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Mercurius Nonsencicus, written for the vse of the simple vnderstander by John Taylor.
Taylor, John, 1580-1653.
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Mercurius
Nonsencicus
.
WRITTEN
FOR
THE
Vse
of
the
simple
Vnderstander
.
By
JOHN
TAYLOR
.
Like
to
a
whirle-wind
in
a
Taylors
thimble
,
Or
like
a
gouty
Tumbler
,
quick
and
nimble
,
Or
like
Hay
making
in
a
showre
of
raine
,
Or
like
a
Wedding
where
there
are
not
twaine
;
This
booke
compar'd
,
and
uncompar'd
you
'l
find
,
As
like
as
is
the
Water
to
the
Winde
.
Printed
in
the
Yeere
,
1648.
Mercurius
Nonsencicus
.
THis
age
wherein
no
man
knowes
whether
he
lives
or
not
lives
,
whether
he
wakes
,
or
dreames
;
when
he
can
hardly
trust
his
eares
with
what
he
heares
,
believe
his
owne
eyes
,
wherewith
he
sees
,
or
give
credit
to
his
owne
heart
;
with
which
he
payes
it
with
thinking
,
Round
,
unsound
,
as
rotten
as
a
rag
,
with
a
W
for
Jack-adandy
.
A
Plot
,
a
Plot
,
a
most
horrible
,
terrible
,
execrable
,
detestable
,
abhominable
,
and
damnable
Plot
;
discovered
strangely
upon
Newmarket
Heath
,
where
(
time
out
of
minde
)
there
hath
been
a
Vault
with
a
secret
unknowne
Trap-doore
;
which
doore
being
left
open
(
by
negligence
)
an
old
blind
Woman
stumbled
,
and
tumbled
into
the
Vault
,
where
she
saw
40000.
Horse
,
all
Man'd
,
or
back'd
with
brave
,
bold
,
desperate
,
valiant
,
violent
,
coragious
Don
Quixots
,
Lord
Whachums
,
Knights
of
the
Sunne
,
and
of
the
Illustrious
order
of
the
burning
Pestle
,
with
many
Reformadoes
,
and
Rodomontadoes
,
and
others
:
it
is
a
strange
discovery
that
a
blind
Woman
was
the
first
that
saw
it
,
and
she
presently
told
it
to
a
deafe
Woman
,
the
deafe
Woman
related
it
to
a
lame
Woman
,
the
lame
Woman
told
it
to
a
dumb
Woman
,
and
she
came
post
upon
a
lame
Horse
,
and
discovered
the
whole
busines
to
me
as
I
have
related
to
you
,
what
it
will
come
to
I
can
tell
you
,
nothing
:
old
time
hath
made
more
Metamorphosis
lately
then
ever
Ovid
did
,
or
could
doe
;
time
hath
transformed
the
signe
of
St.
Martin
into
a
Goat
,
and
old
Charing
Crosse
into
Knive
hafts
,
and
Salt-sellers
,
meane
Men
are
Men
of
meanes
,
and
Men
of
meanes
are
meane
Men
,
without
meanes
,
money
,
Cloathes
or
creddit
:
Bulls
were
wont
to
beget
Calves
,
but
now
it
is
an
ordinary
thing
for
Calves
to
speake
Bulls
,
and
create
them
by
word
of
mouth
;
(
as
for
example
)
Goe
you
three
both
together
,
and
I
will
run
before
you
and
overtake
you
presently
;
or
as
a
fellow
lately
(
well
filled
with
drinke
)
said
that
he
could
drinke
noe
more
then
an
Apple
is
like
an
Oyster
;
but
he
could
sleepe
like
an
arrow
out
of
a
Bow
:
and
therefore
(
Sirra
)
have
a
care
how
you
behave
your selfe
when
you
come
to
present
an
Apple
to
my
Lords
Ape
,
or
my
Ladyes
Monkey
,
Kisse
your
legge
and
make
a
hand
finely
;
and
(
for
all
our
fooling
)
there
are
many
that
did
begin
a
monstrous
bigge
huge
Quarrell
,
that
would
be
glad
to
doe
their
best
to
be
quiet
,
and
end
a
brabling
businesse
:
twit
,
twat
,
tush
,
puffe
,
mew
,
all
are
but
words
to
fill
up
a
sheet
in
print
;
there
is
more
adoe
with
Iack-an-Apes
then
with
all
the
Beares
.
This
is
easie
stuffe
to
be
read
;
but
it
will
trouble
a
deepe
understanding
to
pick
out
the
meaning
;
Homicide
,
Fratricide
,
Matricide
,
Paricide
,
Regicide
(
in
the
dayes
of
King
Edmund
Ironside
)
was
on
the
Bank
side
,
and
in
Cheapside
accounted
as
bad
as
killing
of
folkes
,
blesse
us
from
a
mad
dogg
,
and
the
fall
of
a
Wind-Mill
:
all
Scots
be
not
Knaves
,
nor
are
all
English
men
over
burthened
with
honesty
;
for
though
a
soft
Mault
makes
a
sweet
fire
,
yet
all
is
not
Gold
that
glisters
,
and
there
is
now
as
much
difference
between
Egges
and
Onions
as
ever
there
was
.
When
a
mans
Corps
and
Capacity
are
both
grosse
,
it
is
signe
that
his
Body
and
his
understanding
are
Twinns
;
for
though
it
be
a
cruel
torment
for
a
wise
man
to
be
bound
in
a
Chaire
whilst
a
foole
talkes
him
to
death
,
yet
I
conclude
him
to
be
none
of
the
wisest
that
is
overmuch
taken
in
love
with
any
thing
that
is
written
in
this
Pamphlet
,
neither
hath
he
any
other
then
a
Tiffany
patience
that
is
very
angry
at
the
writer
that
cares
not
for
it
;
truth
doth
seldome
goe
without
a
scratcht
face
;
and
though
Mellancholicus
and
Pragmaticus
doe
play
O
Man
in
desperation
,
and
write
odly
,
madly
,
yet
I
am
so
tame
a
foole
that
I
doe
dare
neither
to
write
Knavishly
,
or
speake
wisely
;
though
(
perhaps
)
I
doe
now
and
then
shew
my
valour
in
thinking
truly
.
The
pestilent
penns
of
pestiferous
Pragmaticall
,
Aquaticall
poetasters
hath
sweat
out
whole
Reames
to
small
purpose
;
they
have
transformed
,
and
metamorphosed
Mercurie
into
more
shapes
then
ever
Proteus
had
:
most
curiously
curious
Mercurius
hath
beene
sublimated
like
a
Neapolitan
Unguent
or
Unction
with
a
pretence
to
cure
the
Kingdome
of
the
Morbus
Gallicus
,
Arbitrary
tyranny
;
but
all
those
nimble
feather
braind
,
froath
witted
Mercuriallists
have
done
no
better
then
playd
the
Iuggling
Alchymists
;
or
like
an
Imposture
Quacksalver
hath
turned
all
our
money
into
Quick-silver
,
with
hei
presto
't
is
gone
:
(
to
the
Devill
I
thinke
)
my selfe
,
with
some
hundreds
of
the
Kings
Servants
,
are
in
the
happy
condition
of
Poets
,
poore
and
pennylesse
,
our
Purses
being
turn'd
Brownists
,
not
enduring
a
crosse
to
come
neer
'em
;
but
the
most
of
us
are
practis'd
in
the
Carthusian
order
,
abstinence
or
fasting
(
Nolens
volens
)
so
that
whereas
in
the
dayes
of
Yore
,
Diebus
illis
,
Halcion
times
,
some
grosse
witted
sonns
of
ignorance
would
call
us
his
Majesties
Biefe-eaters
,
or
the
Kings
Cormorants
,
and
other
pritty
foolish
Apellations
,
and
Epethites
;
so
that
if
any
of
us
ever
were
Cormorants
,
I
am
sure
that
most
of
us
are
transformed
into
Camelions
,
Aire
,
Smoake
,
Vapours
,
words
and
winde
,
being
our
delicate
dainty
first
and
second
courses
;
yet
(
by
supernall
favour
and
providence
)
wee
hold
up
our
heads
,
stand
on
our
feet
,
looke
chearfully
,
and
talke
as
heartily
as
some
that
fare
deliciously
:
we
have
seene
some
high
floods
,
and
low
ebbs
,
and
that
part
or
spoake
in
Times
wheele
that
is
lowest
may
be
raised
;
in
the
meane
space
we
will
feede
upon
hope
till
we
can
get
better
Victualls
.
Greedy
Gatherers
of
too
much
Mammon
,
will
(
one
day
)
finde
it
like
the
gathering
of
so
much
Manna
,
it
will
turne
to
wormes
,
and
gnaw
the
Consciences
of
the
avaricious
possessors
;
great
faults
are
commonly
Gentlemen-ushers
to
great
punishmens
,
one
drawes
the
other
after
,
and
as
the
Thread
followes
the
Needle
,
even
so
proditorious
,
perfidious
,
and
presumptuous
actions
are
dog'd
by
self
guiltines
,
and
doom'd
by
divine
vengance
to
unavoyded
destruction
.
There
is
a
new
trade
lately
practis'd
in
England
,
which
is
to
cut
throats
,
and
kill
men
for
3.
or
4
.
s
.
a
weeke
,
they
say
the
Devill
himselfe
is
Master
of
the
Company
:
the
most
part
,
or
greatest
numbers
of
this
society
are
so
far
from
the
way
of
Peace
,
that
they
hate
the
peace
of
their
Countrey
:
they
have
banished
the
Peace
of
Conscience
,
the
Kings
peace
(
I
am
sure
)
they
have
broken
,
and
the
peace
of
God
,
they
(
through
want
of
understanding
)
have
no
stomack
to
.
In
the
Introduction
to
Grammer
(
Vulgarly
called
the
Accidence
)
there
is
the
Common
of
2
,
and
the
Common
of
3
;
but
right
and
true
bred
English
men
have
beene
Gramarians
in
more
Commons
then
2
or
3
:
we
had
a
House
of
Commons
Renouned
,
Religious
,
Venerable
,
and
honourable
,
and
should
be
in
that
reverend
regard
,
that
detraction
(
or
distraction
)
should
not
so
much
as
snarle
,
or
grumble
against
:
we
see
now
that
honorable
House
dayly
abus'd
,
traduc'd
,
and
expos'd
to
the
most
and
worst
of
what
transcendent
defamatory
tongues
,
or
pennes
can
(
out
of
griefe
of
heart
)
inveterate
mallice
,
spleenative
envy
,
or
the
gall
of
Bitternesse
,
speake
,
write
,
invent
or
publish
.
The
Common
Wealth
is
not
common
,
but
private
,
and
so
private
that
a
few
have
got
all
,
many
have
lost
all
,
and
the
greatest
number
have
ne're
a
whit
;
insomuch
that
the
Common
wealth
is
not
the
wealth
that
is
common
,
the
want
of
which
hath
made
me
and
many
thousands
to
be
much
troubled
with
the
Kings
Evill
.
The
Common
prayer
was
esteemed
a
good
Director
(
or
Direction
)
but
now
it
is
contradicted
by
another
Antidirectory
,
much
better
then
the
old
one
,
as
some
wise
men
say
.
The
Common
Purse
is
empty
,
the
Common
Treasure
is
invisible
;
the
Common
Counsell
are
Grave
,
and
wise
,
and
would
have
all
well
:
there
are
some
good
men
wanting
who
should
hasten
the
effecting
of
the
Common
safety
;
but
there
is
here
,
there
(
but
not
every where
)
a
Common
Whore
that
lyes
like
damnable
stumbling
blocks
,
that
the
Common
wayes
are
filthy
,
uneven
,
unmended
,
and
irreparable
,
whilst
our
Common
misery
is
continually
encreased
,
repaired
,
enlarged
,
extended
,
and
amplified
.
There
are
also
halfe
a
dozen
of
Cases
as
ablative
,
genitive
,
vocative
,
accusative
,
nominative
;
Reader
I
request
,
will
,
and
require
you
to
beare
with
my
misplacing
of
the
cases
,
I
pray
you
consider
that
all
things
are
out
of
order
,
great
men
and
small
men
,
low
men
and
tall
men
,
be
it
knowne
unto
all
men
that
there
is
a
bad
Case
,
a
good
Case
,
a
base
Case
,
a
meane
Case
,
a
Trebble
Case
,
a
desperate
Case
,
a
mad
Case
,
a
sad
Case
,
a
woefull
Case
,
a
wretched
Case
,
a
fine
Case
,
and
a
poore
Case
,
hey
all
six
and
six
.
But
hold
,
hold
,
wit
whither
wilt
thou
,
take
heed
(
old
Jack
Taylor
)
keep
thy
first
principles
,
stand
to
thy
promise
,
beware
of
writing
a
wise
word
,
it
,
and
,
of
,
for
,
by
,
from
,
to
,
at
,
wherefore
,
it
's
no
matter
when
,
or
why
,
make
an
end
to
no
end
,
and
as
thy
Title
was
intrincicall
,
so
let
thy
Epilogue
,
and
Catastrophe
be
nonsencicall
in
heroick
,
duncicall
,
and
naturall
,
artificiall
Verses
,
beyond
the
understanding
of
all
the
Colledges
,
or
Universities
of
either
Kent
or
Christendome
,
Christian
or
Shropshire
man
,
and
let
the
world
know
,
that
by
the
rules
of
Gallen
,
Hippocrates
,
Avicen
,
Paracelsus
,
or
Esculapius
himselfe
,
the
running
gout
will
never
make
a
good
footman
.
Like
to
th'
embrodered
Meadowes
of
the
Moone
,
Or
like
the
houres
'
twixt
six
and
seven
at
Noone
,
Or
like
a
Cock
that
wants
Stones
,
Spurs
,
and
Combe
,
Or
like
a
Traveller
that
's
ne're
from
home
,
Or
like
Tobacco
that
wants
stink
or
smoake
,
Or
like
the
Devill
in
Religious
Cloake
;
Such
is
this
Pamphlet
,
writ
with
such
advisement
,
As
troubles
not
the
State
,
or
what
the
Wise
meant
.
FINIS
.