The run-awyaes [sic] answer to a booke called, A rodde for runne-awayes. In vvhich are set downe a defense for their running, with some reasons perswading some of them neuer to come backe. The vsage of Londoners by the countrey people; drawne in a picture, artificially looking two waies, (foorth-right, and a-squint:) with an other picture done in lant-skipp, in which the Londoners and countrey-men dance a morris together. Lastly, a runne-awaies speech to his fellow run-awaies, arming them to meete death within the listes, and not to shunne him.
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The run-awyaes [sic] answer to a booke called, A rodde for runne-awayes. In vvhich are set downe a defense for their running, with some reasons perswading some of them neuer to come backe. The vsage of Londoners by the countrey people; drawne in a picture, artificially looking two waies, (foorth-right, and a-squint:) with an other picture done in lant-skipp, in which the Londoners and countrey-men dance a morris together. Lastly, a runne-awaies speech to his fellow run-awaies, arming them to meete death within the listes, and not to shunne him.
B. V., fl. 1625.
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A. Mathewes],
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THE
Run-awyaes
Answer
,
To
a
Booke
called
,
A
Rodde
for
Runne-awayes
.
IN
VVHICH
Are
set
downe
a
Defence
for
their
Running
,
with
some
Reasons
perswading
some
of
them
neuer
to
come
backe
.
The
vsage
of
LONDONERS
by
the
Countrey
▪
People
;
drawne
in
a
Picture
,
artificially
looking
two
waies
,
(
foorth-right
,
and
a-squint
:
)
With
an
other
Picture
done
in
Lant-skipp
,
in
which
the
Londoners
and
Countrey-men
dance
a
Morris
together
.
LASTLY
,
A
Runne-awaies
Speech
to
his
Fellow
Run-awaies
,
Arming
them
to
meete
Death
within
the
Listes
,
and
not
to
shunne
him
.
Printed
MDCXXV
.
TO
OVR
MVCH
RESPECTED
AND
VEry
worthy
Friend
,
Mr.
H.
CONDELL
at
his
Countrey-house
in
FVLLAM
.
SIR
,
AT
our
parting
from
London
to
vndertake
our
sadde
Peregrination
into
the
Countrey
,
(
amongst
our
Friends
who
are
hard
to
be
found
)
It
pleased
you
to
bestow
vpon
vs
a
free
and
Noble
Farewell
.
We
remember
it
with
thanks
,
which
cuts
off
the
sinne
of
Ingratitude
;
yet
because
Thankes
,
is
but
one
word
,
and
that
your
loue
cannot
receiue
a
Requitall
but
in
many
,
wee
send
you
a
little
bundle
of
Papers
,
full
.
For
being
Abusde
in
a
Booke
Printed
at
London
,
in
which
we
were
called
Runne-awayes
,
Wee
in
this
our
Defence
request
you
to
be
an
Arbiter
,
to
Iudge
,
whether
we
haue
not
iust
cause
,
to
stand
then
promisde
.
Bid
him
therefore
send
all
his
Paper-Kites
flying
from
his
Stall
,
quite
through
the
Citie
,
and
from
one
Eude
to
th'
other
to
giue
notice
of
this
our
Answere
.
Bid
him
likewise
to
tell
all
Stationers
,
who
haue
any
of
those
Bookes
(
called
A
Rodde
for
Run-awayes
)
that
it
were
good
for
'em
to
sell
them
away
as
fast
as
they
can
,
for
when
wee
come
to
Towne
,
they
shall
be
All
callde
in
.
Farewell
.
The
Runn-awayes
Answere
.
THere
hath
of
late
come
foorth
a
Three-sheete-printed-Pamphlet
(
as
if
the
Rodde
had
but
three
Twigges
only
)
written
(
as
the
Title
seemes
to
promise
)
by
some
Schoole-maister
,
for
he
calles
it
,
A
ROD
FOR
RVNNE-AWAIES
.
But
We
,
vpon
whom
those
poore
and
wretched
Names
are
pinned
,
no
way
enduring
so
to
be
lash'd
ouer
the
face
in
scorne
,
snatch
the
Rodde
out
of
his
hand
;
and
to
make
him
smart
a
little
,
thus
print
wee
our
Answere
to
those
bold
affronts
,
by
which
he
does
challenge
vs
,
vtterly
disdayning
to
be
called
Runne-awaies
:
and
vtterly
disclayming
those
offences
,
for
which
that
London
Whipper
is
so
ready
to
punish
vs.
First
then
for
the
Name
.
HEE
is
a
Runne-away
,
who
rather
then
he
will
learne
a
Trade
(
with
some
paynes
)
vnder
a
carefull
Maister
,
turnes
Roague
,
runnes
into
the
Countrey
a
Padding
▪
keepes
company
with
Gipseys
,
and
strowling
Pedlers
,
fatting
himselfe
with
the
lazy
bread
of
Sommer
,
tumbling
(
during
that
Season
)
in
a
Hay-cock
with
his
Dell
;
and
in
Winter
,
lying
snug
in
a
Brick-k●ll
with
his
Doxy
:
If
you
wonder
how
we
came
by
this
Language
?
you
must
thinke
,
that
in
our
Trauailes
we
could
not
choose
but
meete
with
Canters
.
Agen
:
He
is
a
Runne-away
,
that
being
prest
for
a
Soldier
,
runnes
away
from
his
Captaine
ere
he
be
sent
a
Ship-bord
,
or
from
his
Cullors
,
before
he
comes
to
the
Fight
.
He
is
a
Runne-away
,
who
hauing
got
loose
from
a
Sergeant
,
takes
his
heeles
,
and
runnes
away
from
him
.
They
are
Runne-awaies
,
who
in
a
Tauerne
Roaring
in
for
more
Wine
then
they
are
able
to
pay
,
giue
a
slippe
out
at
the
back
doore
,
and
so
pawne
a
Drawer
to
the
Barre
for
the
Reckoning
.
Lastly
,
they
are
Runne-awaies
,
who
lay
the
Key
vnder
the
doore
,
and
cry
,
Good
night
Land-lord
.
None
of
these
base
Ginges
are
wee
:
wee
scorne
to
sayle
in
such
stinking
Dung-boates
.
So
much
therefore
for
the
Name
of
Runne-awaies
.
Now
for
the
Matter
.
THe
very
Beginning
of
the
Booke
is
able
to
make
any
Coward
Runne
away
,
for
ther
's
a
Sett-Battaile
,
a
Field
appoynted
,
the
Van
comming
vp
,
and
London
leading
it
:
then
Shires
and
Counties
prest
to
martch
in
the
Reare
;
the
Generall
busy
,
Trompets
sounding
the
Alarum
,
our
Enemies
about
vs
,
and
the
Weapons
brandished
ouer
our
heads
,
which
threaten
to
cutte
our
throates
.
Hee
would
make
vs
beleeue
he
has
been
a
Soldado
by
his
termes
of
Warre
:
In
the
Field
dialect
wee
tell
him
,
that
true
it
is
,
when
the
Armada
of
Gods
anger
was
preparing
against
vs
,
when
the
Pestilence
beate
at
our
Citty
Gates
,
and
the
Arrowes
of
Infection
flew
into
our
Howses
,
when
in
the
heate
of
the
day
the
Mayne-battayle
gaue
ground
,
and
that
many
(
or
most
)
of
our
Commanders
left
the
Field
;
what
should
wee
doe
but
flye
?
It
was
not
out
of
base
feare
,
but
safety
:
It
was
not
out
of
a
desire
to
safety
only
,
but
feare
,
least
so
many
dropping
downe
euery
hower
before
our
faces
,
there
would
be
found
not
Officers
nor
Ministers
enow
to
fetch
off
the
wounded
,
or
bury
the
Dead
:
Had
we
not
reason
to
flye
?
Before
this
tempestious
weather
beate
vs
,
O!
what
glorious
Sun-beames
of
Exultations
,
Reioycings
,
Hopes
,
and
Comforts
were
rising
to
shine
vpon
vs
?
We
swallowed
vp
nothing
but
the
East
and
West-Indies
in
our
Imaginations
;
the
Golden-Age
was
comming
in
agen
:
Our
English
Almanacks
seem'd
to
speake
of
none
but
Holy-daies
:
Great-Brittaine
stood
on
the
toppe
of
her
white
Cliffes
triumphing
;
London
on
tiptoe
,
ouerlooking
all
other
Cities
in
the
swelling
pride
of
her
approaching
Fortunes
:
For
no
sooner
was
the
old
King
dead
,
but
our
gloomy
Noone
was
changed
into
the
cleerest
Euening
that
euer
our
liuing
Eyes
beheld
.
A
golden
Sunne
(
within
a
few
howers
)
lifted
vp
his
head
to
reuiue
vs
;
a
new
King
was
proclaymed
,
a
Iames
was
lost
,
but
a
Charles
was
found
:
A
Queene
was
to
come
from
France
,
and
that
Queene
arriued
in
England
:
A
Parliament
was
at
hand
,
the
Terme
not
farre
off
,
Triumphes
approaching
,
Pageants
setting
forward
to
meet
our
King
and
Queene
going
to
their
Coronation
.
No
People
could
be
fuller
of
ioy
,
no
City
prowder
of
happinesse
:
When
loe
!
a
volley
of
Thunder
shootes
,
and
batters
down
all
these
sumptuous
Buildings
:
And
was
it
not
time
to
flye
?
Heauen
saw
vs
boasting
in
our
owne
strengths
,
and
growing
angry
at
it
,
hath
turnd
it
into
weakenesse
:
Mirth
hath
shaken
handes
with
Mourning
,
Riches
with
Misery
,
Brauery
with
a
Winding
sheete
,
Prosperity
with
the
Pestilence
,
Health
with
Sicknesse
,
and
Life
with
Death
:
And
what
is
He
would
encounter
with
These
?
Hereupon
,
the
City
fledde
the
City
,
and
shun'd
that
Enemy
which
fallowed
her
,
and
hath
since
mette
her
in
euery
corner
:
London
was
great
with
Childe
,
and
(
with
a
fright
)
falling
in
Labor
(
her
owne
time
being
misreckoned
)
was
deliuered
of
none
but
Still-borne
Children
.
Neuer
was
such
a
sudden
Ioy
changed
into
so
sudden
a
Lamentation
:
Those
Belles
which
were
ready
to
cleane
the
Ayre
with
echoes
at
King
Charles
his
Coronation
,
did
nothing
presently
but
ring
out
Knelles
for
his
Subiects
;
by
which
meanes
,
as
there
is
no
Musicke
so
sweet
as
that
of
the
Churches
,
none
for
daies
and
nightes
together
hath
bin
so
iarring
,
so
that
in
13
weekes
more
then
33000.
haue
falne
dead
to
the
ground
at
their
dolefull
tunes
:
And
who
would
(
if
he
could
choose
)
make
one
in
such
dangerous
Peales
?
Had
wee
not
iust
cause
therefore
giuen
vs
to
flye
?
Be
not
you
then
(
good
Maister
Runne-away-Beater
)
so
sharpe
,
spare
your
Rodde
a
little
,
and
whippe
vs
not
for
going
to
see
our
*
Freinds
in
the
Countrey
,
we
doe
not
thinke
but
You
yourselfe
(
could
you
haue
gotte
a
Horse
)
would
haue
bin
one
of
the
Tribe
of
Gad
,
with
one
of
your
Comerades
;
for
ther
's
no
Dancing
now
to
your
Theatrian
Poeticall
Piping
:
Neither
your
Frierians
,
nor
Cock
pitterians
,
can
for
loue
or
money
helpe
you
to
a
Plaudity
,
we
wish
for
their
owne
sakes
(
and
yours
)
they
could
:
But
many
of
them
(
that
could
get
Winges
)
haue
kept
company
with
vs
in
our
flight
;
neyther
are
Wee
or
They
to
be
condemned
;
Flesh
and
Bloud
naturally
abhorres
dissolution
:
All
desire
to
begett
Children
,
but
none
loue
to
see
them
buried
:
so
mortally
doe
we
hate
the
name
of
Death
,
that
though
we
lye
in
our
last
Sheete
,
saue
one
(
which
must
winde
vs
,
)
we
hardly
endure
the
Name
of
Dying
.
The
very
Scriuener
who
makes
our
Willes
,
as
he
is
cunning
in
other
thinges
,
so
is
he
crafty
in
that
Conueyance
,
and
knowing
what
Word
will
fright
vs
,
he
goes
about
the
Bush
,
and
Writes
thus
:
When
it
shall
please
God
to
call
Vs
out
of
this
transitory
Life
:
We
must
heere
the
string
twang
out
Life
still
,
albeit
Deaths
cold
fingers
pull
vs
by
the
Noses
.
Agen
,
(
to
adde
one
handfull
more
of
Corne
to
this
Sheafe
of
Defence
,
made
vp
by
the
Run-awayes
,
)
Know
,
that
many
of
vs
that
haue
shut
vp
Shoppes
&
are
gon
,
are
yonger-Brothers
;
and
are
assur'de
,
that
euen
owne
Fathers
,
(
Knightes
by
Degrees
,
and
great
Men
in
Possessions
,
)
haue
for
sixe
or
seuen
yeares
together
,
suffred
(
nay
at
this
very
hower
doe
suffer
)
their
owne
Sonnes
,
(
yea
their
only
and
Eldest
Sonnes
)
miserably
to
languish
in
Coumpters
,
and
other
Prisons
,
vpon
two
shillings
a
weeke
maintenance
:
This
is
good
pollicy
to
tame
an
Vnthrift
,
but
little
charity
to
murder
a
Man
's
owne
Childe
:
It
's
a
safe
Locke
to
tye
to
a
Runne-awayes
Legge
,
but
ther
's
too
much
Iron
in
't
:
At
this
Ward
wee
haue
no
great
stomacks
to
lye
;
wee
find
our
Fathers
hard
enough
here
,
and
are
loath
to
tempt
their
affections
,
whether
they
will
come
to
London
,
and
cry
to
a
Iaylor
,
Fellow
turne
the
Key
,
let
me
see
in
what
nasty
Chamber
lyes
my
Sonne
.
Wee
are
better
as
we
are
,
and
therfore
fling
away
your
Rodde
,
and
doe
not
whippe
vs
for
flying
.
Besides
,
had
we
all
tarried
at
home
that
are
fledde
,
in
what
miserable
cases
(
according
to
humane
reason
,
not
diuing
into
the
deepe
and
insearchable
Iudgements
of
God
)
had
we
all
bin
?
If
the
Country
loues
vs
not
now
that
are
amongst
them
in
perfect
health
,
how
would
they
haue
hated
the
City
in
her
populous
Thronges
,
when
(
perhaps
)
foure
times
the
number
now
departed
,
had
then
bin
smitten
downe
by
the
Contagion
?
What
Markets
would
you
haue
had
then
?
Where
had
Meate
bin
found
to
fill
so
many
millions
of
mouthes
?
The
casting
out
sometimes
of
Merchandize
into
the
Sea
in
a
Storme
saues
the
rich
Venture
,
and
Our
being
driuen
from
the
Fleete
in
so
hideous
a
tempest
,
hath
(
we
hope
)
giuen
the
rest
of
the
Wether-beaten
Nauy
more
sea-roome
,
and
so
aduantage
to
meete
lesse
danger
.
Was
it
not
hie
time
to
take
our
heeles
and
be
gon
,
when
the
Doctors
themselues
playd
the
Runne-awayes
?
Doctors
for
the
Soule
,
and
Doctors
for
the
Body
,
they
both
fledde
:
Many
of
them
that
stood
the
Battaile
,
(
and
being
worthy
Commanders
,
fought
brauely
,
)
we
heare
are
falne
,
and
in
their
places
(
who
were
to
looke
to
the
Sicke
and
Wounded
Souldier
,
)
are
crept
into
your
City
,
a
crew
of
prating
Emperickes
,
cogging
Mowntibanckes
,
and
cheating
Quacksaluers
,
who
if
they
cure
one
,
kill
twenty
;
it
being
more
danger
for
an
infected
Man
to
fall
into
their
handes
,
then
for
a
sound
Person
to
liue
two
dayes
fasting
in
an
infected
House
.
But
what
talke
we
of
the
flight
of
these
?
for
Phisick
and
Chirurgery
,
(
those
two
diuine
Sisters
sent
from
Heauen
)
are
both
of
them
puzzelld
in
their
Readings
,
and
driuen
a
to
stand
in
their
owne
Practise
.
This
Sicknes
turnes
Knowledge
into
Ignorance
,
for
experimented
Salues
and
Medicines
forfet
their
wonted
Vertues
to
astonishment
and
admiration
.
Our
Flight
then
you
see
is
Warranted
by
Ecclesiasticall
,
Martiall
,
Polyticall
,
and
Phisicall
Authority
:
Let
vs
not
therefore
here-after
be
termed
Runne-awayes
;
for
though
many
of
our
Fellow
-
Londoners
are
in
our
absence
turned
into
Pine-trees
,
our
hopes
are
at
our
Comming
home
,
to
begett
a
new
and
prosperous
Plantation
.
Well
did
the
Rodde-maker
indeed
condemne
vs
for
not
leauing
our
Armor
behind
vs
when
we
ran
from
the
Army
,
(
some
peeces
of
Siluer
to
mainteyne
the
Poore
:
)
But
whole
Troupes
of
Vs
haue
bin
so
beaten
in
this
Country-Leaguer
,
that
we
haue
Siluer
little
enough
to
mainteyne
our selues
:
Beside
,
Numbers
(
we
are
in
feare
)
will
be
so
blind
with
the
Country
dust
flying
vp
into
their
eyes
,
they
will
hardly
finde
the
right
Key-hole
whilst
they
liue
(
as
they
should
doe
)
to
open
Shoppes
agen
;
the
Wardes
of
the
Lockes
(
if
not
well
Oyld
before
)
will
by
that
time
(
t'
is
thought
)
grow
rusty
.
Let
the
Rich
miserly
Runne-awaies
,
who
fl●do●
to
saue
their
Liues
for
their
Moneys
sake
,
and
to
saue
their
Golden
Idolls
for
their
owne
sake
,
let
them
(
in
Gods
name
)
pay
soundly
for
their
Horse
race
;
who
haue
too
much
Iuice
may
endure
a
squesing
.
If
we
left
our
Houses
,
and
No
body
to
keepe
them
,
t'
is
but
the
fashion
of
Great-men
,
who
reare
vp
Huge
Buildings
,
in
which
well
Rattes
and
Spiders
more
often
then
Hospitable
Tennants
.
Now
whereas
your
Qui
mihi
Discipulus
,
(
with
his
Birchen
Septer
in
his
hand
)
●hreatens
to
fetch
Blood
from
vs
,
by
telling
what
terrible
Frightes
we
are
like
to
be
put
into
at
our
comming
back
:
Alas
!
He
drawes
a
Bowe
too
big
for
his
strength
,
and
shootes
that
Arrow
without
any
ayme
.
What
did
Iob
,
who
had
seuen
Sonnes
and
three
Daughters
,
7000.
Sheepe
,
and
3000.
Camells
,
500.
yoke
of
Oxen
,
and
500
shee
Asses
:
to
him
one
Messenger
came
,
and
told
him
the
Sabaeans
had
tooke
away
his
Oxen
from
the
Plough
,
and
the
Asses
,
killing
his
Seruants
:
An
other
came
and
sayd
,
that
Fire
from
Heauen
had
burned
vp
his
Sheepe
and
Shepheards
:
An
other
that
the
Caldeans
had
seizd
vpon
his
Cammells
,
and
slew
the
Men
:
An
other
that
all
his
Children
were
slayne
by
the
fall
of
the
House
,
as
they
were
Banqueting
at
their
eldest
Brothers
.
But
what
sayd
Job
?
Naked
I
came
,
and
Naked
I
must
hence
:
The
Lord
hath
Giuen
,
and
the
Lord
hath
Taken
.
Doe
you
thinke
we
are
Cast-awaies
,
because
counted
Run-awaies
?
What
should
we
feare
?
Say
at
our
Returne
to
London
,
our
Friends
be
departed
,
our
Kindred
lost
,
or
Seruants
dead
,
and
our
Goods
spent
vpon
Whores
in
Tauernes
;
Or
say
,
that
comming
out
of
the
fresh
Ayre
,
and
falling
sicke
,
none
of
you
will
come
neere
vs
,
because
we
Fled
from
you
:
Nay
,
say
that
Ludgate
or
the
Compters
must
be
our
Innes
,
where
if
Infection
setts
her
Markes
vpon
vs
,
neither
Creditor
,
Phisition
,
Surgion
nor
Apothecary
will
resort
to
comfort
vs
:
Yet
haue
we
a
helpe
in
all
this
extremity
;
there
is
one
Anchor
to
ride
at
in
the
fowlest
Weather
:
One
Friend
hath
promised
to
stick
to
vs
all
;
and
that
Friend
,
is
the
Deere
,
Louing
and
Beloued
Earth
:
When
Sonne
nor
Daughter
will
come
neere
our
Coffin
,
but
shun
our
Carcas
as
loathsome
Carion
,
yet
euen
then
,
that
good
Grandame
(
the
aged
Earth
)
will
open
her
Armes
and
Hugge
vs
,
and
lay
vs
in
Beddes
,
to
take
our
euerlasting
Sleepes
,
And
shall
we
be
affrayd
to
come
back
to
London
?
No
:
for
albeit
your
Whip-deedle
was
so
bold
to
tell
vs
,
that
Londoners
in
the
en●
of
the
last
great
S●cknes
,
comming
nere
the
City
,
looked
pale
,
like
men
going
to
Execution
,
that
comparison
frights
not
vs
;
we
,
●n
plaine
&
merry
English
bid
the
Twigger
,
not
●o
be
in
such
feare
of
our
comming
backe
:
for
an
order
will
bee
taken
for
some
of
vs
,
neuer
to
call
at
the
Counter
for
a
Freemans
Horse
,
to
carry
him
on
foot
to
Ludgate
.
A
many
of
our
Iouiall
Fraternitie
are
glad
they
haue
this
vnpolitike
aduantage
.
They
must
haue
been
driuen
to
studie
for
a
cleanly
excuse
,
which
heer●
of
it selfe
(
without
teaching
)
is
growne
very
mannerly
.
There
bee
men
that
dare
eate
Spiders
:
Monkeyes
swallow
them
,
and
by
them
get
sweet
breaths
;
why
then
should
not
many
Limbes
of
our
Estates
bee
made
the
sounder
by
this
Infectious
fracture
?
There
is
an
Ireland
to
flie
to
,
and
a
Low-countries
to
roare
in
,
and
a
Wales
,
to
keepe
the
winde
of
Lawyers
from
vs
with
her
Mountaines
:
Wee
can
bee
Bankerupts
on
this
side
,
and
Gentlemen
of
a
Company
beyond-Sea
:
bee
burst
at
London
,
and
piec'd
vp
in
Rotterdam
.
The
Sea
is
a
Purger
,
and
at
Sea
must
our
Fortunes
take
Phisicke
.
Amongst
many
other
euils
,
which
might
terrifie
men
from
repayring
to
London
,
the
griping
hands
of
Clarkes
of
Churches
,
and
their
Sextons
,
and
the
villanous
doggednesse
of
vncharitable
Bearers
,
are
two
maine
ones
.
Too
many
crie
out
vpon
their
crueltie
;
they
flea
the
liuing
,
and
dishonor
the
dead
,
by
tearing
money
out
of
poore
peoples
throats
,
at
the
buriall
of
Husbands
,
Wiues
,
or
Children
,
when
it
were
greater
almes
,
to
abate
from
such
Vulturous
Deuourers
(
those
currish
Coffin-Tossers
)
their
vnconscionable
racking
demands
,
and
to
giue
it
to
the
suruiuing
distressed
Creatures
.
Wee
fare
better
in
the
Countrey
;
for
there
wee
pay
neither
for
Belles
nor
Bearers
,
neither
Minister
,
Vicar
,
Sir
Domine
,
nor
his
Clarke
will
take
a
penie
for
any
of
vs.
And
they
deale
noblier
,
then
wee
heare
a
Citizen
was
dealt
with
,
in
a
Towne
not
aboue
two
miles
from
London
,
whose
Mayd-seruant
there
ending
her
life
,
the
Hatches
of
a
Ship
are
not
so
close
,
as
the
doores
and
windowes
of
that
infidelian
Village
were
;
not
one
durst
for
money
,
digge
a
graue
,
no
reward
bribe
the
Clunnicors
to
carry
the
body
to
Church
:
insomuch
that
the
Master
of
this
Seruant
was
compelled
with
sixteene
shillings
(
for
vnder
they
would
not
goe
)
to
hire
foure
London-Bearers
,
to
carry
her
to
her
graue
,
whose
casting
vp
likewise
cost
a
price
extraordinary
.
This
dreadfull
season
of
so
many
gastly
apparitions
,
should
(
as
wee
thinke
)
fright
all
wickednesse
out
of
the
Citie
:
but
wee
heare
it
does
not
.
For
all
the
distance
of
miles
betweene
you
and
vs
,
the
swearing
and
cursing
amongst
some
of
you
,
leaues
a
tingling
in
our
eares
.
For
,
one
woman
hauing
left
Egges
in
a
roome
at
her
going
foorth
,
and
missing
them
(
as
forgetting
where
shee
layd
them
)
at
her
comming
in
,
wished
that
the
Plague
might
consume
them
that
eate
them
.
Yet
after
her
anger
was
past
,
and
forgetting
her
curse
,
they
were
drest
,
and
eaten
by
her
children
,
all
of
them
dying
the
next
day
after
.
You
know
this
better
then
wee
,
and
are
neere
to
Blacke-Friers
where
the
Curse
fell
;
if
you
haue
a
minde
to
examine
the
truth
.
This
was
a
Rod
for
a
Curser
:
but
this
that
is
held
vp
next
,
was
a
Rod
to
whip
Presumption
.
A
young
man
hauing
some
place
in
a
Parish
Church
in
London
,
being
(
as
to
vs
it
was
reported
)
to
locke
vp
the
Church-yard
,
called
to
a
man
,
who
stood
amazed
at
the
deepe
graues
;
and
looking
into
one
that
was
not
filled
vp
,
the
other
called
to
him
to
Come
away
,
and
(
after
a
scoffing
manner
)
told
him
,
he
were
best
stay
there
all
night
,
and
take
vp
his
lodging
.
No
,
quoth
the
other
,
you
may
lye
heere
(
for
ought
I
know
)
before
mee
.
I
lye
heere
(
said
hee
:
)
see
,
I
can
lye
heere
at
my
pleasure
;
and
so
leaping
into
the
graue
,
and
spreading
his
body
vpon
the
dead
,
out
hee
came
presently
in
a
iesting
manner
:
But
going
home
,
sickened
that
night
,
and
lay
there
the
next
day
in
earnest
.
We
haue
no
such
foule-mouthed
women
neere
the
Villages
wee
incampe
in
:
no
such
desperate
youths
so
to
tempt
Fate
.
No
,
no
,
giue
the
Countrey
people
their
due
,
and
there
are
none
like
them
liuing
vpon
the
face
of
the
earth
.
The
true
picture
of
the
Countrey
people
.
IT
is
reported
,
that
the
gates
of
Innes
,
and
doores
of
Victualling-houses
are
lock'd
against
vs
,
and
that
we
are
vsed
like
Dogges
.
Wee
stand
vp
for
the
Countrey
:
This
is
false
:
T
is
an
arrant
lye
:
for
all
the
Countrey
people
take
their
houses
of
purpose
for
Londoners
:
and
for
vsage
,
they
make
more
of
vs
,
then
they
can
of
their
owne
kinne
.
Most
deare
are
they
to
the
worst
Citizen
that
comes
within
their
doores
:
Marry
wee
must
tell
you
,
those
are
not
very
many
;
and
the
reason
is
,
they
will
not
(
in
a
dangerous
time
)
pester
men
together
.
So
well-giuen
are
they
,
that
continually
they
pray
for
vs
:
and
when
(
in
the
open
fieldes
,
for
ayre
sake
,
or
vnder
a
hedge
for
coolenesse
)
wee
sit
downe
to
eate
or
drinke
,
they
(
good
soules
)
will
not
touch
so
much
as
a
bit
of
our
Bread
;
it
shall
not
be
said
,
They
turned
vs
out
like
staruelings
.
So
mannerly
are
they
(
now
)
growne
,
that
if
two
or
three
Citizens
walke
through
a
Towne
,
all
the
Countrey
people
step
presently
in
at
doores
,
onely
in
modestie
to
giue
them
the
Wall.
And
so
cleanly
are
they
in
euery
paltry
Village
,
that
if
there
bee
but
ten
stragling
houses
,
you
shall
not
for
your
heart
see
a
foule
paire
of
sheets
in
any
one
of
'
em
.
T
is
reported
in
London
,
that
wee
are
lodged
in
Barnes
,
in
Hay-lofts
,
Hay-cocks
,
and
Stackes
of
Straw
:
t
is
true
,
but
why
?
Alas
!
when
Londoners
that
haue
trauaild
hard
,
scramble
to
a
Towne
(
all
faint
and
weary
)
the
honest
Country
people
,
point
to
such
places
,
to
the
ende
they
may
there
lye
soft
,
till
their
chambers
bee
prouiding
.
O!
they
are
the
louingest
wormes
Earth
euer
sent
forth
:
offer
them
money
,
they
scorne
to
touch
it
:
neither
(
hauing
so
many
Gold-Smiths
amongst
them
)
doe
they
weigh
Gold.
Reach
to
take
'em
by
the
hand
,
they
will
not
doe
it
for
an
hundred
pound
.
And
why
?
Shall
they
and
we
be
Haile-fellow
well
met
?
How
grossely
doe
they
wrong
them
,
that
report
,
how
they
stop
their
noses
at
vs
,
&
would
make
Bonfires
in
their
Townes
to
bee
ridd
of
vs
?
This
is
another
lye
:
They
neuer
come
neere
any
of
vs
,
but
they
are
ready
(
Kinde
whorsons
)
to
fall
downe
at
our
feet
:
and
for
ridding
vs
away
;
why
,
take
your
leaue
of
them
neuer
so
often
,
any
Townesman
thinkes
himselfe
halfe
vndone
,
if
he
but
see
a
Londoner
Departing
.
Much
more
could
wee
speake
in
their
praises
,
but
wee
are
afraid
they
le
bee
angry
at
this
;
for
they
loue
not
to
haue
their
good
deedes
proclaimed
to
the
World.
Wee
will
therefore
conceale
,
what
they
would
haue
hidden
.
And
albeit
wee
cannot
glew
vp
Mens
lippes
,
we
know
what
we
know
of
these
People
,
and
a
good
many
of
vs
are
sure
to
be
Bound
to
them
for
euer
.
Leaue
Them
,
and
now
to
our Selues
.
NOw
shall
you
vnderstand
what
we
doe
,
and
how
we
liue
▪
or
,
though
your
Beadle
who
Whippes
Runne-awaies
saies
,
that
we
are
merry
in
our
Countrey
houses
,
and
sitte
safe
(
as
we
thinke
)
from
the
gun-shotte
of
this
Contagion
,
in
our
Orchards
and
Gardens
:
Yet
we
would
haue
him
know
,
that
we
looke
back
vpon
our
Disconsolate
Mother
(
the
City
,
)
we
sigh
at
her
sorrowes
,
weepe
for
her
distresse
,
and
are
heauy
in
Soule
,
but
to
remember
her
Lamentations
.
Farre
though
She
be
from
vs
,
yet
doe
her
Miseries
flye
into
our
Bosomes
:
And
albeit
(
out
of
humane
frailety
)
we
left
her
hoping
thereby
not
to
fall
into
Deaths
handes
,
(
O
wretched
and
deceiaued
Men
that
we
are
!
)
Death
hath
with
his
long
Arme
,
reacht
vs
and
our
Families
;
and
therefore
,
scithence
there
is
no
Corner
in
the
Kingdome
(
were
it
as
vast
as
the
World
)
to
hide
vs
from
his
Face
,
thus
doe
we
Arme
one
an
other
against
him
.
In
these
and
the
like
Speeches
(
now
following
)
doe's
the
Absent
Londoner
giue
his
fellow
Citizen
a
little
Consolation
.
A
Run-awaies
Speech
to
his
Fellow
Run-awaies
,
Arming
them
(
though
flying
from
Death
)
to
meete
Death
brauely
,
and
face
to
face
.
O
My
deere
Brothers
,
and
Copartners
in
misery
!
Death
is
a
cruell
Creditor
,
and
will
haue
all
that
we
owe
him
.
Man
is
an
imperfect
Garden
,
and
to
keepe
it
from
being
ouer-run
with
Weedes
,
it
must
be
turn'd
into
a
Graue
.
As
our
Birth
brings
the
beginning
of
all
things
,
so
our
Death
shewes
vs
the
end
of
all
things
:
For
if
thou
hast
liued
but
one
day
,
thou
hast
seen
all
that
All
Men
before
in
the
World
euer
saw
;
the
same
Light
,
the
same
Night
;
they
came
in
as
thou
did'st
,
and
went
out
as
thou
must
.
Death
then
being
a
Part
of
our Selues
,
why
should
we
flye
our Selues
?
Men
,
nor
their
Liues
are
measur'd
by
the
Ell
,
but
by
the
Spanne
:
No
matter
how
long
Life
is
,
but
how
Good
:
No
matter
how
Short
,
so
the
End
be
sweet
:
It
is
but
Once
,
and
what
happens
but
once
can
not
be
grieuous
.
Nothing
makes
Death
dreadfull
,
but
that
which
followes
Death
:
The
After-Reckoning
troubles
all
our
Arithmetick
how
to
Cast
it
vp
:
If
nothing
were
to
be
hoped
for
after
this
Life
,
the
basest
Creature
were
more
happy
then
Man.
One
intreated
Caesar
that
he
might
be
put
to
death
,
because
he
was
Old
▪
and
Lame
and
C●●zed
:
But
(
quoth
Caesar
)
Ar't
sure
to
be
dead
Then
?
Let
vs
all
be
Caesars
:
Whether
we
liue
or
dye
,
lett
vs
be
like
Belles
which
at
Coronations
and
Funeralls
are
one
and
the
same
Ring
:
In
Health
or
Sicknes
,
Crosses
or
Comforts
,
Calmes
or
Tempests
,
in
Countrey
or
in
City
,
so
Tune
our
Soules
,
that
all
the
Notes
may
be
Sett
for
Heauen
.
For
Death
hath
his
A
B.
C.
printed
on
euery
thing
we
looke
vpon
.
To
behold
Sheetes
turnd
downe
(
at
bedde-time
)
puts
vs
in
minde
,
that
that
's
the
last
Garment
which
we
shall
euer
weare
.
If
a
Cloath
be
but
layd
on
a
Table
,
thinke
on
a
Coarse
,
and
(
in
feeding
)
say
to
thy selfe
;
I
fatten
this
Body
for
Wormes
,
which
one
day
(
how
soone
J
know
not
)
will
fatten
themselues
on
mee
.
Our
Last
Day
is
the
Maister-day
,
looke
to
that
well
,
and
the
Calender
of
thy
life
goes
well
.
As
thus
we
were
Fortifying
our selues
against
the
Batteries
of
Death
,
into
our
company
rushes
a
Londoner
,
(
ore
that
fights
vnder
our
Countrey
Cullors
,
)
and
Hee
in
a
passionate
Exclamation
,
cryes
out
,
Are
you
sending
an
Answere
to
The
Rodde
for
Runne-awayes
?
And
haue
you
written
so
fully
in
praise
of
our
Countrey-Landlords
;
I
am
a
Tennant
as
you
are
,
let
me
pay
them
my
Rent
too
,
and
so
intreated
that
in
our
Packet
,
his
Letters
of
Commendations
might
be
inclosed
,
which
begin
thus
.
An
other
manner
of
Picture
,
drawne
in
Lant-skip
,
of
the
Countrey
,
shewing
as
well
as
the
other
,
and
(
as
some
say
that
are
trauaild
into
those
places
)
trewer
.
VT
que
erat
impatiens
irae
—
O
(
quoth
he
!
)
Wee
that
haue
left
London
,
ran
from
a
Storme
to
fall
vpon
a
Ship-wrack
;
to
saue
our
throates
from
cutting
amongst
Lambes
,
we
haue
been
bitten
by
Serpents
,
stung
by
Adders
,
worried
by
Wolues
,
and
sett
vpon
by
Lyons
.
That
Name
(
of
Londoner
)
which
had
wont
to
draw
out
a
whole
Towne
to
stare
vpon
him
,
and
a
Church-yeard
full
of
People
(
after
Seruice
)
to
gape
vpon
his
fine
Cloathes
,
spruce
silke-Stockins
,
and
neate
steeletto-fied
Beard
:
That
Name
,
to
be
Called
by
which
,
all
the
Land
(
from
one
end
to
the
other
)
sends
her
Sonnes
,
here
to
Sow
their
Clownary
,
and
to
Reape
Witte
,
out
of
that
Witte
,
to
Thrash
Wealth
,
and
by
that
Wealth
to
climbe
to
Honor
:
That
Name
is
now
so
ill
,
that
he
is
halfe
hanged
in
the
Countrey
that
has
it
:
As
Spanish
Women
(
in
Sir
Francis
Drakes
time
)
had
wont
to
still
their
Ninnios
(
their
little
Children
,
)
with
crying
out
,
Hush
,
the
Drake
comes
:
So
now
,
Men
,
Women
and
Children
,
cry
out
,
Away
,
Flye
,
a
Londoner
comes
.
In
Rufus
his
Reigne
,
an
English-man
durst
not
in
his
owne
Countrey
say
he
was
an
English-man
;
a
Londoner
now
is
at
the
same
passe
.
Be
a
Londoner
neuer
so
reuerend
for
Age
,
neuer
so
Gallant
,
neuer
so
full
of
Gold
and
Siluer
,
neuer
so
sweet
in
behauiour
,
so
bewitching
in
Language
,
and
but
once
come
to
be
examined
by
(
those
Russet
Images
of
Authority
)
the
Countrey
Bill-men
,
he
speakes
to
the
North
wind
,
courts
a
Porpose
at
Sea
,
seekes
to
soften
a
Rocke
,
and
stroakes
a
Beare
in
the
Bayting
:
Euery
one
of
these
Tytiries
is
a
Case
of
Rapiers
to
a
single
Ponyard
.
It
is
no
Tickling
thē
like
Troutes
,
to
make
'em
turne
vp
their
Bellies
;
No
,
he
that
makes
himselfe
a
Lambe
amongst
them
is
worried
:
Feed
a
Foole
so
long
as
he
will
cramme
,
and
he
bursts
his
Belly
:
The
more
you
fawne
on
them
,
the
sooner
they
flye
in
your
face
:
As
Heate
makes
a
flea
to
skippe
,
so
the
warme
breath
of
a
Londoners
mouth
is
able
to
make
a
Hay-Gee
Gentleman
ready
to
leape
out
of
his
skinne
through
feare
.
Silly
Creatures
!
their
Countrey
Spirits
goe
but
with
Wherries
,
Oares
would
drowne
them
;
but
miserable
Animals
are
they
to
be
so
cowardly
,
for
Feare
is
a
terrible
Hangman
,
and
his
Halters
doe
they
tye
about
their
Owne
Neckes
.
What
can
be
more
Noble
then
to
doe
Good
?
and
what
more
Good
then
not
to
doe
ill
?
But
here
in
the
Countrey
(
amongst
the
Barbarous
sort
)
he
is
counted
a
Varlet
that
dares
be
mercifull
,
and
he
a
good
Townse-man
that
dares
turne
Diuell
.
To
goe
Braue
here
,
and
for
a
Clowne
not
to
care
a
Straw
for
you
:
Nay
,
in
a
Drincking-schoole
to
haue
him
in
his
Sweate
sitte
aboue
you
,
and
giue
you
base
language
,
which
you
dare
not
for
your
guttes
but
put
vppe
,
is
no
more
disgrace
then
to
stand
Bare
to
a
Constable
in
England
,
goe
Lowzy
in
Ireland
,
or
to
Fare
hard
in
Spayne
.
To
stand
and
Ieere
a
Londoner
in
scorne
,
as
he
passes
along
,
is
the
Countrey
Posture
:
To
walke
by
,
with
an
insinuating
face
,
lifting
vp
the
Beauer
,
and
crindging
to
a
Carter
is
our
City-Posture
.
If
now
you
demand
how
amongst
these
Heluetians
,
we
weare
out
our
wearisome
time
;
Here
's
one
of
the
Bottoms
.
Of
the
Kinges
of
Macedon
,
who
succeeded
Alexander
the
Great
,
some
were
afterwards
glad
to
become
Ioyners
,
Scriueners
,
Painters
and
such
like
:
So
Dionisius
King
of
Sicily
,
kept
a
Schoole
in
Corinth
:
So
Aelfrede
a
Saxon
,
King
of
England
,
was
forced
in
extremity
to
dwell
with
a
Cow-herd
in
Summerset-shire
:
And
so
,
many
Citizens
that
haue
been
brauer
Fellowes
then
Whifflers
on
Simon
and
Iudes
Day
,
are
fayne
(
in
a
number
of
Shires
through
England
)
to
turne
Hay-makers
,
Cock
Barley
,
and
sweat
with
Pitching
the
Cart
with
Corne
,
thereby
to
win
the
hearts
of
those
,
whose
loues
by
no
alurements
can
be
won
to
them
:
For
as
Pitty
amongst
the
Stoickes
was
held
a
vitious
Passion
;
So
our
Countrey
Gnoffes
(
Hob
,
Dick
,
and
Hick
)
are
turnd
Stoickes
,
and
hate
Pitty
worse
then
a
Lawyer
does
a
Clyent
in
Forma-Pauperis
,
These
are
the
sower
Plummes
with
which
we
haue
bene
fed
in
the
Countrey
;
we
send
them
to
you
for
Samples
;
but
if
you
should
after
dinner
haue
all
these
sorts
of
Raw
Fruict
set
before
you
,
which
were
gathred
for
vs
,
and
that
you
were
constrayned
to
eate
them
,
as
we
were
,
it
is
impossible
but
to
driue
you
into
Consumptions
,
for
many
of
vs
here
are
falne
into
that
Languishing
Disease
and
we
feare
it
will
follow
vs
to
London
.
To
London
!
O
Best-beloued
of
Cities
,
what
sorrowes
doe
feele
when
we
name
thee
,
because
euen
then
we
can
not
see
thee
?
As
Children
long
banished
from
Parents
,
at
their
first
sight
of
them
,
Teares
on
eythers
side
(
of
Ioy
)
will
seale
vp
all
vtterance
of
Language
,
so
will
it
fare
with
vs
when
we
behold
Thee
.
Astonished
shall
we
stand
,
too
heare
thee
relate
the
Tragicall
Ouerthrowes
of
thy
Sonnes
and
Daughters
,
(
our
Brothers
and
Sisters
:
)
And
as
sadly
wilt
thou
sitte
,
listning
to
the
Stories
of
our
Peregrinations
,
in
this
Wildernes
of
English
Wilde-men
.
Nightes
and
dayes
hast
thou
opened
thy
Gates
to
receiue
them
into
thy
buildings
:
How
often
hast
thou
nourished
them
with
the
Milke
of
thy
Brestes
?
How
often
hast
thou
emptied
thy
Coffers
,
to
furnish
them
with
Money
?
How
many
of
their
Sonnes
hast
thou
taken
from
the
Plough
,
and
from
their
Poore
and
Rusticall
Parents
,
and
plac'd
those
Sonnes
(
after
thou
hadst
Tutord
them
)
on
the
Pinacles
of
Honor
?
not
only
to
stand
there
with
commanding
Eyes
ouer
thy
Inhabitants
(
O
now
deiected
London
!
)
but
from
thence
,
thou
hast
prefer'd
them
,
to
ride
in
more
glorious
Chariots
,
and
to
attend
as
Councellors
,
on
many
of
our
English
Kinges
.
Yet
(
ingratefull
as
they
are
!
)
Vs
haue
they
in
our
sorest
extremities
,
thrust
out
of
Doores
,
denyed
vs
house-roome
,
euen
in
their
Stables
amongst
their
Horses
,
refuzde
for
Money
to
throw
vs
Meate
,
(
as
Hunters
doe
to
their
Dogges
:
)
and
vsing
vs
,
our
Wiues
and
Children
,
(
numbers
of
vs
being
their
owne
naturall
Children
)
with
a
more
then
Turkish
crueltie
;
As
if
none
els
in
this
Kingdome
had
deserued
punishment
from
Heauen
,
but
thou
only
(
deerest
Mother
,
)
and
that
God
were
the
God
of
a
City
alone
,
and
not
of
the
Countrey
.
But
stay
,
whither
are
wee
caried
?
why
does
this
torrent
of
mourning
and
complaining
breake
in
to
ouerwhelme
vs
,
when
an
Arme
from
heauen
hath
stucke
vp
a
Land-marke
to
saue
vs
from
drowning
?
The
weekely
Bills
are
come
downe
(
like
the
Doue
out
of
Noahs
Arke
,
with
her
Oliue-branch
,
a
blessed
signe
that
the
waters
are
fallen
!
)
O
excellent
Musicke
!
See
fellow-Citizens
,
Death
hath
not
cut
off
so
many
as
he
did
in
his
foure
last
Battails
,
by
3000.
persons
and
odde
.
God
begins
to
repent
him
of
his
anger
,
albeit
numbers
of
vs
repent
not
of
our
sinnes
.
Celestiall
harmony
played
vpon
3000
strings
;
the
Bells
haue
à
desire
to
lessen
their
Consort
,
they
haue
wearied
themselues
with
playing
sad
lessons
,
and
deafned
the
Ayre
to
stay
day
and
night
to
heare
them
.
These
are
Bankets
vnlookt
for
(
therefore
the
sweeter
;
these
are
comforts
vndeserued
,
(
and
therefore
the
welcomer
.
)
Our
hearts
being
not
a
little
(
but
wonderfully
)
reuiued
,
we
will
with
some
Tales
of
our
owne
misfortunes
here
in
the
Countrey
,
bestow
vpon
you
one
half
houres
recreation
.
A
Londoner
of
great
Estate
,
riding
at
the
beginning
of
the
Contagion
,
with
his
wife
and
two
onely
children
(
hauing
no
more
)
was
for
his
money
well
receiud
into
a
Town
,
lodged
in
a
faire
house
,
the
country-neighbors
resorted
to
him
,
and
were
glad
of
welcomes
,
for
their
stomackes
were
not
so
subiect
to
Qualmes
,
and
watry
spittings
,
as
since
they
are
fallen
into
.
But
in
the
end
,
God
(
to
shew
how
far-soeuer
we
flie
,
hath
wings
to
ouer-take
vs
)
laid
his
hand
vpon
this
Londoners
two
children
,
strucke
them
with
sicknesse
first
,
and
in
a
few
dayes
after
with
Death
.
Being
dead
,
the
Londoner
(
struck
in
yeares
)
fell
into
consideration
of
his
leauing
the
Citie
,
&
(
full
of
sorrow
)
much
lamented
his
departing
from
it
,
most
peremptorily
condemning
him selfe
,
as
guilty
of
pulling
downe
the
wrath
of
heauen
vpon
his
two
sweet
Babes
,
for
his
hastie
flying
(
like
Adam
)
out
of
Gods
reach
,
when
at
the
holding
vp
of
a
finger
,
hee
would
finde
him
out
.
This
added
some
heauy
weights
to
his
sorrow
,
yet
this
seemed
nothing
,
to
what
was
layd
vpon
him
afterwards
.
For
his
two
children
lying
dead
vpon
a
table
,
the
Minister
would
not
come
neere
him
to
bury
them
;
no
Clarke
(
to
get
a
Parsons
liuing
)
would
venture
to
Church
with
them
;
there
was
none
to
dig
a
graue
for
as
much
ground
as
the
whole
town
stood
vpon
;
and
for
Coffins
!
had
he
bin
owner
of
coffers
filld
with
gold
,
hee
could
not
with
them
haue
hired
a
fellowe
to
make
one
.
Then
came
into
his
mind
the
happinesse
of
Londoners
at
home
:
for
all
their
miseries
,
for
all
the
tedious
marchings
of
threescore
or
fourscore
in
a
day
to
one
Churchyard
,
yet
there
was
a
Comfort
,
a
blessing
,
a
reioycing
,
to
see
those
bodies
receiue
decent
Christian
Buriall
.
Had
his
children
bin
snatchd
from
him
in
London
,
I
could
,
said
he
(
his
heart-strings
being
ready
to
crack
with
sighing
)
haue
had
friends
and
kinred
,
to
accompany
them
to
their
graues
:
no
Ceremonies
should
haue
beene
wanting
due
to
the
dead
:
But
now
!
and
then
he
brake
off
;
recollecting
his
spirits
,
and
resoluing
to
make
a
vertue
of
necessitie
,
He
determined
(
seeing
no
other
remedy
)
to
bury
his
children
himselfe
.
A
graue
herevpon
he
digged
in
the
handsomest
fashion
he
could
,
&
then
fetching
first
one
child
,
and
after
,
the
other
(
his
Wife
being
a
partner
in
this
tragicall
passage
)
he
read
Seruice
ouer
them
;
the
Mother
,
when
he
came
to
these
words
,
Earth
to
earth
,
Ashes
to
ashes
,
performing
that
dutie
.
This
is
too
sad
;
here
's
one
more
merry
.
A
Prentice
of
London
being
handsomly
attired
in
one
faire
sute
,
and
carrying
another
down
with
him
,
went
to
see
his
mother
in
the
country
45
miles
from
London
;
with
fetching
a
compasse
(
for
he
knew
what
danger
it
was
to
fall
into
the
hands
of
that
English-Spanish
Inquisition
,
(
the
Muster
of
Billmen
)
he
gat
into
the
backside
of
his
Mothers
house
;
to
her
,
notice
being
giuen
,
that
her
sonne
was
come
from
London
,
shee
was
ready
to
fall
into
a
swound
;
shee
could
not
hold
a
ioynt
;
her
cheekes
lookd
pale
,
&
her
eyes
with
feare
almost
setled
in
her
head
:
In
the
end
,
Affection
conquering
Passion
,
she
ventur'd
to
see
him
.
He
,
as
she
was
approching
,
falling
on
his
knees
for
her
blessing
,
the
first
word
she
vttered
was
this
,
God
blesse
thee
,
&
God
blesse
me
from
comming
neere
thy
company
.
And
so
charging
him
as
yet
not
to
come
into
the
house
,
but
to
keepe
himselfe
in
an
out
Wood-pile
,
whither
a
Bed
should
be
sent
him
,
with
which
the
yong
man
was
content
,
only
it
grieued
him
,
that
his
mother
(
all
the
time
that
shee
talked
with
him
)
stood
not
onely
a
great
distance
from
him
,
but
held
her
nose
betweene
her
fingers
.
My
yong
Master
had
brought
a
Comrade
with
him
,
who
was
to
leaue
him
the
next
morning
:
that
night
therfore
they
would
be
merry
:
good
drinke
was
sent
them
by
a
Mayd
,
who
set
it
a
farre
off
,
and
they
must
fetch
it
:
then
had
they
a
ioynt
of
Meat
laid
to
the
fire
,
which
was
likewise
sent
them
,
but
with
this
cōdition
,
They
were
to
eat
it
vp
euery
bit
;
for
not
so
much
as
the
bones
they
left
,
should
bee
giuen
to
any
dogge
in
the
house
or
towne
.
Night
being
come
,
&
our
trauailing
Caualiers
hauing
a
desire
to
drinke
Tobacco
,
which
they
brought
with
them
:
a
clowne
of
the
house
(
when
the
mother
was
in
bed
)
pluckt
vp
a
good
heart
,
rubbd
his
cheekes
and
forehead
,
gaue
halfe
a
score
hemmes
,
to
fetch
vp
his
spirit
,
which
ran
to
his
heeles
,
and
lighting
a
candle
,
swore
,
Come
life
,
come
death
,
he
would
to
his
yong
Master
,
he
had
but
a
breath
to
lose
,
knew
he
was
grasse
and
hay
;
but
(
how
mortall
soeuer
)
he
would
to
Master
Iohn
,
and
drinke
a
whiffe
with
him
.
The
valiant
Desper-view
did
so
:
but
the
Watch
walking
the
Round
(
when
the
Pipes
were
discharging
)
the
candle
plaid
the
Tel-tale
,
&
told
them
;
two
Londoners
were
there
.
Vpon
this
,
the
Towne
was
instantly
in
a
Hoobbub
,
the
house
beset
with
Browne-Bills
,
and
Authority
in
a
Base-Organ-pipe-voice
commanded
the
two
dangerous
Londoners
to
bee
tredging
,
there
was
no
staying
for
them
there
.
The
mother
arose
,
cursd
Tobacco
that
ere
it
came
to
light
,
stood
stoutly
for
her
son
awhile
;
yet
the
town-bullets
of
threats
&
perswasions
thumping
about
her
eares
,
in
th'
end
she
yeelded
,
they
shold
raise
the
siege
,
and
depart
with
Bag
and
baggage
the
next
morning
.
In
shew
they
did
so
,
and
marchd
both
away
with
small
dishonor
;
but
the
sonne
secretly
returnd
agen
at
night
,
was
lodged
in
some
remote
roome
(
good
for
nothing
but
a
Londoner
)
&
there
kept
till
a
new
Suit
was
made
him
;
which
done
,
hee
was
washed
naked
twice
or
thrice
,
his
other
clothes
ayrd
in
a
ouen
,
yet
being
smelt
out
,
his
mothers
house
was
shut
vp
for
a
month
after
.
In
another
place
,
a
poore
man
dying
in
the
fields
(
as
hundreds
round
about
the
Country
haue
done
the
like
)
none
would
come
neere
the
body
,
none
giue
it
Christian
(
nay
any
)
buriall
:
so
that
it
lay
so
long
aboue
ground
,
that
Hounds
or
Hoggs
had
eaten
out
his
bowels
,
and
so
was
left
that
beasts
might
end
as
they
had
begun
,
to
make
their
bellies
serue
for
his
graue
.
And
this
hapned
within
few
miles
of
Kiddermaster
.
We
could
tel
you
500
dismal
euents
hapning
in
the
country
,
&
put
by
the
people
vpon
vs
,
&
all
others
that
trauell
:
so
wretchedly
haue
they
handled
men
in
some
places
,
that
when
a
shilling
has
bin
offred
for
a
can
of
faire
water
,
it
could
not
be
had
for
money
,
because
they
durst
not
come
neere
the
parties
;
and
in
one
poore
village
,
a
Horse-smith
,
who
neuer
in
his
life
was
worth
halfe
a
Barre
of
Iron
,
swore
he
would
not
shooe
a
Londoners
Horse
for
ten
pound
.
We
could
giue
you
a
full
Picture
of
many
others
,
drawn
with
infinite
absurdities
about
them
of
their
owne
naturall
committing
.
But
in
doing
so
,
we
shall
but
disgrace
our
owne
Nation
,
and
leaue
a
discouery
to
the
world
how
weakely
Mann'd
their
Soules
are
with
Faith
,
and
a
confident
resolution
,
in
the
Omnipotent
mercy
of
God.
It
is
fitt
to
Fly
,
and
withstand
this
Pestiferous
Enemy
by
all
faire
and
lawful
meanes
,
but
These
Countrey
people
run
backward
(
with
too
much
feare
,
but
no
wit
)
so
that
at
euery
footes
remouing
,
they
are
in
danger
to
breake
their
owne
neckes
.
O
London
!
how
we
hunger
&
thirst
to
be
within
thy
walles
:
Would
to
Heauen
the
Citie
and
Countrey
were
diuorc'd
,
and
we
parted
from
them
,
Away
we
determine
to
come
,
yet
with
many
Arguments
are
frighted
from
setting
forward
:
Wee
lay
seuerall
Plots
,
but
build
vpon
none
:
Sound
euery
little
Creeke
,
and
Riuer
,
and
finde
the
water
in
some
places
too
shallow
,
and
in
some
too
deepe
,
therefore
too
perrillous
.
Scinditur
incertum
studia
in
contraria
Vulgus
.
We
Londoners
a
thousand
Questions
make
,
Which
way
to
goe
,
yet
know
not
which
to
take
.
If
we
put
not
in
at
London
,
God
prosper
vs
in
our
next
voyage
,
which
is
,
that
we
may
all
meet
in
Heauen
.
FINIS
.
Notes, typically marginal, from the original text
Notes for div A14249-e290
Who
are
Run-awaies
.
A
Run-away
from
his
Maister
.
A
Run-away
from
his
Captaine
.
A
Run-away
from
a
Sergeant
.
Roaring
Run-awayes
.
Good
night
Land-Lord
Run-awayes
.
He
has
seene
Finsbury
fields
Mustering
.
Flight
not
for
feare
,
but
safety
,
nor
for
safty
,
but
on
pollicy
.
A
rough
March
turnd
to
a
weeping
Aprill
.
All
these
Castles
were
built
in
the
Ayre
.
Earth
leuels
out
the
groūd
,
but
Heauen
deuides
the
Acres
.
Folly
to
runne
from
that
we
can
not
shun
.
Church-Musick
,
best
and
worst
.
*
They
were
gon
abroad
ere
we
came
.
If
there
were
,
you
would
giue
ouer
your
Trade
of
Pamphletts
.
To
flatter
sick
Mens
Bodies
may
Foole
away
their
Soules
.
Young
Cockes
loue
no
coopes
.
The
more
that
run
away
whē
a
Field
is
lost
,
the
fewer
fall
.
Whē
the
Leaders
Flye
,
shall
the
Soldiers
stand
▪
Phisick
and
Surgerie
at
a
Non
plus
in
this
Sicknesse
.
If
there
fall
good
showers
of
Money
,
els
not
.
All
our
Money
in
the
Cuntry
is
turnd
into
Quick
siluer
.
If
the
Poore
pine
for
all
,
let
the
Rich
pay
for
all
.
Great-Men
,
Little-House-keepers
.
Iobs
Estate
.
His
Losses
.
His
Patience
.
No
Cast-awaies
,
though
Run-awaies
.
Well
fare
an
old
freind
in
a
Corner
.
We
haue
set
vp
our
staffe
already
.
O
for
a
good
Winde
!
T
is
but
changing
our
Copy
These
Bearers
are
worse
then
Beare-wards
.
A
Londoners
money
in
the
Countrey
is
brasse
.
16
.
s
for
foure
London
Bearers
.
Badd
Egges
hatch
no
good
Chickens
.
A
Curse
rebounded
.
No
Iesting
with
God.
None
but
Doues
i'
th
Countrey
.
We
Londoners
dare
sweare
so
much
.
And
peepe
out
at
loope-holes
.
Haue
they
not
reason
?
Exceeding
deare
.
To
bee
gone
.
For
feare
it
chokes
'
em
.
A
murren
on
their
manners
when
they
haue
any
.
Nor
cleanes
ones
neither
.
Can
any
man
wish
more
?
T
is
pity
they
should
.
Neuer
,
vnlesse
it
be
at
foot-ball
.
Nay
halfe-hangd
.
Who
can
proclaime
them
?
We
should
be
sorry
else
.
Where
the
Treasure
is
the
heart
dwels
.
Death
is
a
nimble
Footeman
and
hath
ouertaken
vs.
A
Run-awaies
Armour
to
be
worne
against
Death
.
An
old
Souldiers
sute
to
Caesar
.
Men
should
be
like
Bells
.
Death's
A.
B.
C.
The
last
Scaene
crownes
the
Play.
A
Hot-spurre
Londoner
.
Here
the
Morris
begins
Here
's
plaine
dealing
.
The
Name
of
Londoner
hatefull
,
Ninnio
in
Spanish
is
a
boy
.
A
Londoner
a
Bugbeare
.
To
Bayte
one
of
these
Beares
in
Smithfield
would
make
good
sport
.
Suttle
Gudgeons
.
A
Hay-gee
Gentleman
.
No
disgrace
in
the
Country
to
haue
a
Horse-Fly
play
with
your
nose
.
This
Fashion
will
not
hold
long
we
trow
.
One
King
a
a
Schoole-Maister
,
an
other
a
Cow-Heard
.
He
must
needs
goe
whom
the
Diuell
driues
.
We
hope
for
better
winter-Fruite
.
We
will
st●ale
in
by
Owle-light
but
we
'le
see
her
.
And
they
reward
thee
well
for
it
.
The
Bills
decreasing
,
are
Ioyes
increasing
.
A
Caueat
for
Run-awayes
.
A
rich
Father
Sexton
to
his
own
Children
.
A
Mother
and
her
Sonne
.
The
Conditions
had
bene
good
in
a
deare
yeare
.
A
valiant
Coward
.
More
feard
then
hurt
.
A
Mans
bowels
eaten
out
by
Doggs
or
Hoggs
.