A Short answere to the boke called Beware the cat This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A20214 of text S2990 in the English Short Title Catalog (STC 664.5). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 4 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 A20214 STC 664.5 ESTC S2990 29641020 ocm 29641020 28050 2240900659

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A20214) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 28050) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1861:12) A Short answere to the boke called Beware the cat 1 sheet ([1] p.). s.n., [London : ca. 1570] Place and date of publication suggested by STC (2nd ed.). Reproduction of original in the Society of Antiquaries. eng Baldwin, William, ca. 1518-1563? -- Beware the cat. Beware the cat. Broadsides -- London (England) -- 16th century. eebo A Short answere to the boke called Beware the cat [no entry] 1570 1 678 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2000-00 Assigned for keying and markup 2002-01 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2002-02 Sampled and proofread 2002-02 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2002-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A short Answere to the boke called : Beware the Cat , To the ientil reder : harti salutacions , Desiring thee to knoe : Baldewins straunge faschions And if in aunsering : I appere sum what quick , Thinke it not with out cause . his taunts be rive & thick Where as ther is a boke , called : beware the cat , The veri truith is so , that Stremer made not that , Nor no suche false fabels : fell ever from his pen , Nor from his hart or mouth : as knoe mani honest men But wil ye gladli knoe , who made that boke in dede , One Wylliam Baldewine . God graunt him wel to spede God graunt him mani new yeres , prosperite and helth As he hath in this thing : farderd the Comon welth With large lesure , browne studi : he musing all alone Devised by what meanes : he might win the whetstone Every thing almost : in that boke is as tru , As that at Midsomer : in London it doth snu . Every thing almost : in that boke is as tru , As that his nose to my dock : is ioyned fast with glu , Put vp your pipes Baldewine : if you can make no better , Many talk more wittili : that knoe not one letter , Put on your cap Baldewine : & kepe your brayn pan warme Least ye go to Bedlem : if suche toyes in you swarme Rede this litel short Rime : Baldewinken , til more cum : And with Stremers excrements : be bold to noint your gum In stede of Diaglum , in stede of Coloquintida , In stede of ru barbarum , or casia fistula . If the maker hereof : had bin at more lesure . Ye had had from his hande : a more precious tresure But in the meane season : content your selfe with this , For your Bagagical boke , a warme a. r. s. you may kys . O r els a payre of stockes : if officers do wel , You hurt a harmeles man : which no such tales did tel , As ye were disposed : loude lyes on him to make , Which many witti things : writes for his countreys sake . Alas I wolde to God : your boke were halfe so good , I wysh you no more harme : nor to your swete hart bloud The pith of this paper , ( if any man in it loke ) Is to deni utterli , that Stremer made that boke The boke ( of ten leaves ) was printed every worde Er Stremer saw any pece , to wipe a way a t. o. r. d. Tergendis natibus , som thought his boke was good Or to cari spiceti , to cherische a sick mans bloud . Therfore ientyl reder : beware what credence thou ghive The truth here conteyned : thou mayst boldly belive Baldwins toyes do belong : to thee or any other As well as they do touche Stremer , his pore brother . And now Iuge good hirers : whether he be a good man Of whom I write these things : as truli as I can . If that be not a grete faute , so to hurt a mans name , Without sufficient cause : what crime shuld a man blame ? Omnia si perdas : famam servare memento : Qua semel amissa postea nullus eris , If thou lese all ( sayth he ) yet reserve honest fame If that be ones clene gon : go home and suck thy dame . I am loth for to rayle , as Baldwin hath begun For so betwine vs both : a fayre threde shuld be spun This miche I haue writen : that the truith shuld be knowen And that the falsite : shuld quite be ouerthro wen. Finis .