The scholars petition for play-dayes, in stead of Holy-dayes exhibited to the right worshipfull, the master, wardens, and assistants of the right worshipfull Company of Merchant-Tailors, by the scholars of their school, in the parish of Laurence Pountney London, Martii 21. an. 1644. being the day of their publick examination. After divers other exercises in Latine, Greek, and lastly in English, the petitioner, in behalf of himself and his fellowes, thus addressed himself to the company This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A94246 of text R210356 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.10[23]). 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. 3 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 2017 A94246 Wing S868 Thomason 669.f.10[23] ESTC R210356 99869164 99869164 162564 2240946050

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A94246) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 162564) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 246:669f10[23]) The scholars petition for play-dayes, in stead of Holy-dayes exhibited to the right worshipfull, the master, wardens, and assistants of the right worshipfull Company of Merchant-Tailors, by the scholars of their school, in the parish of Laurence Pountney London, Martii 21. an. 1644. being the day of their publick examination. After divers other exercises in Latine, Greek, and lastly in English, the petitioner, in behalf of himself and his fellowes, thus addressed himself to the company 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London : 1645] Imprint from Wing. In verse -- "Since mis-call'd Holy-dayes, profanely spent,". With engraved border. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800. A94246 R210356 (Thomason 669.f.10[23]). civilwar no The scholars petition for play-dayes, in stead [sic] of Holy-dayes: exhibited to the right worshipfull, the master, wardens, and assistants anon. 1645 1 504 1 0 0 0 0 0 20 C The rate of 20 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2007-06 Assigned for keying and markup 2007-06 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-08 Sampled and proofread 2007-08 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
The Scholars Petition for Play-dayes , in stead of Holy-dayes : Exhibited To the right Worshipfull , the Master , Wardens , and Assistants of the right Worshipfull Company of Merchant-Tailors , by the Scholars of their School , in the Parish of Laurence Pountney LONDON , Martii 21. an. 1644. being the day of their publick Examination .

After divers other Exercises in Latine , Greek , and lastly in English , the Petitioner , in behalf of himself and his fellowes , thus addressed himself to the Company : — yet one word more wee crave , to shew what griev's us , Wherein wee pray your Goodnesse to relieve us .

SInce mis-call'd Holy-dayes , profanely spent , Are justly now cashier'd by Parliament ; For that the Scarlet garment which they wore , Was but a rubrick't-badge o' th' ROMANE WHORE ; Which therefore now must mourn in sable black , Changing her colour i' th' next ALMANACK ; Guilty before of scandalous abuses : Which notwithstanding yet the harmelesse Muses Us'd only for their sportfull intermission Of toylesome Studies ; not for Superstition . " For hee that made all things , did not make Man " Of stone , or steel , or brasse CORINTHIAN ; " But lodg'd our Soules in a frail earthen mass , " Thinner then water , britler then the glass . " Hoe know's our lives are by nought sooner spent , " Then having still our Soules and Bodies bent . " A Field , left fallow some few yeares , will yield " The richer crop , when it again is till'd . " A River , stopped by a sluce , a space , " Run's after rougher , and a swifter pace . " A Bow , a while unbent , will after cast " His shafts the farther ▪ and them fix more fast . " A Souldier , that a season still hath lain , " Com's with more fury to the field again . " Even so our Body , while , to gather breath , " From paines sometimes at rest it sojourneth ; " It recollect's its powers , and with more cheere " Fall's fresh again unto its first cariere . To you therefore we make our Common Prayer , That , weighing the premisses , you would repair This dolefull dammage ; and , in compensation Of this sad loss , appoint , for recreation , Some equipollent seasons , as will fit Seem to your Wisedomes best for to permit . Thus your poor Orators devoutly pray , * * — Graio Schola nomine dicta est , Justa laboriferis tribuantur ut otia Musis . That you sequester would some times for Play . O let not then our Masters be our Jailors ! So shall we ever pray for MERCHANT-TAILORS . This our Petition is , which you shall see Subscrib'd with hands two hundred seventy three . Auson.
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