THE
ANTS
Tale
,
when
he
was
a
Plough-man
.
I
Was
sometimes
(
most
chaste
Lady
Nightingale
,
or
rather
Quéene
Philomell
the
rauisht
)
a
browe
melting
husband-man
:
to
be
man
and
husband
,
is
to
be
a
poore
Mayster
of
many
rich
cares
:
which
if
he
cannot
subiect
and
kéepe
vnder
,
he
must
looke
for
euer
to
vndergoe
as
many
miseries
,
as
the
houres
of
his
yeares
contain
minutes
such
a
man
I
was
,
and
such
a
husband
,
for
I
was
linked
in
marriage
,
my
havings
was
small
,
and
my
meanes
lesse
;
yet
charge
came
on
me
,
ere
I
knew
how
to
keepe
it
:
yet
did
I
all
my
indeuours
had
a
Plough
and
Land
to
employ
it
:
Fertill
enough
if
it
were
manured
,
and
for
tillage
,
I
was
neuer
held
a
Truant
.
But
my
destruction
and
the
ruine
of
all
painfull
hushand-men
about
me
,
began
by
the
prodigall
downfall
of
my
young
Landlord
,
whose
father
,
grandfather
,
and
great
Grandfather
for
many
Generations
had
bene
Lords
of
the
Towne
wherin
I
dwelt
,
and
many
other
Townes
néere
adioyning
:
to
all
which
belonged
fayre
Commons
for
the
comfort
of
the
poore
,
libertie
of
fishing
helpe
of
Fuell
;
by
brush
and
vnderwood
neuer
deny●
till
the
old
deuourer
of
virtue
,
honestie
and
good
Neighbourhood
.
Death
had
made
our
Landlord
dance
after
his
Pipe
which
is
so
common
,
that
euery
one
knowes
the
way
though
,
they
make
small
account
of
it
.
Well
d●e
he
did
,
and
as
soon
as
he
was
laid
in
his
Gra●e
,
the
Bell
might
well
haue
towld
for
hospitality
and
good
housekeeping
,
for
whether
they
fell
sick
with
him
and
died
,
and
so
were
buried
.
I
know
not
but
I
am
sure
in
our
towne
they
were
neuer
seene
since
:
nor
that
I
can
hear
of
in
any
other
part
;
especially
about
vs
they
are
unpossible
to
be
found
.
Well
,
our
Landlord
being
dead
,
we
had
his
Heire
gentle
ynough
and
fayre
conditioned
,
rather
promising
at
first
his
father's
vertues
,
then
the
worlds
villanies
,
but
he
was
so
accussomed
to
wild
and
vnfruitfull
company
about
the
Court
and
London
,
(
whither
he
was
sent
by
his
sober
father
to
practise
Ciuilitie
and
maners
)
that
in
the
Country
he
would
scarce
kéepe
,
)
till
his
father's
body
was
layd
in
the
cold
Earth
,
but
as
soone
as
the
hastie
funerall
was
solemnized
,
from
vs
he
posted
,
discharging
all
his
old
father's
servants
(
whose
Beards
were
euen
frost
bitten
with
Age
)
and
was
attended
onely
by
a
Monkey
and
a
Mar●●oset
;
the
one
being
an
ill
fac'st
fellow
,
as
variable
as
New-fangle
for
fashions
;
the
other
an
imitator
of
any
thing
howeuer
villanous
;
but
vtterly
destitute
of
all
goodnes
:
with
this
French
Page
and
Italianate
Seruingman
,
was
our
young
Landlord
onely
waited
on
;
and
all
to
saue
charges
in
Seruingmen
,
to
pay
it
out
in
Harlots
,
and
we
poore
men
had
newes
of
a
farre
greater
expense
within
lesse
then
a
Quarter
:
for
we
were
sent
for
to
London
,
and
found
our
great
Landlord
in
a
litle
Rooms
about
the
Strand
,
who
told
vs
,
that
whereas
we
had
liued
Tenants
at
will
,
and
might
in
his
forefathers
days
bene
hourely
turnd
out
,
be
putting
on
a
better
Conscience
to
vs-ward
,
infanded
to
make
vs
leases
for
yeares
;
and
for
advice
twixt
him
and
vs
,
he
had
made
choyse
of
a
Lawyer
,
a
Mercer
,
and
a
Merchant
,
to
whom
he
was
much
beholding
,
who
that
morning
were
appointed
to
●●ete
in
the
Temple
Church
,
Temple
&
Church
,
both
one
in
name
,
made
vs
hope
of
a
holy
méeting
;
but
there
is
an
old
prouerbe
,
The
nearer
the
Church
,
the
farther
from
God
.
To
approve
which
saying
,
we
met
the
Mercer
and
the
Merchant
,
that
louing
our
Landlord
or
his
land
well
,
held
him
a
great
men
in
both
their
Books
;
some
litle
conference
they
had
,
what
the
conclusion
was
,
we
poore
men
were
not
yet
acquainted
with
,
but
being
called
at
their
leisure
and
when
they
pleased
to
think
vpon
vs
;
told
vs
,
they
were
to
dine
together
at
the
Horne
in
Fleet
street
,
being
a
house
where
their
Lawyer
resorted
:
and
if
if
we
would
there
attend
them
,
we
should
vnderstand
matter
much
for
our
good
and
in
the
meane
time
they
appointed
vs
néere
the
old
Temple
Garden
to
attend
their
Counsellor
,
whose
name
was
Maister
Prospero
,
not
the
great
Rider
of
horse
,
for
I
heard
there
was
once
such
a
one
,
but
a
more
cunning
Rider
,
who
had
rid
many
men
till
they
were
more
miserable
then
beasts
and
our
ill
hap
it
was
to
proue
his
Hackneys
:
well
though
the
issue
were
ill
,
on
we
went
to
awaite
his
Worship
,
Whose
chamber
we
found
that
morning
fuller
of
Clients
,
then
I
could
euer
see
suppliants
to
heauen
in
our
poore
parish
Church
,
and
yet
we
had
in
it
three
hundred
households
:
and
I
may
tell
it
with
reuerence
,
I
neuer
saw
more
submission
done
to
God
,
then
to
that
great
Lawyer
euery
suitor
there
offered
gold
to
this
gowned
:
Idol
,
standing
bare
headed
in
a
sharpt
set
morning
;
for
it
was
in
booted
,
Michaelmas
Terme
and
not
a
word
spoke
to
him
but
it
was
with
the
bowing
of
the
Body
and
the
submissive
flexure
of
the
knee
:
short
Tale
to
make
,
he
was
informed
of
vs
,
what
we
were
,
and
of
our
coming
vp
;
when
with
an
iron
looke
,
and
shrill
voice
,
he
began
to
speake
to
the
richest
of
our
number
,
euer
and
anon
,
yerking
out
the
word
Fines
,
which
serued
instead
of
a
full
point
to
euery
Sentence
.
But
that
word
Fines
was
no
fine
word
me-thought
,
to
please
poore
labouring
husbandmen
,
that
can
scarce
sweat
out
so
much
in
a
twelue-month
as
he
would
demand
in
a
twinkling
:
at
last
to
close
vp
the
lamentable
Tragedy
of
vs
Plough-men
enters
our
young
Landlord
;
so
metamorphosed
into
the
shape
of
a
French
Puppet
,
that
at
the
first
we
started
,
and
thought
one
of
the
Baboons
had
marched
in
,
in
man's
Apparel
,
his
head
was
dressed
vp
in
white
Feathers
like
a
Shuttle-Cock
,
which
agreed
so
well
with
his
biggeste
,
being
nothing
but
Corke
,
〈…〉
of
the
Guard
might
very
easily
haue
tossed
him
with
Battledoores
,
and
made
good
sport
with
him
in
his
Maiesties
great
Hall
:
his
doublet
was
of
a
strange
Cut
,
and
to
shew
the
fury
of
his
humor
,
the
collor
of
it
rose
vp
so
hi●
and
sharp
,
as
if
it
would
haue
cut
his
throate
by
day-light
:
his
wings
according
to
the
fashion
now
,
was
as
litle
and
deminutive
as
a
Puritan's
Ruffe
,
which
shewed
he
nere
ment
to
flie
out
of
England
,
nor
〈…〉
exployt
beyond
Sea
,
but
liue
and
die
about
London
,
though
he
b●●●
in
Finsburie
:
his
Bréeches
a
wonder
to
see
,
were
full
as
deepe
as
the
middle
of
winter
,
or
the
Roade-way
betwéene
London
and
Winchester
,
and
so
large
and
wide
withall
,
that
I
thinke
within
a
Twelue-month
,
he
might
very
well
put
all
his
lands
in
them
;
and
then
you
may
imagine
they
were
big
enough
,
when
they
would
out-reach
a
thousand
Acres
:
Moreouer
,
they
differed
so
farre
from
our
fashiond-Hose
in
the
Country
,
and
from
his
fathers
old
Gascoynes
,
that
his
backe
part
séemed
to
vs
like
a
Monster
:
the
Rolyle
of
the
Bréeches
standing
so
lowe
,
that
we
coniecturds
his
house
of
Office
Sir
Reuerence
,
stood
in
his
hams
.
All
this
while
his
French
Monkey
bore
his
Cloake
of
thrée
pounds
a
yard
,
linde
cleane
through
with
purple
Veluet
,
which
did
so
dazle
our
coarse
Eyes
,
that
we
thought
we
should
haue
bene
purblind
euer
after
:
what
with
the
prodigall
aspect
of
that
,
and
his
glorious
Rapier
&
Hangers
,
all
bost
with
Pillars
of
Golde
,
fairer
in
showe
then
the
Pillars
in
Powles
,
or
the
Tombes
at
Westminster
:
beside
it
drunke
vp
the
price
of
all
my
plough-land
in
very
pearle
,
which
stuck
as
thick
vpon
those
Hangers
,
as
the
white
Meazells
vpon
hogs
flesh
:
When
I
had
well
viewde
that
gaie
gawdy
Cloake
,
and
those
vnthrifty
wastfull
.
Hangers
,
I
muttered
thus
to
myselfs
that
is
no
Cloake
for
the
Rayne
sure
,
nor
those
no
Hangers
for
Derick
:
when
of
a
suddaine
casting
mine
eyes
lower
,
I
beheld
a
curious
payre
of
Bootes
of
King
Philips
leather
,
in
such
artificall
wrinckles
,
sets
and
plea●s
,
as
if
they
had
bene
starcht
lately
,
and
came
new
from
the
Laundresses
,
such
was
my
ignorance
and
simple
acquaintance
with
the
fashion
:
and
I
dare
sweare
my
fellowes
and
neighbours
here
,
are
all
as
ignorant
as
myselfe
:
but
that
which
struck
vs
most
into
admiration
,
vpon
those
fantastie
all
Bootes
,
stood
such
huge
and
wide
tops
which
so
swallowed
vp
his
t●●●●s
,
that
had
be
sworn
as
other
Gallants
did
,
this
common
Oath
would
I
might
sinke
〈◇〉
&
stand
,
all
his
body
might
very
well
haue
sunke
downe
,
and
been
damned
in
his
bootes
.
Lastly
,
he
walked
the
chamber
with
such
a
pestilent
Gingle
,
that
his
Spurs
ouer
squeaked
the
Lawyer
,
and
made
him
reach
his
voice
three
notes
:
aboue
his
Fee
:
but
after
we
had
spied
the
Rowles
of
his
Spures
,
how
we
blest
ourselves
,
they
did
so
much
and
so
far
excéed
the
commpasse
of
our
fashion
,
that
they
looked
more
like
the
forerunners
of
wheel-barrowes
:
thus
was
our
young
Landlord
accoutred
,
in
such
a
strange
and
prodigall
shape
,
that
it
amounted
to
aboue
two
yeares
rent
in
apparell
.
At
last
approach
the
Mercer
and
the
Merchant
,
two
notable
.
Arch
trades-men
,
who
had
fitted
my
young
Maister
in
Clothes
,
whilst
they
had
clothed
themselves
in
his
Acres
,
and
measured
him
out
Veluet
by
the
Thumbe
,
whilest
they
receiued
his
R●●●●wes
by
handfuls
:
for
he
had
not
so
many
yards
in
his
suit
,
as
they
had
yards
an
houses
bound
for
the
Payment
:
which
now
he
was
forced
to
passe
ouer
to
them
,
or
else
all
his
Lauds
should
be
put
to
their
book
,
and
to
their
forfeiting
neck-verse
:
so
my
you
after
〈…〉
his
〈…〉
a
Gentleman
Penfiener
,
but
his
a
Gentlman
S●●●der
a
〈…〉
Maister
Bursebell
,
the
Royall
Scriuener
,
with
Deeds
,
and
Writings
,
hanged
drawn
and
quartered
for
the
purpose
he
was
a
Valiant
Scribe
I
remember
,
his
Pen
lie
mounted
betweene
his
Ear
like
a
Tower
Gun
,
but
not
charg'd
yet
,
till
our
yong
Maister's
Patrimony
shot
off
which
was
some
third
part
of
an
how●●
after
:
By
this
time
the
Lawyer
,
the
Mercer
,
and
the
Merchant
,
were
whispring
and
consulting
together
,
about
the
writings
and
passage
of
the
land
,
in
very
déeps
and
sober
conference
;
but
our
Wise-acres
all
the
while
,
as
one
regardlesse
of
either
land
or
mony
,
not
hearkening
or
inquisitiue
after
their
subtill
and
politick
deuices
,
held
himself
very
busie
about
the
burning
of
his
Tobacco
pipe
(
as
there
is
no
Gallant
but
bath
a
Pipe
to
burne
about
London
)
though
we
poore
simple
men
neuer
heard
of
the
name
till
that
time
,
and
he
might
very
fitly
take
Tobacco
there
,
for
the
Lawyer
and
the
rest
made
him
smoake
already
:
but
to
haue
noted
the
Apish
humor
of
him
,
and
the
fantasticall
faces
he
coyed
in
the
receiuing
of
the
smoake
,
it
would
haue
made
your
Ladiship
haue
sung
nothing
but
merry
Iigs
for
a
twelue-month
after
:
one
time
.
winding
the
Pipe
like
a
Horne
at
the
Pie-corner
of
his
mouth
,
which
must
néeds
make
him
looke
like
a
Sow-gelder
,
and
another
time
scruing
his
face
like
one
of
our
Countrie
Players
,
which
must
néeds
make
him
looke
like
a
foole
;
nay
,
he
had
at
least
his
dozen
of
Faces
,
but
neuer
a
good
one
amongst
them
all
:
neither
his
fathers
face
,
nor
the
face
of
his
grandfather
,
but
yet
more
wicked
and
riotous
faces
,
then
al
the
generation
of
him
:
now
their
priuie
whisprings
and
villainous
Plots
began
to
be
drawne
to
a
conclusion
,
when
presently
they
cald
our
smoaky
Landlord
in
the
midst
of
his
draught
,
who
in
a
valiant
humor
dasht
his
Tobacco-pipe
into
the
chimney-corner
:
whereat
I
started
,
and
bekring
his
Marmoset
to
me
,
askte
him
if
those
long
white
things
did
cost
no
money
:
to
which
the
slaue
replied
very
proudly
:
Mony
!
Yes
sirr●
:
but
I
tell
thée
my
Maister
scorns
to
haue
a
thing
come
twice
to
his
mouth
.
Then
(
quoth
I
)
I
thinke
thy
Maister
is
more
choyce
in
his
mouth
,
then
in
any
member
else
:
it
were
good
if
he
vsed
that
all
his
Body
ouer
,
he
would
neuer
haue
néed
as
many
gallants
haue
,
of
any
sweating
Phissck
.
Sweating
Phisick
replyed
the
Marmoset
,
what
may
thy
meaning
be
:
Why
,
doe
not
you
Plough
men
sweate
too
?
Yes
quoth
I
,
most
of
any
men
liuing
?
but
yet
there
is
difference
betwéene
the
sweate
of
a
Plough-man
,
and
the
sweat
of
a
Gentleman
,
as
much
as
betwéen
your
Maisters
apparell
and
mine
:
for
when
we
sweate
the
land
prospers
,
and
the
Haruest
comes
in
:
but
when
a
Gentleman
sweats
,
I
wot
how
the
géere
goes
then
.
No
sooner
were
these
words
spoken
,
but
the
Marmoset
had
drawne
out
his
Poniard
halfe-way
,
to
make
a
showe
of
reuenge
:
but
at
the
smart
voice
of
the
Lawyer
he
suddainly
whipt
it
in
againe
.
Now
was
our
yong
Maister
with
one
pen-full
of
Inck
,
doing
a
farre
greater
exployt
then
all
his
forefathers
:
for
what
they
were
a
purchasing
all
their
life-time
,
he
was
now
passing
away
in
the
fourth
part
of
a
minute
:
and
that
which
many
thousand
drops
of
his
Grandfather's
browes
did
painfully
striue
for
one
drop
now
of
a
Scriueners
Iack-horne
did
easily
passe
ouer
.
A
dash
of
a
pen
stood
for
a
thousand
Acres
:
how
quickly
they
were
dasht
in
the
mouth
by
our
young
Landlords
prodigall
fist
,
it
seemed
he
made
no
more
account
of
Acres
then
of
Acornes
;
then
were
we
cald
,
to
set
our
hands
for
witnesses
of
his
folly
:
which
we
poore
men
did
witnesse
too
much
already
:
and
because
we
were
found
ignorant
in
writing
,
and
neuer
practised
in
that
black
Art
,
which
I
might
very
fitly
tear
me
so
,
because
it
coniur'd
our
young
Maister
out
of
all
?
we
were
commanded
as
it
were
;
to
draw
any
marke
with
a
pen
which
should
signifie
as
much
as
the
best
hand
that
euer
old
Peter
Bales
hung
out
in
the
old
Baily
:
to
conclude
,
I
tooke
the
pen
first
of
the
Lawyer
,
and
turning
it
arsie
versie
,
like
no
Instrument
for
a
Plough-man
our
youngster
and
the
rest
of
the
Faction
burst
into
laughter
at
the
simplicitie
of
my
fingering
;
but
I
not
so
simple
as
they
laught
me
for
,
drew
the
picture
of
a
knauish
Emblem
,
which
was
,
A
Plough
with
the
heeles
vpward
:
signifing
thereby
,
that
the
world
was
turnd
vpside
downe
,
since
the
decease
of
my
old
Landlord
:
all
hospitality
and
good
housekéeping
kicked
out
of
doores
,
al
thriftines
and
good
husbandry
tost
into
the
Ayre
,
Ploughs
turnd
into
Trunks
,
and
Corne
into
Apparell
:
then
came
another
of
our
husband-men
to
set
his
marke
by
mine
,
be
holding
the
Pen
cleane
at
the
one
side
,
towards
the
Merchant
,
and
the
Mercer
,
shewing
that
all
went
on
their
sides
,
drew
the
forme
of
an
vnbridled
Colt
,
so
wild
and
vnruly
,
that
he
séemed
with
one
foote
to
kick
vp
the
earth
and
spoile
the
labours
of
many
toyling
Beasts
,
which
was
fitly
alluded
to
our
wild
and
vnbridled
Landlord
,
which
like
the
Colt
could
stand
vpon
no
ground
,
till
he
had
no
ground
to
stand
vpon
.
These
marks
set
down
vnder
the
shape
of
sunplicity
,
were
the
lesse
markt
with
the
eyes
Of
knauery
:
for
they
litle
dreamed
that
we
Plough-men
could
haue
so
much
Satyre
in
vs
as
to
bite
our
young
Landlord
by
the
Elbow●
:
well
this
ended
,
Maister
Bursebell
the
Calues-skin
Scriuener
,
was
Royally
handled
,
that
is
,
he
had
a
Royall
put
in
his
hand
by
the
Merchant
.
And
now
I
talke
of
Calues-skin
,
t
is
great
pittie
,
Lady
Nightingale
,
that
the
skins
of
harmlesse
and
innocent
Beasts
,
should
be
as
Instruments
to
worke
villainy
vpon
,
entangling
yong
Nouices
and
foolish
elder
brothers
which
are
caught
like
Woodcockes
in
the
nette
of
the
Law
:
t
i's
easter
for
one
of
the
greatest
Fowles
to
slide
through
the
least
hole
of
a
nette
,
then
one
of
the
least
fooles
,
to
get
from
the
lappit
of
a
Bond
:
by
this
time
the
squeaking
Lawier
began
to
re●terat
the
cold
word
Fines
,
which
struck
so
chill
to
our
hearts
,
that
it
made
them
as
cold
as
our
heeles
,
which
were
almost
frozen
to
the
floore
with
standing
.
Yea
,
quoth
the
Merchant
and
the
Mercer
,
you
are
now
Tenants
of
ours
,
all
the
right
,
title
,
and
interest
of
this
young
Gentleman
(
your
late
Land
lord
)
we
are
firmely
possessed
of
,
as
you
yourselves
are
witnesses
:
wherefore
this
is
the
conclusion
of
our
meeting
,
such
Fines
as
Maister
Prospero
here
by
the
valuation
of
the
land
,
shall
out
of
his
proper
iudgment
allot
to
vs
,
such
are
we
to
demaund
at
your
hands
,
therefore
we
refere
you
to
him
to
wayte
his
answere
,
at
the
Gentlemans
best
time
and
leasure
;
with
that
they
stifeled
two
or
thrée
Angels
in
the
Lawyers
right
hand
:
right
hand
said
I
!
which
hand
was
that
trows
yée
?
for
it
is
impossible
to
know
which
is
the
right
hand
of
a
Lawyer
,
because
there
are
but
few
Lawyers
that
haue
right
hands
,
and
those
fewe
make
much
of
them
:
so
taking
their
leaues
of
my
yong
Landlord
that
was
,
and
that
neuer
shall
be
againe
:
away
they
marched
heauier
by
a
thousand
Acres
at
their
parting
,
then
they
were
before
at
their
méeting
.
The
Lawyer
then
turning
his
Irish
face
to
vs-ward
,
willed
vs
to
attend
his
worship
the
next
Tearme
,
when
wee
should
further
vnderstand
his
pleasuree
we
poore
souls
thanked
his
worship
,
and
paid
him
his
Fée
out
in
Legs
,
when
in
sight
of
vs
,
he
embraced
our
yong
Gentleman
,
(
I
thinke
for
a
foole
and
gaue
him
many
riotous
instructions
how
to
carry
himself
:
which
he
was
prompter
to
take
,
then
the
other
to
put
into
him
,
told
him
he
must
acquaint
himself
with
many
Gallants
of
the
Innes
of
court
,
&
kéep
rank
with
those
that
spend
most
alwaies
wearing
a
bountifull
disposition
about
him
,
loftie
and
liberall
:
his
lodging
must
be
about
the
Strand
in
any
case
being
remote
from
the
Handi-craft
cent
of
the
Cittie
;
his
eating
must
be
in
some
famous
Tauerne
,
as
the
Horne
,
the
Myter
,
or
the
Mermaide
,
and
then
after
dinner
,
he
must
venture
beyond
sea
,
that
is
,
in
a
choise
paire
of
Noble-mens
Oares
to
the
Bank-side
,
where
he
must
sit
out
the
breaking
vp
of
a
Comedie
,
or
the
first
cut
of
a
Tragedie
;
or
rather
(
if
his
humour
so
serue
him
)
to
call
in
at
the
Black-fryers
,
where
he
should
see
a
neast
of
Boyes
,
able
to
rauish
a
man
.
This
said
,
our
young
Goose
cap
who
was
readie
to
embrace
such
counsell
,
thankt
him
for
his
fatherly
admonitions
,
(
as
he
termed
them
)
and
told
him
againe
,
that
he
should
not
finde
him
with
the
breach
of
any
of
them
:
(
swearing
and
protesting
he
would
kéepe
all
those
,
better
then
the
ten
Commandments
:
At
which
word
he
buckled
on
his
Rapier
and
Hangers
,
his
Monkey
face
casting
on
his
cloake
by
the
booke
:
after
an
Apish
congée
or
two
,
passed
downe
stayres
without
either
word
or
nod
to
vs
,
his
old
fathers
Tenants
:
Neverthelesse
,
we
followed
him
(
like
so
many
russet
seruing-men
)
to
sée
the
euent
of
all
,
and
what
the
issue
would
come
too
:
when
of
a
sudden
he
was
encountred
by
a
most
glorious
spangled
Gallant
,
which
we
tooke
at
first
to
haue
bene
some
vpstart
Taylor
,
because
be
measured
all
his
body
with
a
salutation
,
from
the
flow
of
the
Dublet
,
to
the
fall
of
the
Breeches
:
but
at
last
we
found
him
to
be
a
very
fantasticall
Spunge
,
that
licked
vp
all
humours
,
the
very
Ape
of
fashions
,
gesture
,
and
complement
,
one
of
those
indeed
(
as
we
learned
afterward
)
that
fed
vppon
yong
Land-lords
,
ryotous
sonnes
and
heires
,
till
either
he
,
or
the
Counter
in
Wood-stréete
had
swallowed
them
vp
:
and
would
not
stick
to
be
a
Bawd
,
or
Pander
to
such
young
Gallants
as
our
young
Gentleman
,
either
to
acquaint
them
with
Harlots
,
or
Harlots
with
them
,
to
bring
them
a
whole
dozen
of
Taffeta
Punkes
at
a
supper
,
and
they
should
be
none
of
these
common
Molls
neither
,
but
discontented
and
vnfortunate
Gentlewoman
,
whose
Parents
being
lately
deceased
,
the
brother
ranne
away
with
all
the
land
,
and
the
poore
Squalles
with
a
litle
mony
,
which
cannot
hold
out
long
without
some
commings
in
,
but
they
will
rather
venture
a
Maidenhead
then
want
a
Head
tyre
:
such
Shuttle-cockes
as
these
,
which
though
they
are
toste
and
played
withall
,
goe
like
Maides
all
white
on
the
top
:
or
else
decayed
Gentlemens
wiues
,
whose
husbands
(
poore
soules
)
lying
for
debt
in
the
Kings
.
Bench
,
they
goe
about
to
make
monsters
in
the
Kings-head
Tauerne
:
for
this
is
a
generall
Axiom
:
all
your
luxurious
plots
are
alwayes
begun
in
Tauernes
,
to
be
ended
in
vauting
houses
,
and
after
supper
when
fruite
comes
in
,
there
is
small
fruite
of
honestie
to
be
looked
for
:
(
For
you
know
that
the
eating
of
the
Apple
,
alwayes
betokens
the
fall
of
Eue
)
Our
prodigall
childe
accompanied
with
this
soaking
Swaggerer
and
admirable
Cheater
,
(
who
had
supt
vp
most
of
our
heires
about
London
,
like
pochtegges
)
slips
into
White
Fryers
Nunnery
,
whereas
the
report
went
,
he
kept
his
most
delicate
Drab
,
of
thrée
hundred
a
yeare
:
some
vnthriftie
Gentlemans
daughter
,
who
had
morgaged
his
land
to
Scriueners
,
sure
inough
from
redéeming
againe
:
for
so
much
she
seemed
by
her
bringing
vp
,
though
lesse
by
her
casting
downe
,
endued
she
was
(
as
we
heard
)
with
some
good
qualities
,
though
all
were
conuerted
then
but
to
flattring
villanies
:
she
could
runne
vpon
the
Lute
very
well
,
which
in
others
would
haue
appeared
vertuous
,
but
in
her
lasciuious
,
for
her
running
was
rather
iested
at
because
she
was
a
light
Runner
besides
:
she
had
likewise
the
gift
of
singing
very
deliciously
,
able
to
charme
the
hearer
,
which
so
bewitcht
away
our
young
Maisters
mony
,
that
he
might
haue
kept
seuen
Noise
of
Musitians
for
lesse
charges
,
and
yet
they
would
haue
stood
for
Seruingmen
too
,
hauing
blew
coats
of
their
owne
:
she
had
a
humour
to
lispe
often
,
like
a
flattring
wanton
,
and
talke
childish
,
like
a
Parsons
daughter
;
which
so
pleased
and
wrapt
our
old
Land-Lords
licourish
sonne
,
that
he
would
sweare
,
she
spake
nothing
but
swéete
meates
:
and
her
breath
then
sent
forth
such
a
delicious
odour
,
that
it
perfumed
his
white
Sattin
doublet
,
better
then
sixtéene
Milliners
.
Wel
,
there
we
left
him
with
his
devouring
Cheater
,
&
his
glorious
Cockatrice
,
&
being
almost
vpon
dinner-time
,
we
hied
vs
and
tooke
our
repast
,
at
thriftie
Mother
Walkers
,
where
we
found
a
whole
neast
of
pinching
Batchelors
,
crowded
together
vpon
Formes
and
Benches
,
in
that
most
worshipfull
Thrée-halfe-peny
Ordinary
:
where
presently
they
were
boarded
,
with
hot
Monnsier
Mutton
and
Porridge
(
A
French-man
by
his
blowing
)
&
next
to
them
,
we
were
serued
in
order
,
euery
one
taking
their
degrée
:
And
I
tell
you
true
,
Ladie
,
I
haue
knowne
the
time
,
when
our
young
Land-lords
father
hath
bene
a
thrée-halfpeny-eater
there
:
nay
more
,
was
the
first
that
acquainted
vs
with
that
sparing
and
thriftie
Ordinarie
,
when
his
ryotous
sonne
hath
since
spent
his
fiue
pound
at
a
sitting
.
Wel
,
hauing
discharged
our
smal
shot
(
which
was
like
Haile-shot
,
in
respect
of
our
yong
Maisters
Cannon-reckonings
in
Tauernes
)
we
plodded
home
to
our
Ploughs
,
carrying
these
heavy
newes
to
our
wiues
,
both
of
the
prodigalitie
of
our
old
Land-lords
sonne
,
as
also
of
our
oppressions
to
come
,
by
the
burthen
of
vncharitable
Fines
.
And
most
musicall
Madame
Nightingale
,
doe
but
imagine
now
,
what
a
sad
Christmas
we
al
kept
in
the
Countrie
,
without
either
Carols
,
Wassel
Bowles
,
dauncing
of
Sellengers
round
in
Moone-shine
nights
about
May-Poles
,
Shoeing
the
Mare
,
Hoodman
blind
,
Hot-cockles
,
or
any
of
our
old
Christmas
Gambols
no
,
not
so
much
as
choosing
King
and
Queene
,
on
Twelfe-night
:
such
was
the
dulnes
of
our
pleasures
,
for
that
one
word
Fines
,
robbed
vs
of
all
our
fine
Pastimes
.
This
sowre
fac●●
Christmas
thus
vnpleasantly
past
ouer
,
vp
againe
we
trotted
to
London
,
in
a
great
Frost
(
I
remember
)
for
the
ground
was
as
hard
as
the
Lawyers
Conscience
:
and
arriuing
at
the
luxurious
Strand
,
some
thrée
dayes
before
the
Tearme
,
we
inquired
for
our
bountifull
Land-lord
,
or
the
Foole
in
the
full
,
at
his
neate
and
curious
Lodging
:
but
answere
was
made
vs
by
an
old
Chamber-maide
,
that
our
Gentleman
slept
not
there
all
the
Christmas
time
,
but
had
bene
at
Court
,
and
at
least
in
fiue
Maskes
,
marry
now
as
she
thought
,
we
might
find
him
at
Maister
Poops
his
Ordinary
,
with
halfe
a
dozen
of
Gallants
more
,
at
Dice
.
At
Dice
!
at
the
Diuell
,
quoth
I
,
for
that
is
a
Dicers
last
throw
:
here
I
began
to
rayle
like
Thom
.
Nash
,
against
Gabriell
Haruey
!
if
you
call
that
rayling
,
yet
I
thinke
it
was
but
the
running
a
Tilt
of
wits
in
Booke
sellers
shops
,
on
both
sides
of
Iohn
of
Paule
Church-yard
:
and
I
wonder
how
Iohn
scapt
vnhorsing
.
But
when
we
were
entred
the
doore
of
the
Ordinarie
,
we
might
hear
our
lusty
Gentleman
shoote
off
a
volley
of
oathes
,
some
three
Roomes
ouer
vs
,
cursing
the
Dice
,
and
wishing
the
Poxe
were
in
their
bones
,
crying
out
for
a
new
payre
of
square
ones
,
for
the
other
belike
had
cogde
with
him
,
and
made
a
Gull
of
him
:
when
the
Hoste
of
the
Ordinarie
comming
downe
stairs
,
met
vs
with
this
report
,
(
after
we
had
named
him
)
Troth
good
fellows
,
you
haue
named
now
the
most
vnfortunatest
Gentleman
liuing
at
(
passage
I
meane
:
)
for
I
protest
,
I
haue
stood
by
myselfe
as
a
heauie
eye
witnesse
,
and
séene
the
beheading
of
fiue
hundred
Crownee
,
and
what
pittifull
end
they
all
made
:
with
that
he
shewed
vs
his
embost
Girdle
and
Hangers
,
new
pawned
for
more
mony
:
and
told
vs
beside
,
not
without
teares
,
his
glorious
cloake
was
cast
away
three
houres
before
,
ouer-boord
,
which
was
,
off
the
table
?
at
which
lamentable
hearing
,
we
stood
still
in
the
lower
roome
,
&
durst
not
venture
vp
stairs
,
for
feare
he
would
haue
laide
al
vs
Plough-men
to
pawne
too
:
and
yet
I
thinke
all
we
could
scarce
haue
made
vp
one
throwe
:
but
to
drawe
to
an
end
,
as
his
Patrimony
did
,
we
had
not
lingred
the
better
part
of
an
houre
,
but
downe
came
fencing
his
glittering
rapier
and
dagger
,
as
if
he
had
bene
newly
shoulderclapt
by
a
pewter-buttond
Ser●eant
,
and
his
weapons
seized
vpon
;
at
last
after
a
great
peale
of
Oaths
on
all
sides
,
the
Court
broake
vp
,
&
the
worshipfull
Bench
of
Dicers
came
thundring
downe
staires
,
some
swearing
,
some
laughing
,
some
cursing
,
and
some
singing
,
with
such
a
confusion
of
humours
,
that
had
we
knowne
before
what
rancke
of
Gallants
they
were
,
we
should
haue
thought
the
Diuels
had
bene
at
Dice
in
an
Ordinary
:
the
first
that
appeared
to
vs
was
our
most
lamentable
Landlord
,
drest
vp
in
his
Monkies
liuery
cloake
,
that
he
séemed
now
rather
to
wait
vpon
his
Monkie
,
then
his
Monky
vpon
him
,
which
did
set
forth
his
Sattin-sute
so
excellent
scuruily
,
that
he
lookt
for
all
the
world
like
a
French
Lord
in
dirty
bootes
:
when
casting
his
eye
vpon
vs
,
being
desirous
(
as
it
séemed
)
to
remember
vs
now
if
we
had
any
mony
,
brake
into
these
fantasticall
spéeches
;
What
my
whole
warren
of
Tenants
thinking
indeed
to
make
Conies
of
vs
:
my
honest
nest
of
Plough-men
,
the
onely
Kings
of
Kent
:
More
dice
ho
;
●faith
let
's
haue
another
carere
,
and
vomit
thrée
dice
in
a
hand
againe
.
With
that
I
pluckt
his
humor
at
one
side
,
and
told
him
,
we
were
indeed
his
fathers
Tenants
,
but
his
we
were
sory
we
were
not
:
and
as
for
mony
to
maintaine
his
Dice
,
we
had
not
sufficient
to
stuffe
out
the
Lawyer
.
Then
replyed
our
Gallant
in
a
rage
,
tossing
out
two
or
thrée
new
minted
Oaths
;
these
Plough-men
are
Polititians
I
think
,
they
haue
wit
the
whorsons
;
they
will
be
Tenants
I
perceiue
longer
then
we
shall
be
Landlords
:
and
faine
he
would
haue
swaggerd
with
vs
,
but
that
his
weapons
were
at
pawne
:
so
marc●ing
out
like
a
turnd
Gentleman
,
the
rest
of
the
Gallants
séemed
to
casheare
him
,
and
throw
him
out
of
their
company
like
a
blanke
Die
,
the
one
hauing
no
black
Péepes
,
nor
be
no
white
Pieces
;
Now
was
our
Gallant
the
true
picture
of
the
Prodigall
,
and
hauing
no
rents
to
gather
now
,
he
gatherd
his
wittes
about
him
,
making
his
braine
pay
him
reuenewes
in
villainy
.
For
it
is
a
generall
observation
,
that
your
Sonnes
and
Heires
,
proue
seldome
wise-men
,
til
they
haue
no
more
land
then
the
compasse
of
their
Noddles
.
To
conclude
,
within
fewe
dayes
practise
,
he
was
absolute
in
cheating
,
and
as
exquisite
in
pandarisme
,
that
he
outstript
al
Greenes
Bookes
,
Of
the
Art
of
Conie-catching
:
and
where
before
he
maintained
his
Drab
he
made
his
Drab
now
maintayne
him
:
proued
the
onely
true
Captaine
of
Vaulting-houses
,
and
the
valiant
Champion
against
Constables
and
Searchers
;
feeding
vpon
the
sinne
of
White-Fryers
,
Pitckt-hatch
,
and
Turne-bol-stréet
:
Nay
,
there
was
no
landed
Nouice
now
,
but
he
could
melt
him
away
into
nothing
:
and
in
one
twelve-month
make
him
hold
all
his
land
betwéene
his
legs
,
and
yet
but
straddle
eastly
neither
.
No
wealthy
sonne
of
the
Citie
,
but
within
lesse
thē
a
quarter
,
be
could
make
all
his
stock
not
worth
a
Iearsie
stockin
:
he
was
all
that
might
be
in
dissolute
villainy
,
and
nothing
that
should
be
in
his
fore-fathers
honestie
.
To
speake
troth
,
we
did
so
much
blush
at
his
life
,
and
were
so
ashamed
of
his
base
courses
,
that
euer
after
we
loathed
to
looke
after
them
.
But
returning
to
our
stubble-hairde
Lawyer
,
who
reapt
his
beard
euery
Terme-time
,
(
the
Lawyers
haruest
)
we
found
the
Mercer
and
the
Merchant
,
crowded
in
his
Studie
,
amongst
a
company
of
Law-bookes
,
which
they
instled
so
often
with
their
Cor-combes
,
that
they
were
almost
together
by
the
eares
with
them
,
when
at
the
sight
of
vs
they
tooke
an
Habes
Corpus
,
&
remooude
their
bodies
into
a
bigger
Roome
:
but
there
we
lingered
not
long
for
our
torments
,
for
the
Mercer
&
the
Merchant
,
gaue
fire
to
the
Lawyers
tongue
with
a
rope
of
Angels
,
and
the
word
Fines
went
off
with
such
a
powder
,
that
the
force
of
it
blew
vs
all
into
the
Countrey
,
quite
changde
our
Plough-mens
shapes
,
and
so
we
became
litle
Ants
againe
.
This
,
Madame
Nightingale
,
is
the
true
discourse
of
our
Rurall
fortunes
,
which
how
miserable
,
wretched
,
and
full
of
oppression
they
were
,
all
Husband
mens
browes
can
witnesse
,
that
are
Finde
with
more
sweat
,
stil
yeare
by
yeare
,
and
I
hope
a
Canzonet
of
your
sweet
singing
,
wil
set
them
forth
to
the
world
in
Satyricall
Harmony
.
The
remorcefull
Nightingale
,
delighted
with
the
Ants
quaint
discourse
,
began
to
tune
the
Instrument
of
her
voyce
,
breathing
forth
these
lines
,
in
swéet
and
delicious
Aires
.
The
Nightingales
Canzonet
.
POore
little
Ant
,
Thou
shalt
not
want
The
rauisht
Musicke
of
my
voyce
:
Thy
shape
is
best
,
Now
thou
art
least
,
For
great
Ones
fall
with
greater
noyse
.
And
this
shall
be
the
Marriage
of
my
song
,
Small
Bodies
can
haue
but
a
little
wrong
.
Now
thou
art
securer
,
And
thy
dayes
farre
surer
,
Thou
pai'st
no
Rent
vpon
the
Racke
,
To
dawbe
a
prodigall
Land-lords
backe
:
Or
to
maintaine
the
subtil
running
Of
Dice
and
Drabs
,
both
one
in
cunning
:
Both
passe
from
hand
to
hand
to
many
,
Flattring
all
,
yet
false
to
any
:
Both
are
well
linckt
:
for
throw
Dice
how
you
can
,
They
wil
turne
vp
their
Peepes
to
euery
man
.
Happie
art
thou
,
and
all
thy
brothers
,
That
neuer
feelst
the
Hell
of
others
:
The
torment
to
a
Luxur
due
,
Who
neuer
thinkes
his
Harlot
true
,
Although
vpon
her
heeles
he
stick
his
eyes
,
Yet
stil
he
feares
,
that
though
she
stands
,
she
lyes
.
Now
are
thy
labours
easie
,
Thy
state
not
sicke
or
queasie
;
All
drops
thou
sweatst
are
now
thine
owne
,
Great
Subsidies
be
as
vnknowne
To
thee
;
and
to
thy
little
fellow
Ants
,
Now
none
of
you
vnder
that
burthen
pants
.
Loe
for
example
,
I
my selfe
,
poore
wormes
,
That
haue
out-worne
the
rage
of
Tereus
stormes
:
Am
euer
blest
now
in
this
downy
shape
,
From
all
mens
trechery
,
or
soule-melting
Rape
:
And
when
I
sing
Tereu
,
Tereu
,
Through
euery
Towne
,
and
so
renew
The
name
of
Torens
,
slaues
through
feares
,
With
guiltie
Fingers
bolt
their
eares
:
And
all
rauishers
do
raue
,
and
e'en
fall
mad
,
And
then
such
wrongd
soules
as
my selfe
are
glad
.
So
thou
small
wretch
and
all
thy
Nest
,
Are
in
those
litle
bodies
blest
:
Not
taxt
beyond
your
poore
degree
,
With
Landlords
Fine
,
and
Lawyers
Fee
.
But
tell
me
prety-toiling
worme
,
Did
that
same
Plough-mans
weary
forme
Discourage
thee
so
much
from
others
,
That
neither
thou
,
nor
those
thy
brothers
,
In
borrowed
shapes
durst
once
agen
Venture
amongst
perfidious
men
?
Ant.
Yes
Lady
,
the
poore
Ant
replied
,
I
left
not
so
,
but
then
I
tried
Wars
sweating
Fortunes
,
not
alone
Condemning
rash
all
states
for
one
,
Vntill
I
found
by
proofe
,
and
knew
by
course
,
That
one
was
bad
,
but
all
the
rest
were
worse
.
Nightingale
.
Didst
thou
put
on
a
rugged
Souldier
then
?
A
happie
state
,
because
thou
fought'st
gainst
men
?
Prethee
discourse
,
thy
fortunes
,
state
and
harmes
,
Thou
wast
no
doubt
,
A
mighty
man
at
Armes
?
The
Ants
Tale
when
he
was
a
Souldier
.
THen
thus
:
Most
musicall
and
prickle-singing
Madame
,
(
for
if
I
erre
not
,
your
Ladiship
was
the
first
that
brought
vp
Prick-song
,
being
nothing
else
but
the
fatall
notes
of
your
pittifull
rauishment
)
:
I
not
contented
long
,
(
a
vice
cleaning
to
all
worldlings
)
with
this
litle
estate
of
an
Ant
,
but
stuft
with
enuie
and
ambition
,
as
small
as
I
was
,
desired
to
verture
into
the
world
againe
,
which
I
may
rather
tearme
the
vpper
Hell
or
Frigida
Gehenna
,
the
cold-charitable
Hell
,
wherein
are
all
kind
of
Diuels
too
,
as
your
gentle
Diuel
,
your
ordinarie
Diuel
,
and
your
gallant
Diuel
,
and
all
these
can
change
their
shapes
too
:
As
to
day
in
cowardly
white
:
to
morrow
in
politicke
black
:
A
third
day
in
iealous
yallow
;
for
beléeue
it
,
swéete
Lady
,
there
are
Diuels
of
all
colours
:
neuerthelesso
I
couetous
of
more
change
,
leapt
out
of
this
litle
skin
of
an
Ant
,
and
hung
my
skin
on
the
hedge
,
taking
vpon
me
the
grisly
shape
of
a
dusty
Souldier
;
well
made
I
was
,
and
my
limbes
valiantly
hewen
out
for
the
purpose
:
I
had
a
Mazard
I
remember
,
so
well
linde
in
the
inside
with
my
Braine
,
it
stood
me
in
better
stead
then
a
double
head-piece
,
for
the
braine
of
a
Souldier
differing
from
al
other
Sciences
,
conuerts
it selfe
to
no
vse
,
but
to
line
,
fur
,
and
euen
quilt
the
Corscombs
,
and
so
makes
a
pate
of
proofe
:
my
face
was
well
leuend
,
which
made
my
lookes
faste
sowre
,
the
true
rellish
of
a
man
of
war
:
my
chéekes
,
doe-bakte
,
pale
,
wan
,
and
therefore
argued
valour
and
resolution
:
but
my
nose
somewhat
hard
bakte
,
and
a
litle
burnt
in
the
Ouen
:
a
property
not
amisse
in
a
Souldiers
vizage
,
who
should
scorne
to
kinsh
,
but
in
his
nose
:
my
chi●
was
well
patcht
with
a
beard
,
which
was
a
necessary
shelther
in
winter
,
and
a
Fly
flap
in
summer
:
so
brushy
and
spreading
,
that
my
lips
could
scarce
be
seene
to
walke
abread
,
but
plaide
at
all
his
,
and
durst
not
péepe
forth
for
starting
a
Hayre
.
Tocouelude
,
my
Armes
,
Thies
and
Lege
,
were
so
sound
,
stent
,
and
weighty
,
as
if
they
had
come
all
out
of
the
Timber-yard
:
that
my
very
presence
onely
was
able
to
still
the
bawlingst
Infant
in
Europe
.
And
I
thinke
Madame
,
this
was
no
vnlikely
shape
for
a
Souldier
to
proue
well
:
here
was
mettle
enough
,
for
foure
shillings
awéeke
,
to
doe
valiant
seruice
,
till
it
was
bored
as
full
of
holes
as
a
Scinuner
:
well
,
to
the
warres
I
betooke
me
,
ranckt
my selfe
amongst
desperate
Hot-shots
;
onely
my
carriage
put
on
more
ciuilitie
,
for
I
séemed
more
like
a
Spy
,
thē
a
follower
:
an
obseruer
,
rather
then
a
committer
of
villainy
:
and
litle
thought
I
Madame
,
that
the
Campe
had
bene
supplied
with
Harlots
too
,
as
wel
as
the
Curraine
;
and
the
garded
tents
as
wicked
as
garden
Tenements
;
Truils
passing
too
and
fro
in
the
washt-shape
of
Laundresses
,
as
your
Bawdes
about
London
in
the
manner
of
Starchwomen
,
which
is
the
most
vnsuspected
habit
the
can
be
to
traine
out
a
Mistresie
.
And
if
your
Ladiship
will
not
thinke
me
much
out
of
the
way
,
though
I
take
a
running
leap
from
the
Campe
to
the
Strand
againe
,
I
will
discouer
a
pretie
knauery
of
the
same
bréeding
,
betwéene
such
a
Starch-woman
,
and
a
kind
wanton
Mistresse
,
as
there
are
fewe
of
those
ballac'st
vessells
now
adayes
but
will
haue
a
Loue
and
a
husband
.
The
woman
erying
her
ware
by
the
doore
,
(
a
most
pittifull
cry
,
and
lamentable
hearing
,
that
such
a
stiffe
thing
as
Starch
should
want
Customers
,
)
passng
cunningly
and
slily
by
the
stall
,
not
once
taking
notice
of
the
partie
you
wot
on
,
but
being
by
this
,
some
thrée
or
foure
shops
off
,
Masse
quoth
my
young
Mistresse
to
the
weather-Cocke
her
husband
,
such
a
thing
I
want
you
know
:
then
she
namde
how
many
Puffas
and
Purles
lay
in
a
miserable
case
for
want
of
sti●ning
:
the
honest
plaine
dealing
Iewell
her
husband
,
sent
out
a
Boy
to
call
her
:
(
not
Bawde
,
by
her
right
name
,
but
Starchwoman
)
into
the
shop
she
came
,
making
a
lowe
counterfet
curtesie
,
of
whom
the
Mistresse
demaunded
,
if
the
Starch
were
pure
geare
,
and
would
be
suffe
in
her
Ruffe
;
saying
,
she
had
often
bene
deceiued
before
,
when
the
things
about
her
haue
stood
as
limber
as
Eleskins
.
The
woman
replyed
as
subtilly
,
Mistresse
(
quoth
she
,
)
take
this
paper
of
starch
of
my
hand
,
and
if
it
prooue
not
to
your
mind
,
neuer
bestow
peny
with
me
:
which
paper
indéed
,
was
a
Letter
sent
to
her
〈◇〉
the
Gentleman
her
excéeding
Fauorite
.
Say
you
so
(
quoth
the
yong
Dame
)
and
I
le
try
it
yfaith
.
With
that
she
ranne
vp
stayres
like
a
Spinner
,
vpon
small
Cobweb-Ropes
,
not
to
the
or
arraigne
the
starch
:
but
to
constur
and
perse
the
Letter
:
whilst
her
husband
sat
below
by
the
Counter
,
like
one
of
these
brold-bitten
Catchpoles
,
that
waite
for
one
man
all
day
,
(
when
his
wife
can
put
fiue
in
the
Counter
before
him
;
)
wherein
she
sound
many
words
that
pleased
her
.
Withall
,
the
gentleman
writ
vnto
her
for
a
certaine
summe
of
mony
:
which
no
sooner
was
read
,
but
was
ready
to
be
sent
;
wherefore-laying
vp
the
starch
and
that
,
and
taking
another
shéete
of
cleane
paper
in
her
hand
,
wanting
time
and
opportunitie
to
write
at
large
,
with
a
pen
full
of
Inck
in
the
very
middle
of
the
sheet
,
writ
these
sewe
quaint
Monosillables
,
Coyne
,
Cares
,
and
Cures
,
and
all
Cees
else
are
yours
:
then
rowling
vp
the
white
mony
like
the
Starch
in
that
paper
,
very
subtilly
and
artificially
,
came
tripping
downe
stayres
,
with
these
colourable
words
:
Héer
s
goodly
Starch
indéed
:
Fie
,
fue
:
trust
me
Husband
as
yellow
as
the
Iaundize
;
I
would
not
haue
betrayde
my
Puffes
with
it
for
a
Million
:
Héere
,
héere
,
héere
:
(
giuing
her
the
paper
of
money
)
with
that
the
subtill
Starch
woman
,
séeming
sory
that
it
pleased
her
not
;
told
her
within
fewe
dayes
she
would
fit
her
turne
with
that
which
should
like
her
:
meaning
in●éed
more
such
swéete
newes
from
her
Louer
.
These
and
such
like
Madame
,
are
the
cunning
conueyances
,
of
secret
,
priuie
,
and
therefore
vunoted
Harlots
,
that
so
auoyde
the
common
finger
of
the
world
,
when
lesse
Committers
then
they
are
publickely
pointed
at
.
So
likewise
in
the
Campe
whither
now
I
returne
,
borne
on
the
swift
wings
of
Apprehension
,
the
habite
of
a
Landresse
,
shadowes
the
abhomintion
of
a
Strumpet
:
And
our
souldiers
are
like
Glouers
,
for
the
one
cannot
worke
well
,
nor
the
other
fight
well
without
their
wenches
.
This
was
the
first
marke
of
villainy
,
that
I
found
sticking
vpon
the
brow
of
war
:
But
after
the
hot
&
fierie
copulation
of
a
skirmish
or
two
,
the
Ordenance
playing
like
so
many
Tamburlaines
,
the
Mulkets
and
Caliuers
answering
like
Drawers
;
Anon
,
Anon
sir
,
I
cannot
be
here
and
there
too
:
that
is
,
in
the
Souldiers
hand
,
and
in
the
enemies
belly
:
I
grew
more
acquainted
,
and
as
it
were
entred
into
the
Entrailes
of
Black-liuerd
policie
.
Me-thought
indéed
at
first
,
those
great
pieces
of
Ordenance
should
speake
English
,
though
now
by
transportation
turnde
Rebele
:
and
what
a
miserable
and
pittifull
plight
it
was
Lady
,
to
haue
so
many
thousands
of
our
men
slaine
by
their
owne
Country-men
the
Cannons
,
I
meane
not
the
harmelesse
Cannons
of
Powles
;
but
those
Cannons
that
haue
a
great
singing
in
their
heads
.
Well
in
this
onset
I
remember
I
was
well
smoake-dried
,
but
neither
Arme
nor
Legge
perisht
:
not
so
much
as
the
losse
of
a
petty
finger
:
for
when
I
counted
them
all
ouer
,
I
mist
not
one
of
them
,
and
yet
sometimes
the
Bullets
came
within
a
haire
of
my
Cor-combe
,
euen
like
a
Barber
seraching
my
pate
,
and
perhaps
tooke
away
the
left
limbe
of
a
bermin
,
and
so
departed
.
Another
time
shouldring
me
like
a
Bayliffe
against
Michaelmas
Terme
,
and
then
shaking
me
by
the
sléeue
as
familiarly
as
if
we
had
bene
acquainted
seauen
yeares
together
.
To
conclude
,
they
vsde
me
very
curteously
and
gentleman-like
awhile
,
like
an
old
cunning
Bowler
to
fetch
in
a
yong
kething
Gamster
,
who
will
suffer
him
to
win
one
Six-penny
game
at
the
first
,
and
then
lurch
him
in
Sixe
pounds
afterward
:
and
so
they
plaide
wish
me
,
still
training
me
(
with
their
faire
promises
)
into
farre
déeper
and
deadlier
Battayles
,
where
like
villainous
cheating
Bowlers
,
they
lurcht
me
of
two
of
my
best
Limbes
,
viz.
My
right
Arme
,
and
right
Leggs
,
that
so
of
a
man
of
war
,
I
became
in
shew
a
monster
of
warre
:
yet
comforted
in
this
,
because
I
knew
warre
begot
many
such
Monsters
as
my selfe
in
lesse
then
a
Twlue-month
.
Now
I
could
discharge
no
more
,
hauing
paide
the
shot
deare
enough
I
thinke
,
but
rather
desirde
to
be
dischargde
,
to
haue
Pay
and
be
gone
:
whereupon
I
appeared
to
my
Captaine
and
other
Commanders
,
kissng
my
left
hand
which
then
stood
for
both
;
(
like
one
Actor
that
plaies
two
Parts
)
who
séemd
to
pittie
my
vnioynted
fortunes
,
and
playster
my
wounde
vp
with
words
,
tolde
me
I
had
done
valiant
seruice
in
their
knowledge
,
marry
as
for
Pay
,
they
most
goe
on
the
score
with
me
,
for
all
their
money
was
thumpt
out
in
Powder
:
And
this
was
no
pleasing
salue
for
a
gréene
sore
Madame
:
t
was
too
much
for
me
,
Lady
,
to
trust
Caliuers
with
my
Limbes
,
and
then
Caualéeres
with
my
mony
.
Neuerlesse
(
for
all
my
lamentable
Action
of
one
Arme
like
old
Titus
Andronicus
)
I
could
purchase
no
more
then
one
months
Pay
,
for
a
ten-months
paine
and
perill
,
nor
that
neither
;
but
to
conuey
away
my
miserable
clamours
that
lay
roaring
against
the
Arches
of
their
Eares
,
marry
their
bountiful
fauours
were
extended
thus
farre
:
I
had
a
Parsport
to
beg
in
all
Countries
.
Well
,
away
I
was
packt
,
and
after
a
Iewe
miseries
(
by
the
way
)
at
last
I
set
one
foote
into
England
againe
,
(
for
I
had
no
more
then
to
set
)
being
my
Natiue
,
though
vnnaturall
Countrey
,
for
whose
deare
good
I
pawnde
my
Limbes
to
Bullets
;
those
mercilesse
Brokers
,
that
will
take
the
vauntage
of
a
minute
,
and
so
they
were
quite
forfeited
,
lost
,
and
vnrecouerable
:
when
I
was
on
Shoare
,
the
people
gathered
,
which
word
gathering
,
put
me
in
hope
of
good
comfort
,
that
afterward
I
failde
of
:
for
I
thought
at
first
they
had
gathered
some
thing
for
me
,
but
I
found
at
last
they
did
onely
but
gather
about
me
:
Some
wondring
at
me
,
as
if
I
had
bene
some
Sea-monster
cast
a
Shoare
:
some
iesting
at
my
deformitie
,
whilst
others
laught
at
the
Iestes
;
One
amongst
them
I
remember
likened
me
to
a
Sea-Crab
,
because
I
went
all
of
one
side
,
another
fellow
vyed
and
said
,
I
lookte
like
a
Rabbit
cut
vp
and
halfe
eaten
:
because
my
wing
and
legge
(
as
they
tearmde
it
)
were
departed
:
some
began
to
pittie
me
,
but
those
were
fewe
in
number
;
or
at
least
their
pittie
was
as
penniles
,
as
Pierce
,
who
writ
to
the
Diuell
for
maintenance
.
Thus
passing
from
place
to
place
,
like
the
Motion
of
Iulius
Caesar
,
or
the
Citie
Niniue
,
though
not
altogether
in
so
good
cloathes
:
I
ouertooke
the
Citie
,
from
whence
I
borrowed
my
first
breath
,
and
in
whose
defence
I
spent
and
layde
out
my
Limbes
by
whole
summes
,
to
purchase
her
peace
and
happinesse
;
nothing
doubting
but
to
be
well
entreated
there
,
my
grieuous
maymes
tenderly
regarded
,
my
powre●roken
estate
carefully
repayred
,
the
Ruines
of
my
blood
built
vp
againe
with
redresse
and
comfort
:
But
woe
the
while
Madame
,
I
was
not
onely
,
vnpittied
,
succourlesse
,
and
reiected
,
but
threatned
with
the
Publicke
Stocks
,
loathsome
Iayles
,
and
common
whipping-Posts
,
there
to
receiue
my
pay
,
(
a
goodly
reward
for
bléeding
Seruice
)
if
I
were
once
found
in
the
citie
againe
.
Wherefore
,
I
was
forest
to
retire
towards
the
Spittle
,
and
Shore-ditch
,
which
as
it
appeared
was
the
onely
Cole-harbor
and
Sanctuarie
for
Wenches
and
Souldiers
:
where
I
tooke
vp
a
poore
lodging
a
trust
,
till
the
Sunday
:
hoping
that
then
Maister
Almes
and
Mistresse
Charitie
would
walke
abroad
,
and
take
the
Aire
in
Finsbury
.
At
which
time
I
came
hopping
out
from
my
Lodging
like
old
lame
Giles
of
Criple-gate
:
but
when
I
came
there
,
the
winde
blew
so
bleake
and
cold
,
that
I
began
to
be
quite
out
of
hope
of
Charitie
:
yet
,
like
a
torne
Map
of
misery
,
I
waited
my
single
Halfe-penny
fortunes
,
when
of
a
suddaine
turning
my selfe
about
,
and
looking
downe
the
Windmill-Hill
,
I
might
espy
a
farre
off
,
a
Fine-fashiond
Dame
of
the
Citie
,
with
her
man
bound
by
Indenter
before
her
;
whom
no
sooner
I
caught
in
mine
Eye-lids
,
but
I
made
too
with
all
possible
spéede
;
and
with
a
premeditated
spéech
for
the
nonce
,
thus
most
Souldierlike
I
accosted
her
.
Swéete
Lady
,
I
beséech
your
Beauty
,
to
weigh
the
estate
of
a
poore
vnioynted
Souldier
,
that
hath
consum'd
the
Moity
,
or
the
one
halfe
of
his
limbs
in
the
dismembring
and
denouring
warres
,
that
hath
cheated
me
of
my
Flesh
so
notoriously
,
I
protest
I
am
not
worth
at
this
instant
the
small
Reuenew
of
thrée
farthings
:
beside
my
Lodging
,
vnpleasde
,
and
my
Diet
vnsatisfied
:
and
had
I
ten
thousand
Limbes
I
would
venture
them
all
in
your
swéet
Quarrell
;
rather
then
such
a
Beauty
as
your selfe
should
want
the
least
limbe
of
your
desire
:
with
that
as
one
being
rather
moued
by
my
last
words
of
promise
,
then
my
first
words
of
pitty
;
she
drew
her
white
bountiful
hand
out
of
her
Mary-Muffe
,
and
quoited
a
single
Halfe-peny
,
wherby
I
knewe
her
then
to
be
cold
Mistresse
Charity
,
both
by
her
chil
appearance
,
&
the
hard
frozen
Pension
she
gaue
me
:
she
was
lapr
I
remember
,
from
the
sharpe
iniury
of
the
biting
Aire
,
her
vizage
was
benighted
with
a
Taffaty
Maske
;
to
fray
away
the
naughty
wind
from
her
face
;
and
yet
her
very
nose
séemed
so
sharpe
with
cold
,
that
it
almost
borde
a
hole
quite
through
.
This
was
frost-bitten
Charity
;
her
téeth
chaterd
in
her
head
,
and
leapt
vp
and
downe
like
Virginall-Iacks
:
which
betraied
likewise
who
she
was
:
and
you
would
haue
broke
into
infinite
laughter
Madame
(
though
miserie
made
me
leaden
and
pensiue
)
had
you
bene
present
to
haue
séene
how
quickly
the
Muff●
swallowed
her
hand
againe
,
for
no
sooner
was
it
drawne
forth
to
drop
downe
her
pittifull
Almes
(
but
for
feare
the
Sunne
and
Aire
should
haue
rauisht
it
)
it
was
extempore
whipt
vp
againe
.
This
is
the
true
picture
of
Charity
Madame
,
which
is
as
cold
as
Ice
in
the
middle
of
Iuly
.
Well
still
I
waited
for
another
Fare
;
but
then
I
bethought
my selfe
againe
,
that
all
the
Fares
went
by
water
,
a
Sundayes
to
the
Beare-baiting
:
&
a
Mundayes
to
Westminster-Hall
:
and
therfore
litle
to
be
lookt
for
in
Moore
fields
all
the
wéek
long
.
Wherefore
I
sat
downe
by
the
Railes
there
:
and
fell
into
these
passionate
,
but
not
railing
spéeches
:
Is
this
the
fardest
reward
for
a
Souldier
?
Is
Valour
&
Resolution
the
two
Champions
of
the
Soule
,
so
sleightly
estéemed
and
so
basely
vndervalued
?
doth
réeling
Fortune
not
onely
rob
vs
of
our
Limbes
,
but
of
our
liuing
?
Are
Souldiers
then
both
food
for
Cannon
and
for
miserie
?
but
then
in
the
midst
of
my
passion
,
calling
to
memorie
the
péeuish
turnes
of
many
famous
populer-Gallants
,
whose
names
were
writ
euen
vpon
the
Hart
of
the
world
(
it
could
not
so
much
as
thinke
without
them
,
nor
speake
but
in
the
discourse
of
them
)
I
began
to
out-dare
the
very
worst
of
cruell
&
disafter
chances
:
and
determined
to
be
constant
in
calamitie
,
&
valiant
against
the
Battering
Siege
of
misery
:
but
note
the
crosse
star
that
alwaies
dogd
my
Fortunes
:
I
had
not
long
rested
there
,
but
I
saw
the
T●●etring
C●●table
of
Finsbury
with
his
bench
of
browne
bil●en
making
towards
me
;
meaning
indéed
to
stop
some
Prison
hole
with
me
(
as
your
Souldiers
when
the
wars
haue
done
with
them
,
are
good
for
nothing
else
but
to
stop
holes
with
all
)
:
at
which
sight
.
Iscrambled
vp
of
all
two
,
tooke
my
skin
off
the
hedge
,
●ousned
the
Cunstable
,
and
s●nt
into
an
Ant
againe
.
The
Nightingale
.
Oh
t
was
a
prety
quaint
deceite
,
(
The
Nightingale
began
to
sing
)
To
slip
from
those
that
lie
in
waite
,
Whose
touch
is
like
a
Rauens
wing
,
Fatall
and
ominous
,
which
being
spread
,
Ouer
a
mortall
,
aimes
him
dead
.
Alas
poore
Emmet
thou
wa'st
tost
In
thousand
miseries
by
this
shape
:
Thy
colour
wasted
,
thy
bloud
lost
,
Thy
limbes
broke
,
with
the
violent
Rape
Of
hot
impatient
Cannons
,
which
desire
To
rauish
lifes
,
spending
their
lust
in
fire
.
Oh
what
a
ruthfull
sight
it
is
,
to
see
Though
in
a
Souldier
of
the
mean'st
degree
,
That
right
member
perisht
,
Which
thy
body
cherisht
:
That
Limbe
disseuered
,
burnt
,
and
gon
,
Which
the
best
part
was
borne
vpon
;
And
then
the
greatest
ruth
of
all
,
Returning
home
in
torne
estate
:
Where
he
should
rise
,
there
most
to
fall
,
Trod
downe
with
enuie
,
bruisde
with
hate
:
Yet
wretch
,
let
this
thy
comfort
be
,
That
greater
wormes
haue
farde
like
thee
.
So
here
thou
leftst
bloodlesse
and
wan
,
Thy
Iournies
thorough
man
and
man
:
These
two
crost
shapes
so
much
opprest
,
Did
fray
thy
weaknes
from
the
rest
.
Ant.
NO
Madame
,
once
agen
my
spleene
did
thirst
,
To
try
the
third
,
which
makes
men
blest
or
curst
:
That
number
Three
,
many
Stars
wayte
vpon
,
Vshering
cleere
Hap
,
or
black
confusion
:
Once
more
I
venturde
all
my
hopes
to
Crowne
,
But
(
aye
me
)
leapt
into
a
Sclollers
Gowne
.
Nightingale
.
A
Needy
Scholler
!
〈◇〉
worst
,
Lesse
fate
in
that
,
then
ho●h
the
firste
I
thought
thou
'dst
leapt
〈◇〉
Law-Gowne
,
then
There
had
bene
hope
,
to
ha●e
swept
vp
all
agen
,
But
a
lanck
Scholler
I
studie
〈◇〉
you
can
:
No
Acade●'e
makes
a●ich
.
Alderman
.
Well
,
with
this
comfort
yet
thou
mayst
discourse
,
When
Fates
are
worst
,
then
they
can
be
no
〈◇〉
.
The
Ants
Tale
,
when
he
was
a
Scholler
.
YOu
speaks
Oracle
Madame
,
and
now
suppose
sweete
Lady
,
you
sée
me
set
forth
like
a
poore
Scholer
to
the
Vniuersitie
not
on
Horse
back
,
but
in
Hobsons
Waggon
;
and
all
my
Pack●●
〈◇〉
in
lesse
than
a
litle
Hood
boxe
,
my
Bookes
not
aboue
four
in
number
,
and
those
four
were
very
needful
ones
too
,
or
else
they
had
neuer
bene
bought
,
an
yet
I
was
the
valiant
Captaine
of
a
Grammer
Schoole
before
I
went
,
endurde
the
assaull
and
bastary
of
many
vncleane
lashes
,
and
all
the
battailes
I
was
in
stood
vppon
points
much
;
which
once
let
downe
the
Enemy
the
Scholemaister
would
come
rereward
&
do
such
an
exployt
t
is
a
shame
to
be
talkt
of
.
By
this
time
Madame
,
imagine
me
slightly
entertained
,
to
be
a
poore
Scholler
and
seruitor
to
some
Londoners
S●nne
,
a
pure
Cockney
,
that
must
heare
twice
a
weeke
from
his
mother
,
or
else
he
will
be
si●ke
〈◇〉
the
Sunday
of
a
vniuersitie
Mullygrub
:
such
a
one
I
remember
was
my
first
poling
maister
,
by
whose
pée●nsh
seruire
I
crept
into
an
olde
Ba●lors
Gowne
,
and
so
began
to
be
a
iolly
fellow
:
there
was
the
first
point
of
wit
I
showde
,
in
learning
to
keepe
my selfe
warmer
to
the
confirming
of
which
,
you
shall
neuer
take
your
true
Philosophers
without
two
night
caps
at
once
and
better
,
a
Gowne
of
Rugge
with
the
like
appurten●●ees
:
and
who
be
your
wisemen
I
pray
but
they
?
Now
as
for
stodie
and
Bookes
,
I
had
the
vse
of
my
yong
Maisters
,
for
he
was
all
day
a
Courtier
in
the
Tennis-court
,
tossing
of
Balls
in
stea●
of
Bookes
,
and
onely
holding
disputation
with
the
Court
kéeper
,
how
many
doyen
he
was
in
:
and
when
any
friend
of
his
would
remember
him
to
his
Booke
with
this
old
moath
eaten
sentence
,
Nulla
Dies
sine
Linea
:
True
he
would
say
,
I
obserue
it
well
,
for
I
am
no
day
from
the
lyne
of
the
Racket-court
:
wel
in
the
meane
time
I
kept
his
Studie
warme
,
and
suckt
the
Hony
of
wit
from
the
●owers
of
Aristotle
,
stéept
my
braine
in
the
smart
Iuice
of
Logick
,
that
subtill
Virtue
,
and
yet
for
all
my
weighty
and
sobstantiall
arguments
,
being
able
indéed
to
proue
any
thing
by
Logick
.
I
could
proue
my selfe
neuer
the
richer
make
the
beit
Sillegi●●e
I
could●nd
,
although
I
dayly
rose
before
the
Sun
,
●al●●
and
conu●●●
with
Midnight
,
killing
many
a
poore
Farthing
Candle
,
that
sometimes
was
vngently
put
to
death
,
when
〈◇〉
might
haue
liued
longer
,
but
most
times
liuing
out
the
full
course
and
houre
,
and
the
s●●ffe
dying
naturally
in
his
bed
.
Neuerthelesse
,
I
had
●utered
as
yet
but
the
〈◇〉
of
a
Scholler
,
and
fat
but
vpon
the
skirts
of
learning
;
full
often
I
haue
sighed
,
when
others
haue
snor●ed
,
and
when
baser
Trades
haue
securely
rested
in
their
Lin●●●s
,
I
haue
for●st
mine
eyes
open
,
and
euen
gagd
them
with
Capitall
Letters
,
stretching
them
vppon
the
tenters
of
a
broade
Text
line
,
when
Night
and
Sleepe
haue
h●ng
pound
waits
of
lead
vpon
my
eye
,
lids
.
How
many
such
blark
and
gastly
seas●ns
haue
I
past
ouer
,
accompanied
onely
with
a
demure
watching
Candle
,
that
blinkt
vppon
Aristotles
workes
,
and
gau●
euen
sufficient
glimmering
to
reade
by
,
but
none
to
spare
,
Hitherto
my
hopes
grewe
comfortable
vpon
the
spreadding
Branches
of
Art
and
Learning
,
rather
promising
future
a●nancement
,
then
emply
dayes
and
penu●ious
scarcitie
.
But
shall
I
tell
you
Lady
,
Oh!
here
let
me
sigh
out
a
full
point
,
and
take
my
leaue
of
all
plent●●●●
houres
,
and
wealthy
hopes
,
for
in
the
spring
of
all
〈◇〉
persections
,
in
the
very
pride
and
glo●ie
of
all
my
〈◇〉
,
I
was
vnstuitfully
lead
to
the
licorish
studie
of
〈◇〉
,
that
swéete
Honey
Poyson
that
〈◇〉
a
●pple
Scholl●●
with
v●prositable
swéetnes
,
and
〈◇〉
false
cance●●
,
vntill
he
burst
into
exceamities
,
and
〈…〉
,
or
at
the
●●st
,
one
of
the
〈◇〉
Knights
of
●●try
,
worse
by
oddes
then
one
of
the
p●●t
Knights
of
〈◇〉
.
Marry
there
was
an
Age
once
,
but
alas
,
long
since
dead
and
rotten
,
whose
dust
lies
now
in
Lawyers
Sa●●
Bores
:
in
those
golden
dayes
a
vert●
us
writer
might
haue
liued
,
maintained
himselfe
better
vpon
Pori●●
,
〈…〉
vpon
Pl●●ghs
,
and
might
haue
experded
〈…〉
the
yeare
,
by
the
true●ew
of
his
verse
:
then
any
〈…〉
brother
,
●ppon
the
wealthy
Quertridges
of
three
●●●es
three
hundred
〈◇〉
,
according
to
the
excellent
report
of
these
lines
.
There
was
a
Golden
age
!
who
murderd
it
?
How
died
that
Age
,
or
what
became
of
it
?
Then
Poets
by
diuinest
Alkemy
,
Did
turne
their
Inck
to
Gold
,
Kings
in
that
time
Hung
Iewells
at
the
eare
of
euery
Rime
.
But
oh
those
dayes
are
wasted
,
and
behold
The
Golden
Age
that
was
,
is
Coynde
to
Gold
:
And
why
time
now
is
cald
an
Iron
man
,
Or
this
an
Iron
Age
t
i's
thus
exprest
:
The
Golden
Age
lyes
in
an
yron
chest
.
Or
,
Gold
lies
now
as
prisoner
in
an
Vsurers
great
Iron
bard
Chest
,
where
the
Prison
Grates
,
are
the
locks
and
the
key-holes
,
but
so
closely
made
,
or
rather
damnd
vp
,
that
it
neuer
lookes
to
walke
abroad
againe
,
vnlesse
there
chaunce
to
come
a
spéedie
Rot
among
Vsurers
:
for
I
feare
me
the
pidling
Gowle
will
neuer
make
them
away
s●●ne
enough
:
for
your
rancke
mony
Maisters
liue
their
thréescore
and
ten
yeares
as
orderly
,
as
many
honester
men
:
and
it
is
great
pittie
(
Lady
Philomell
)
that
the
Gowte
should
be
such
a
long
courtier
in
a
Usurers
great
Toe
,
reuelling
&
dominéering
aboue
thirty-yeares
together
in
his
rammish
blood
,
&
his
fustie
flesh
:
and
I
wonder
much
Madams
,
that
gold
being
the
Spirit
of
the
Indyes
,
can
couch
so
basely
vnder
Wood
and
Iron
,
two
dul
slaues
,
and
not
muster
vp
his
Legion
of
Angells
,
burst
through
the
wide
Bulke
of
a
Coffer
,
and
so
martch
into
bountifull
and
liberall
bosoms
,
shake
hands
with
vertuous
Gentlemen
,
Industrious
spirits
,
and
true
deseruing
worthies
detesting
the
couetous
clutches
,
and
loathsome
Fangs
of
a
Goate-bearded
Usurer
,
a
Sable-souls
Broker
,
and
an
Infectious
Law-Fogger
.
Oh
but
I
chide
in
vaine
,
for
gold
wants
eyes
,
And
like
a
whore
cares
not
with
whom
it
lies
.
Yet
that
which
makes
me
most
admire
his
basenesse
are
these
verses
following
,
wherein
he
proudly
sets
forth
his
owne
glorie
,
which
he
vaunts
so
much
of
,
that
I
shame
to
thinke
any
:
Ignoble
spirit
or
Copper
disposition
should
letter
his
smooth
:
golden
Limbes
in
boysterous
and
sullen
Iron
,
but
rather
be
let
frée
to
euery
vertuous
and
therefore
poore
Scholler
,
(
for
pouerty
is
Neece
to
vertue
so
should
each
Elegant
Poem
be
truly
valued
,
and
diuine
Poesie
set
crownd
in
Gold
as
she
ought
,
where
now
she
onely
sits
with
a
Paper
on
her
head
,
as
if
she
had
committed
some
notorious
trespasse
,
either
for
rayling
against
some
brawling
Lawyer
,
or
calling
some
Iustice
of
Peaces
wiseman
,
and
how
magnificently
,
Gold
sings
of
his
owne
fame
and
glorie
,
these
his
owne
verses
shall
stand
for
witnesses
.
—
Know
I
am
Gold
,
The
richest
spirit
,
that
breaths
in
Ea●th
or
Hell
:
The
soule
of
Kingdomes
,
and
the
stam●
of
soules
,
Bright
Angells
we
are
〈◇〉
liuery
,
soueraigne
Kings
Christen
their
names
in
Gold
,
and
call
themselues
Royall
and
soueraygne
after
my
gilt
name
;
All
offices
are
mine
,
and
in
my
gift
.
I
h●ue
a
hand
in
all
,
the
statists
vein●●
Flowe
in
the
blood
of
Gold
the
Courtier
bathes
His
supple
and
lasciuious
I
imbes
in
●●le
,
Which
my
browe
sweats
,
what
Lady
brightly
sphearde
,
But
takes
delight
to
kisse
a
Golden
beard
.
Those
pleaders
foronoone-Play
ess
,
act
my
parts
:
With
liberall
tongs
and
desperate
fighting
spirite
,
That
wrastle
with
the
Armes
of
voice
and
Ayre
:
And
least
they
should
be
out
,
or
faint
,
or
cold
,
Their
Innocent
Clyents
hist
them
on
with
Gold
;
What
holy
Churchman's
not
accounted
euen
,
That
prayes
three
times
to
me
,
ere
once
to
heauent
Then
to
let
shine
the
radiance
of
my
birth
,
I
am
the
Enchantment
both
in
hell
and
earth
.
Here
's
golden
Maiesty
enough
I
trow
:
And
Gold
art
thou
so
powerfull
,
so
mighty
,
and
yet
sna●●ed
with
a
poore
Pad-lock
?
Oh
base
drudge
,
and
too
vnworthy
of
such
an
Angellike-forme
,
much
like
a
faire
sléekt-fa●de
Courtier
,
without
either
wit
or
●●rtue
:
Thou
that
throwest
the
Earthen
Bowle
of
the
world
with
the
Byas
the
wrong
way
,
to
pesantry
,
baser●sse
,
Ingen●ilitie
,
and
neuer
giuest
desert
his
due
,
or
shakest
thy
yealow
wings
in
a
Schollers
.
Studie
:
but
why
do
I
loose
my selfe
in
séeking
thee
,
when
thou
art
found
of
sewe
but
I●iterat
Hindes
,
rude
Bores
,
and
hoary
peuy
fathers
,
that
kéepe
thée
in
petpetuall
●●●ance
,
in
vau●●s
,
vnder
false
boords
,
subtill
contriued
walls
,
and
in
horrible
darke
Dungions
,
bury
thée
most
vnchristianlike
without
Amen
〈◇〉
the
least
noise
of
a
Priest
or
Clarke
:
and
make
thee
rise
againe
at
their
pleasures
many
a
thousand
time
before
Doomes-day
:
and
yet
will
not
all
this
moue
thée
once
to
forsake
them
,
and
kéepe
company
with
a
Scholler
,
that
truly
knowes
how
to
vse
thée
?
By
this
time
I
had
framed
an
elaborate
Poeticall
building
,
a
neate
,
choyse
,
and
curious
Poem
,
the
first
fruites
of
my
mustcall
timing
findie
,
which
was
dispearst
into
a
quaint
valume
,
fairly
bound
vp
in
principal
vellum
,
double
fillerted
with
leafe-Gold
,
strong
most
Gentlemanlike
with
Cornation-silke
Riband
:
which
Booke
,
In●ustriously
heaped
with
waighty
Conceites
,
pretious
Phrases
,
and
wealthy
Numbers
,
I
Oliuer
Hubburd
,
in
the
best
fashion
I
might
,
presented
to
Sir
Christopher
Clutch-fist
,
(
whose
bountifull
vertue
I
blaze
in
my
first
Epistle
)
the
book
he
entertained
,
but
I
think
for
the
couer●sake
,
because
if
made
such
a
goodly
showe
on
the
backside
,
and
some
two
daies
after
returning
for
my
remimeration
,
I
might
espy
(
O
lamentable
sight
Madame
)
my
booke
dismembred
bery
tragically
,
the
Couer
ript
of
,
I
know
not
for
what
purpose
,
and
the
Cornation
s●ke
skings
puld
out
,
and
placst
in
his
spanish
leather
shooes
:
at
which
ruthfull
prospect
I
fell
downe
and
sounded
,
and
when
I
came
to
my selfe
againe
I
was
an
Ant
,
and
so
euer
since
I
haue
kept
me
.
The
Nightingale
,
There
keepe
thee
still
,
Since
all
are
Ill
:
Venture
no
more
,
T
is
better
be
a
litle
Ant
,
Then
a
great
man
,
and
liue
in
want
:
And
still
deplore
:
So
rest
thee
now
,
From
swoord
,
Booke
,
or
Plough
.
By
this
the
day
began
to
spring
,
And
seaze
vpon
her
watchfull
eies
:
When
more
Tree-Queristers
did
sing
,
And
euery
Bird
did
wake
and
rise
:
Which
was
no
sooner
seene
and
heard
,
But
all
their
prety
chat
was
mard
:
And
then
she
saide
,
We
are
betraide
,
The
day
is
vp
,
and
all
the
birds
,
And
they
abroad
will
blab
our
words
:
With
that
she
bad
the
Ants
farewell
,
And
all
they
likewise
Philomel
.
Away
she
slew
,
Crying
Teren
!
And
all
the
Industrious
Ants
in
throngs
,
Fell
to
their
worke
,
and
held
their
tongs
.
FINIS
.