind that meanes to be no better , And from a bribe insteede of a due fee , The Lord of heau'n and earth deliuer me . A blind phisition , and a sluttish cooke , Vnholsome porridge , and vnsauory bread , A babish story , and a foolish booke , A baggige humor , and a beetle head , A smoaky chamber , and a lowsie bed : And from such neighbours as cannot agree , The Lord of heau'n and earth deliuer me . A Tyrant prince , and a rebellious subiect , A bloudy soldiour , and a coward leader , An Owles eie-sight and an vgly obiect , An obscure line , and an vnlearned Reader , A sergeant , iailour , hangman , and beheader , And from the fruit of the three cornerd tree , Good Lord of heau'n and earth deliuer me . A resty hackney , and a durtie way , A stormy tempest , and a leaking ship , An idle quarrell , and a drunken f●ay , A dogged queane that euer hangs the lip , A iade that will not stirre without a whip , A blinded eie that can nor will not see , From these the Lord of heau●n deliuer me . A lazie huswife and a hatkney Gill , A crooked finger , and a cramped foote , A hasty wit , and an vnbrideled will , A broken shooe , and an ill fauourd boote , A poisning weede , and an vnwholesome roote , And from the buzzing of the humble Bees , The Lord of heau'n and earth deliuer me . A mouth that slauers , and a stinking breath , A craftie cripple , and a sullen queane , A stinking puddle , and a moorish heath , A dogge that is too fatte , a horse too leane , A maide that will not keepe her dairie cleane , A blow vpon the elbow , and the knee , From each of these the Lord deliuer me . A fleering laughter , and a faithlesse heart , A creeping curtsie , and a cankred mind , An idle study , and a needlesse art , A Northerne tempest , and an Easterne wind , And from a Curte , that bites a man behind . And from a Glasse of an il-fauour'd blee , The Lord of heau'n and earth deliuer me . To keepe too long among vngodly people , To fit mine humor vnto euery fashion ▪ To seeke to build a house vpon Paules Steeple , To dwell too long vpon a peeuish fashion , To follow ill , and hate a reformation , To learne the rules where such ill lessons be , From all such trifles , the Lord deliuer me . To make an idoll of a painted face , And to attend vpon a golden asse , To seeke to do the honest mind disgrace , And bring a kind of wicked world to passe , Or seeke to braue it with a face of brasse : To leape the Tems , or clime a rotten tree , From all such trifles , the Lord deliuer me . From standing too much in mine owne conceit ▪ And giuing credite vnto euery tale , From being caught with euery foolish baite , From setting of my credite all to sale , From leauing of a nut to take a shale , From the poore line of the fooles petegree , The Lord of heau'n and earth deliuer me . From fury , franzie , and imprisonment , From fine Maid Marian and her Morris dance , From the deseruing of due punishment , From bond , from statute , and recognisance , From trusting too much vnto fickle chance , From vnkind brothers that cannot agree , The Lord of heau'n and earth deliuer me . From taking pleasure in a villanie , From carelesse hearing of a sound aduise , From sorting with the wicked companie , From setting vertue at too low a price , From loosing too much coine at cardes and dice , From being bound till folly make me free , The Lord of heau'n and earth deliuer me . From laying plottes for to abuse a friend , From being by a cunning knaue beguild , From working humors to a wicked end , From getting of a filthy whore with child , From dwelling in a house that is vntilde , From surfeting within a cherrie tree , From all such toies , good Lord deliuer me . From a conspiracie of wicked knaues , A flight of buzzards , and a denne of theeues , A knot of villaines , and a crue of slaues , And from the patches on the beggars sleeues , And from the spoile that gratious spirits greeues , And from the foole can neither thriue nor thee , The blessed Lord of heau'n deliuer me . From the illusions of the filthy diuell , From too much hunting after worldly pleasure , And from delighting in an inward euill , And too much louing of this wordly treasure , And from taking leuell by vnlawfull measure ▪ And from the babies foolish A , B , C , The blessed Lord of heau'n deliuer me . To thinke to wash an Ethiopan white , To loue too long , and not be loued againe , To do him wrong that alwaies doth me right , To play the knaue with him that meaneth plaine , And to continue in so v●le a vaine , From all such notes where such instructions be . The blessed Lord of heau'n deliuer me . An old blind cat that cannot catch a mouse , A flinging curtoll , and a kicking mare , A wife that neuer loues to keepe her house , A lazy hound that will not hunt a hare , The shame that falles out with the begars share , And from the foole that will good fortune flee , The blessed Lord of heau'n deliuer me . From all infections both of soule and body , And from the curelesse crosses of the mind , From being too much inward with a noddy : Or to a brother or a friend vnkind , Or changing humors hourely with the wind , From an ill fruit of an accursed tree , The blessed Lord of heau'n deliuer me . From making bargaines till I liue by losse , And hoording come to eate into my heart , To walke the Woodcocke to the Beggars crosse , Or to be scholler at the diuells art , To hurt my soule with an infernall smart : From all such humors where such errors be , The blessed Lord of heau'n deliuer me . From beating of my braines about a bable , From thinking of no end ere I beginne , From giuing eare vnto an idle fable : And poasting iournies for a puddings skinne , And loosing all while other men do winne : From eating apples vpon A dams tree , The blessed Lord of heau'n deliuer me . A rainy euening , and a foggy morne , A barren ground , and an vnkindly yeere , A nittie haire , a garment ouer worne , A market towne where all things are too deere , A churles bare table without bread or beere , The wofull issue of a Iudas fee , The blessed Lord of heau'n deliuer me . From restie bacon , and ill salted beefe , From raw sodde cunger , and ill rosted eeles , From a quicke witte , that hath his tongue too briefe , And from the blaines , and kibes vpon my heeles , And from a madding wit , that runnes on wheeles , From all such rules as out of order be , The blessed Lord of heau'n deliuer me . From a delight in hunting after newes , Or louing idle tales of Robin Hood , And from too much frequenting of the stewes , Or ventring farre but for a little good , And take a puddle for a princely flood , From such blind iests as best with fooles agree , The blessed Lord of heau'n deliuer me . To slander Honor , Vertue to disgrace , Offend Discretion , Learning to abuse , Good labours enuy , and their worth deface : To follow follie , wisedome to refuse : To leaue the best , and all the worst to chuse , To euery Asse to giue the cappe and knee , From all such errors Lord deliuer me . From writing libells against men of state , And medlnig with matters aboue my selfe , Where I am lou'd , to giue iust cause of hate , Or to be busie with a monkie elfe , Or carelesse runne my ship vpon a shelfe : From such ill courses , where no good I see , The blessed Lord of heau'n deliuer me . From loosing too much time in making loue , From trusting to an idle humour'd dreame : From spending too much mony how to proue , To make a boate to ouergo the streame , To kill my selfe to purge a little fleame : From such odde vaines where such deuises be , The blessed Lord of heau'n deliuer me . From a prowd woodcocke , and a peeuish wife , A sleepy maiden , and a wanton hagge , A poyntlesse needle , and a broken knife : A house vnfurnisht , and an emptie bagge , A fidling baggige , and a wicked wagge : And from the woods where wolues and foxes be , The blessed Lord of heau'n deliuer me . The French Verola , and the English feuer , The Irish ague , and the Spanish pippe , The lungs consumption , and the rotten liuer , The cursed fall into a fellons trippe , And from the ladder by the rope to skippe , Where execution makes the fatall tree , The blessed Lord of heau'n deliuer me . To diue into a pocket for a purse , Or steale a horse out of a pasture field , To loue to sweare and lie , and ban and curse , And stubbornely to no good counsell yeeld : But vnder fortune all my forces shield , From all such rules where reasons ruines be , The blessed Lord of heau'n deliuer me . From cousoning of my selfe with too much kindnes , From slipping fortune when it doth befall me , From being led by wilfull reasons blindnes , And keeping backe when fortune seemes to call me , From all such passions as may so apall me , Where blinded eies cannot their blessings see , The blessed Lord of heau'n deliuer me . To be commanded by a currish minde , And to , be flattred by a foolish knaue : And to be crossed by a wicked winde , And to be followed with a filthy slaue , And to be harbourd in a hellish caue : From such ill courses ▪ where such crosses be , The blessed Lord of heau'n deliuer me . From thriftlesse spending , and from fruitlesse paines , From sencelesse studies , and from gracelesse deedes , From helplesse torments , and from witlesse vaines , And from all those follies , that such humors feedes , And from the sinne that endlesse sorrow breedes , And from all spots in my fowle soule to see , Oh blessed Lord of heau'n deliuer me . A moath that eates into the finest cloth , A wicked worme that hath a deadly sting , A poysned potion , with a sugred froth , A wicked charme , within a Diuels Ring : And from the Syrenes when they fall to sing : From such ill creatures as so cursed be , The blessed Lord of heau'n deliuer me . A mowse within a daintie peece of cheese , A nest of rattes within a linnen chest , A snake within a hiue of hony Bees , A woolfe that eates into a wounded breast , And from his curse that neuer can be blest : From all such ill , wherein no good can be , The blessed Lord of heau'n deliuer me . From an olde kow that kicketh downe her milke , And a yong colt , that will his rider cast , From a thiefes halter , though it be of silke : And from a diall that doth goe too fast , And from a pardon when the paine is past , And from confession vnder Tiborne tree , The blessed Lord of heau'n deliuer me . From too long hoping after dead mens shooes , And from betraying of an honest trust , From lacke of care , either to gaine or loose , And from a conscience that may proue vniust , And from a wicked and vnlawfull lust : From all such courses where no comforts be , The blessed Lord of heau'n deliuer me . From a stale peece of flesh that is twice sodden , And from a bloud raw rosted peece of beefe , And from a crauen henne that is crow trodden , And from a bawd , a whore , a rogue , a thiefe , And from home-taking an hearts inward griefe , And from the ill wherein no good can be , The blessed Lord of heau'n deliuer me . From blindnes , lamenesse , deafnes , cramps , and stitches , And from the gowt , the chollicke and the stone , And from inchanting charmes of wicked witches , From coughes , and rhewmes , and aches in the bone , And from the griefe of loue to liue alone : And from all agues whatsoe're they be , The blessed Lord of heau'n deliuer me . From the forsaking of the word of God , To follow idle humour'd fopperies , To scorne the scourging of the heau'nly rod , From doing of my selfe such iniuries , To bring my soule into such miseries , And from all sinne within my soule to see , The gratious God of heau'n deliuer me . When I am olde , and sicke , and lame and poore , And crucified a thousand sundry wayes , And death beginnes to ope my fatall doore , To call me home from my vnhappy dayes , And all my passions then must end their playes , Then from all euill , and both now and then , The Lord of heau'n deliuer me , Amen .

PASQVILS Prognostication WHen that a churle doth grow so prodigal , He cares not how he throw away his coyne , And a wise man growes so fantasticall , As with a foole will for his counsell ioyne , And that a Fencer layes away his foyne , And a yong spend-thrift falles to purchase land , I feare that Doomes day will be hard at hand . When that a Lawyer leaues to take a fee . And that a trades man will not sell for gaine , When euery Iudge will so indifferent be , Euen as he sees to shew the matter plaine , When that the world is growne to such a vaine , My Muse doth feare in her best ayming markes , The skie will fall , and then we shall haue Larkes . When humblenesse is praisde , and pride abated , Vertue is honour'd , and foule vice defaced , Goodnesse beloued , wickednesse is hated , Wisedome aduanced , folly is displaced , Truth is esteem'd and falshood is disgraced , The rich men giue their treasure to the poore , I feare me Doomes day will be at the doore . When filthy Dowdes will leaue to paint their faces , And lacke an Apes leaue ietting like a man , And Brokers debters feare no Sergeants maces , Nor Geese will take the riuer with the Swan , Nor greedie turne-spittes licke the dripping pan : Nor that a knaue will giue a foole the scoffe , I feare me doomes day will not be farre off . When giddie heads lay by their idle humors , And wicked wittes will leaue their villanie , And gracelesse tongues will cease vnciuill Rumors , And yong men follow no il companie , Nor maides be sicke of the sweete Timpanie : But constant hearts for very loue will die , I feare me doomes day then will be too nie . When idle louers leaue for to dissemble , And faithfull friends are worthily regarded , And Vertues beautie doth the sunne resemble , While clowdie mistes are vtterly disswaded , And careful seruice kindly is rewarded , While honor liues , where loue can neuer die , I feare me doomes day will be very nigh . When old men liue til they be yong againe , And yong men fal in age before their time , When Poets Muses leaue to frump and faine , And blossomes loose the beautie of their prime , And no man falls that takes in hand to clime , And he that may be rich will needes be poore , I feare me Doomes day then is at the doore . When that a beggar braues it with a King , And that a coward puts a souldier downe , And that a Waspe is bred without a sting , And that a Knight must creepe vnto a Clowne , And heart sicke Honor falls into a swowne , And careful hearts for lacke of comfort die , I feare me doomes day wil be then too nie . When cankred coine a Kingdome may command , And many thousands die for one mans ease , And that a poore man may not right demand , And honest hearts must wicked humors please , Til sorrow too much on the soule do ceaze , When thus the world with woe is ouergone , I feare that Doomes day will be comming on . When Cockes of game begin to leaue their fight , And old fooles will not with yong bables play , The stately Eagle loose her lofty height , And wise men fall to keepe fooles holiday , When that the world doth grow to such a stay , It makes me feare that much about that yeere , The day of Doome wil sure be very neere . When that the Lion doth begin to roare , The wolfe to houle , the snarling curre to barke , The buzzard Kite too neere the sunne to soare , The Bunting striue to mount aboue the Larke , My Muse doth find in her best aiming marke , That neere vpon that yeere she feares to see , The comming of the day of Doome wil be . When that a flie vpon a galde horse backe , Can make fooles laugh to see how he can sit , And when a pedler in a beggars packe , Can carrie ware , for his poore trade vnfit , And with his purse can go away with it , And Epicures will leaue their belly-cheere , I feare me then the day of Doome is neere . When Iohn a Noddes will be a Gentleman , Because his worship weares a velvet coate , And euery Piper , a Musitian , Because he hits vpon an idle noate , And Beggars care not for the King a groate . When that the foole will giue himselfe the scoffe , I feare me Doomes day cannot be farre off . When children teach their parents how to speake , And seruants learne their masters to command , When strong men will be guided by the weake , And Rascall driue the male Deere downe the lawnde , And Beggars fill the misers emptie Mawnd , And dead men rise aliue out of the Beere , I feare me Doomes day wil be very neere . When conies hunt the dogges out of the warren , And partridges beate hawkes out of the field , And deinty faulcons feede on filthy carren , And souldiers take the penne , and leaue the field , And that a prince will to his subiects yeeld : Then by some rules my Muse doth vnderstand , She biddes me feare , that doomes day is at hand . When such as loue their eies will needes be blind , And such as heare will seeme to stoppe their eares , And fathers to their children are vnkind , Because they thinke that they are none of theirs , When they haue wiues , and other make their heires , When such hard pointes the world doth stand vpon , I feare me doomes day will be comming on . When that the world is set vpon a will , And purses carie matters as they list , When all the grace is in the golden skill , And few or none that cares for had I wist , And each one thinkes he walketh in a mist , When all these courses fall out in a yeere , I feare me Doomes day will be very neere . When idle quarrels breede vngodly warres , And subtil peace deceiues a simple heart , When men do shoote their arrowes at the starres , And neuer thinke of death his sodaine dart , When thus the world doth take the foolish part , When all good thoughts are flung vpon the floore , I feare me Doomes day will be at the doore . When he that puts himselfe into good ragges , Thinkes himselfe halfe a prince for his apparrell , When he that hath the chest of golden bagges , Beleeues he hath the world within a barrell , When folly thus with better wit will quarrell , While wisedome in the world hath much disgrace , I feare me Doomes day will come on apace . When lands and bagges do marry wealth to wealth , And want and vertue must go downe the wind , When few or none regard the spirites health , While wicked humors leade away the mind , When the poore world is in this pitteous kind : While hellish spirits in their pride do stand , I feare me Doomes day will be hard at hand . When Charing crosse and Paules do meete , And breake their fast in Friday streete , And Ware and Waltam go to Kent , To purchase lands and gather rent , And Easter falles afore the Lent : Then , if my Table doe not lie , The day of doome will sure be nie . When woodcockes build in dawcockes nestes , And Robin Hood is rise againe , And misers churles make merry feasts , And merchants loose that they may gaine , When once the world is in that vaine , Then do not thinke but nigh that yeere , The day of doome is very neere . When euery child his father knowes , And euery man will loue his wife , And women sweare to be no shrowes , But husbands leade a quiet life , While kindnesse cuts off euery strife : Then without doubt this build vpon , The day of doome is comming on . When Newgate is without a knaue , And Bridewell found without a whoore , A galley found without a slaue , A Farmers barne without a floore , And not a beggar at the doore : Then let both time and reason trie ▪ And if that doomes day be not nie . When theeues begin to leaue to steale , And Iades will leaue their kicking trickes , And fooles their secrets will conceale , And maides will vse no setting stickes , Nor blacke thorne carrie pointed prickes , Then do not thinke but in that yeere , The day of doome will sure be neere . When old men care not for their health , And faire yong women wish to die , And rich men throw away their wealth , And Rascalls leaue their beggarie , And knaues will leaue their knauerie , Then thinke as I haue said before , The day of Doome is at the doore . When wanton eies breede wicked minds , And wilfull heads breede wofull hearts , While indiscretion nature blinds , To scorne the rules of Reasons Artes , And headlong fall into foule partes , Til had-I-wist make folly crie , Then thinke the day of Doome is nie . When women will no malice shew , And men are free from envies fault , Who may be high , wil be below , And beefe keepe sweete that hath no salt , And Beere is brewed with musty Malt , Then do beleeue that truth will trie , The day of Doome will sure be nie . When Gamsters at Primero rests , Will put out all their purses eie , And warres do grow to be but iests , Where many fight , and few do die , A spider will not eate a flie , Then by my rule I vnderstand , The day of Doome will be at hand . When Souldiers led into a field , Do see their leaders runne at a stay , The valiant to the coward yeeld , That doth his honour steale away , When the world is at such a fray : I say but as I said before , Thinke Doomes day will be at the doore . When that a Cocke wil craue his hen , Because shee is not of his breede , And boies will be as good as men , When schollers teach their Masters reade , An hearb is spoiled by a weede , Then by my rules experience , The day of Doome is not farre hence . When no good nurture can amend ill manners , Nor daily preaching draw the world to God , But sinne and shame display their open banners , While he on earth begins to make abode , When holy thoughts are wholy ouertrode , While faith and troth do feare to shew their face , I feare me Doomes day will come on apace . When that a man must seeke to please his wife , For feare the cuckoe sing vpon his head , A woman will be wearie of her life , Because she cannot bring a foole to bed , When siluer thus must be exchangde for led , By such true rules as I haue rightly scand , I feare me Doomes day will be hard at hand . When wicked minds will in their humors dwell , And sinne is not ashamde to shew her face , And Atheists are resolude to go to hell , Because they haue no feeling thought of Grace , When that the world is in this wofull case , And death and sorrow do begin their song , I feare the day of Doome will not be long . When men and women gree like dogges and catts , Because the world is full of wicked natures , And euery towne is full of mice and rattes , That do deuoure the foode of better creatures , While fooles make idolls of ill-fauoured features , When we are thus poore , people to beg on vs , I feare me doomes day will come stealing on vs . When that a cat will eate no milke , And that a fox the goose forsakes , And courtiers leaue their wearing silke , And snow doth leaue to fall in flakes , And one man marres that other makes . Then doth my Table say that yeere , The day of Doome will sure be neere . When fishes leaue to play with baites , And buzzards leaue to beate the wind , And knaues will leaue with cunning sleights , For to deceiue a simple mind , When that the world is in this kind , Be sure this note to build vpon , The day of Doome is comming on . When morrice dancers leaue their bells , The foole his bable by will lay , And oisters breede without their shells , And that the mice with cattes will play , While wise men make fooles holy day : Then tell me if my table lie , That saies that doomes day will be nie . When that a Kite the Chicken feares , The wolfe will not come neere the Lamb , The frogs will be as big as Beares , The Ewe will not abide the Ramme , A Calfe wil leaue to sucke the Damme . Then do I by my table find , That doomes day is not farre behind . When youth will not the wantons play , And age hath sworne he will not dote , And wil and wit are at a fray , While beggarie is not worth a groate , It is a certaine rule to note , That very much vpon that yeere , The day of doome approcheth neere . When that a beggar braues a King , And fishes swimme without their sinnes , An Owle wil teach a Larke to sing , And fishers leaue to lay their ginnes , When puddings creepe out of their skinnes , Then thinke as I haue said before , The day of doome is at the doore . When Swallowes leaue to feede on Flies , And Asses looke into the ayre , And Mowles begin to ope their eies , And two fooles do not make a paire , And Basenesse sits in Honors chaire , And the Lord be seruant to a Groome , Then thinke vpon the day of doome . When fire begins to leaue his heate , No coolenesse in the water is , The hungry will refuse their meate , And louers leaue to coll and kisse , And all is well that was amisse : Then doth my perfect rule descrie , The day of doome wil sure be nigh . When couetousnesse can infect a King , And pride is set vpon a beggars heart , And too much want the honest mind doth wring , While helplesse sorrow breedes the spirits smart , When thus the diuell ginnes to play his part , To fill the world with such vnhappy fare , I feare doomes day before we be aware . When furies flie like sparkles in the ayre , With fire and sword , to fil the world with bloud , And feareful soules are neere vnto despaire , While gracelesse hearts can see no hope of good , But endlesse sorrow is the sinners food : When thus the diuell in the world doth sit , Doomes day wil come , although it be not yet . FINIS .