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         Taylor, John, 1580-1653.
      
       
         
           1621
        
      
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             Superbiæ flagellum, or, The vvhip of pride. By Iohn Taylor
             Taylor, John, 1580-1653.
             Cockson, Thomas, engraver.
          
           [66] p. : ill. (metal cut)
           
             Printed by G. Eld,
             London :
             1621.
          
           
             In verse.
             The first leaf bears verses, "The meaning of the frontispiece", on verso.
             The frontispiece, with title "The whip of pride", is signed: TC, i.e. Thomas Cockson.
             Signatures: pi² A-D (-D8).
             With a dedication to Sir Thomas Richardson. Variant: dedication is to William Seymour, Earl of Hertford.
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           Pride and vanity -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800.
        
      
    
     
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             Superbiae
             Flagellum
          
           ,
           OR
           ,
           THE
           WHIP
           OF
           PRIDE
           .
        
         
           By
           IOHN
           TAYLOR
           .
        
         
         
           LONDON
           ,
           Printed
           by
           G.
           ELD
           :
           1621.
           
        
      
       
         
         
         
           To
           the
           Right
           Worshipfull
           ,
           Worthy
           ,
           and
           Learned
           Gentleman
           ,
           Sr.
           THOMAS
           RICHARDSON
           Knight
           ,
           Serjcant
           at
           Law
           ,
           and
           Speaker
           in
           the
           High
           Court
           of
           Parliament
           ,
           &c.
           
        
         
           A
           double
           Anagramme
           .
        
         
           THOMAS
           RICHARDESONN
           .
           AS
           MAN
           HONORDE
           CHRIST
           ,
           SO
           CHRIST
           HONERD
           A
           MAN.
           
        
         
           YOur
           name
           includes
           ,
           that
           
             As
             man
             honorde
             Christ
          
           ,
           So
           God
           againe
           through
           Christ
           honord
           a
           man
           :
           For
           if
           man
           truly
           honor
           the
           most
           High'st
           Then
           Christ
           to
           honor
           man
           both
           will
           and
           can
           .
           Right
           worthy
           Sir
           ,
           this
           in
           your
           name
           is
           true
           ,
           You
           honor
           Christ
           ,
           and
           Christ
           hath
           honord
           you
           .
        
         
           RIGHT
           WORSHIPFVLL
           ,
        
         
           BVt
           that
           I
           am
           assured
           that
           your
           Noble
           disposition
           ,
           in
           all
           parts
           is
           sutable
           to
           the
           inside
           of
           this
           Booke
           ,
           I
           should
           neuer
           haue
           dared
           to
           Dedicate
           it
           to
           your
           Patronage
           :
           for
           as
           it
           is
           a
           Diuine
           Poem
           ,
           so
           hath
           your
           Worship
           a
           religious
           heart
           ,
           as
           it
           hath
           an
           honest
           intention
           ,
           so
           haue
           you
           a
           brest
           euer
           full
           of
           such
           thoughts
           ,
           which
           bring
           forth
           worthy
           actions
           :
           as
           it
           a
           Whip
           or
           Scourge
           against
           all
           sorts
           of
           Pride
           ,
           so
           haue
           you
           euer
           beene
           an
           unfaigned
           louer
           of
           Courteous
           humanity
           and
           humility
           ,
           I
           humbly
           beseech
           your
           Worship
           ,
           (
           although
           the
           methode
           and
           stile
           be
           plaine
           ,
           )
           to
           be
           pleased
           to
           giue
           it
           fauourable
           entertainment
           ,
           for
           the
           honesty
           that
           is
           in
           it
           ,
           and
           the
           dutifull
           affection
           of
           the
           Author
           ,
        
         
           Who
           is
           most
           obsequiously
           obliged
           to
           your
           Worship
           ,
        
         
           
             IOHN
             TAYLOR
             .
          
        
      
       
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
           To
           no
           matter
           who
           ,
           no
           great
           
             matter
             where
             ,
             yet
             to
             be
             read
          
           there
           is
           matter
           why
           ,
           although
           
             not
             much
             matter
             when
          
           .
        
         
           IT
           is
           no
           matter
           into
           whose
           hands
           or
           censure
           this
           my
           
             Superbiae
             Flagellum
          
           ,
           or
           Whipping
           ,
           or
           Stripping
           of
           Pride
           fall
           into
           ,
           if
           it
           come
           into
           the
           view
           of
           true
           Nobility
           or
           Gentry
           ,
           I
           know
           it
           will
           be
           charitably
           accepted
           .
           If
           into
           the
           hands
           of
           degenerate
           yongsters
           ,
           that
           esteeme
           Pride
           more
           then
           all
           the
           Liberall
           Sciences
           ,
           who
           account
           the
           foure
           Cardinall
           vertues
           ,
           inferiour
           to
           their
           owne
           Carnall
           vices
           ,
           such
           a
           one
           will
           put
           me
           off
           with
           a
           scornefull
           tush
           ,
           a
           pish
           ,
           or
           a
           mew
           ,
           and
           commit
           my
           Booke
           to
           the
           protection
           of
           Aiax
           .
           If
           a
           wiseman
           reade
           it
           ,
           I
           know
           it
           will
           be
           discreetly
           censur'd
           ;
           if
           a
           Foole
           ,
           his
           Bolt
           is
           soone
           shot
           ,
           and
           I
           am
           arm'd
           against
           it
           ;
           if
           a
           Learned
           man
           peruse
           it
           ,
           
           hee
           will
           beare
           with
           my
           bad
           Schollership
           ;
           if
           an
           vnlearned
           ,
           I
           care
           not
           for
           his
           opinion
           ;
           if
           a
           man
           of
           knowledge
           view
           it
           ,
           he
           will
           pardon
           my
           ignorance
           ;
           if
           an
           ignorant
           Asse
           see
           it
           ,
           hee
           will
           bray
           out
           his
           owne
           ;
           if
           an
           honest
           Richman
           spy
           it
           ,
           hee
           will
           be
           the
           poorer
           in
           spirit
           though
           not
           in
           purse
           ;
           but
           if
           a
           proud
           Diues
           handle
           it
           ,
           hee
           will
           esteeme
           it
           worse
           then
           his
           dogges
           ;
           if
           a
           proud
           Courtier
           reade
           it
           ,
           he
           will
           teare
           it
           to
           tatters
           ;
           whilst
           a
           Generous
           Affable
           Gentleman
           ,
           will
           louingly
           entertaine
           it
           .
           If
           beauty
           chance
           to
           behold
           it
           ,
           it
           will
           bid
           it
           welcome
           ,
           if
           Pride
           stand
           not
           in
           the
           way
           ;
           if
           a
           strong
           man
           that
           is
           not
           proud
           of
           it
           ,
           grow
           aquainted
           with
           the
           contents
           of
           my
           meaning
           ,
           I
           thinke
           it
           will
           content
           him
           ;
           if
           Parents
           ,
           or
           children
           ,
           or
           all
           ,
           or
           any
           body
           ,
           that
           are
           not
           poysoned
           with
           pride
           ,
           doe
           but
           see
           or
           heare
           it
           distinctly
           read
           ,
           and
           vnderstand
           it
           with
           iudgement
           ,
           I
           am
           perswaded
           it
           will
           passe
           and
           repasse
           ,
           with
           friendly
           vsage
           ,
           
           but
           if
           any
           of
           the
           contrary
           faction
           come
           within
           the
           Aire
           of
           it
           ,
           they
           wil
           vse
           it
           in
           some
           sort
           ,
           as
           bad
           as
           the
           hangman
           may
           vse
           them
           .
           And
           so
           much
           for
           ,
           To
           no
           matter
           who
           .
        
         
           It
           is
           no
           great
           matter
           where
           this
           be
           read
           ,
           for
           as
           a
           good
           man
           (
           being
           banished
           )
           is
           neuer
           out
           of
           his
           countrey
           ,
           because
           all
           countryes
           are
           his
           ,
           so
           my
           Booke
           in
           Church
           ,
           Court
           ,
           City
           ,
           Countrey
           ,
           Castle
           or
           Cottage
           ,
           is
           one
           and
           the
           same
           ;
           it
           may
           perhaps
           alter
           the
           place
           where
           it
           comes
           from
           worse
           to
           better
           ,
           but
           the
           place
           can
           neuer
           alter
           the
           honest
           entents
           of
           it
           from
           better
           to
           worse
           .
           Therefore
           no
           great
           matter
           where
           .
        
         
           To
           be
           read
           there
           is
           matter
           ,
           why
           ,
           because
           it
           strikes
           at
           the
           roote
           of
           a
           most
           deadly
           sinne
           ,
           which
           almost
           as
           bad
           as
           an
           vniuersall
           deluge
           ,
           hath
           ouerflowed
           the
           most
           part
           of
           the
           world
           ;
           and
           though
           the
           Preachers
           on
           Earth
           ,
           (
           Gods
           Trumpets
           ,
           and
           ambassadors
           from
           Heauen
           )
           doe
           diligently
           and
           dayly
           
           strike
           at
           this
           abhominatiō
           ,
           with
           the
           eternal
           sword
           of
           the
           euerlasting
           Word
           ,
           yet
           what
           they
           cut
           downe
           in
           the
           day
           ,
           like
           Mushromes
           ,
           it
           growes
           vp
           againe
           thicke
           and
           threesold
           in
           the
           night
           ,
           for
           whilst
           the
           husband-man
           sleepes
           ,
           the
           enuious
           man
           sowes
           tares
           .
        
         
           Wherefore
           ,
           I
           hauing
           a
           talent
           of
           knowledge
           lent
           me
           ,
           by
           which
           I
           know
           that
           I
           must
           render
           an
           account
           one
           day
           ,
           how
           I
           haue
           imployed
           it
           ,
           and
           hauing
           Written
           neere
           forty
           seuerall
           pamphlets
           in
           former
           times
           ,
           I
           purpose
           henceforward
           (
           God
           willing
           )
           to
           redeeme
           the
           time
           I
           haue
           so
           mispent
           ,
           imploying
           my
           Pen
           in
           such
           exercises
           (
           which
           though
           they
           be
           no
           free
           from
           a
           rellish
           of
           mirth
           ,
           yet
           they
           shall
           be
           cleare
           from
           profanation
           ,
           scurrility
           ,
           or
           obsceannesse
           I
           do
           know
           Pride
           is
           at
           such
           a
           height
           ,
           that
           my
           Mole-hill
           Muse
           can
           neuer
           by
           mineing
           at
           her
           foote
           ,
           shake
           her
           head
           ,
           for
           where
           Diuinity
           preuailes
           not
           ,
           Poetry
           in
           medling
           doth
           but
           shew
           the
           Suns
           
           brightnesse
           with
           a
           Candle
           .
           Yet
           forasmuch
           as
           I
           know
           that
           Pride
           cast
           Angels
           out
           of
           Heauen
           ,
           made
           diuels
           in
           hell
           ,
           threw
           man
           out
           of
           Paradise
           ,
           was
           a
           maine
           causer
           of
           the
           drowning
           of
           the
           first
           World
           ,
           is
           a
           deuowrer
           of
           this
           world
           ,
           and
           shall
           euer
           be
           accursed
           in
           the
           world
           to
           come
           ,
           by
           this
           knowledge
           ,
           I
           haue
           with
           a
           mix'd
           inuectiue
           mildnesse
           ,
           shewed
           in
           this
           Booke
           the
           vanities
           of
           all
           sorts
           of
           Pride
           ,
           not
           that
           I
           hope
           for
           amendment
           ,
           but
           to
           shew
           my
           honest
           intendment
           .
        
         
           I
           haue
           seene
           sixe
           or
           seuen
           fashion
           hunting
           Gallants
           together
           sit
           scorning
           ,
           and
           deriding
           a
           better
           man
           then
           any
           of
           themselues
           ,
           onely
           because
           either
           his
           Hat
           was
           of
           the
           old
           Block
           ,
           or
           that
           his
           Ruffe
           was
           not
           so
           richly
           lac'd
           ,
           his
           Cloake
           hath
           beene
           too
           plaine
           ,
           his
           Beard
           of
           the
           old
           translation
           ,
           his
           Bootes
           and
           Spurres
           of
           the
           precedent
           second
           edition
           ,
           and
           for
           such
           slight
           occasions
           a
           man
           hath
           beene
           slighted
           ,
           ieerd
           and
           wonderd
           at
           ,
           as
           if
           
           he
           had
           beene
           but
           a
           Zany
           to
           the
           fashion
           ,
           or
           a
           man
           made
           for
           the
           purpose
           for
           them
           to
           whet
           their
           scorne
           vpon
           ,
           and
           therefore
           to
           read
           this
           ,
           there
           is
           a
           matter
           why
           .
        
         
           It
           is
           not
           much
           matter
           when
           ,
           for
           be
           it
           read
           on
           Fryday
           the
           Turks
           Holyday
           ,
           on
           Saturday
           the
           Iewes
           Sabbath
           ,
           on
           Sunday
           the
           Lords
           day
           ,
           or
           on
           any
           day
           or
           all
           dayes
           ,
           nights
           or
           howers
           ,
           there
           is
           Diuinity
           with
           Alacrity
           ,
           Poetry
           with
           honest
           mirth
           ,
           and
           euery
           thing
           so
           interwouen
           ,
           one
           with
           another
           ,
           that
           if
           it
           please
           not
           the
           generality
           ,
           yet
           I
           hope
           in
           particularity
           it
           will
           be
           tolerably
           censurd
           by
           all
           that
           hate
           Pride
           ,
           and
           loue
           humility
           .
           And
           therefore
           ,
           not
           much
           matter
           when
           .
        
         
           
             IOHN
             TAYLOR
             .
          
        
      
       
         
         
           A
           FEW
           LINES
           ,
           TO
           SMALL
           PVRPOSE
           ,
           against
           the
           Scandalous
           Aspersions
           ,
           that
           are
           either
           maliciously
           ,
           or
           ignorantly
           cast
           vpon
           the
           Poets
           and
           Poems
           of
           these
           Times
           .
        
         
           
             THere
             doth
             a
             strange
             ,
             and
             true
             opinion
             runne
             ,
          
           
             That
             Poots
             write
             much
             worse
             then
             they
             haue
             don
             :
          
           
             And
             how
             so
             poore
             their
             daily
             writings
             are
             ,
          
           
             As
             though
             their
             best
             inuentions
             were
             threed
             bare
             .
          
           
             And
             how
             no
             new
             things
             from
             them
             now
             doth
             spring
             ,
          
           
             But
             all
             hath
             refrence
             from
             some
             other
             thing
             .
          
           
             And
             that
             their
             daily
             doings
             doe
             reueale
             ,
          
           
             How
             they
             from
             one
             another
             silch
             and
             steale
             ,
          
           
             As
             if
             amongst
             them't
             were
             a
             statute
             made
             ,
          
           
             That
             they
             may
             freely
             use
             the
             theeuing
             trade
             .
          
           
             And
             some
             there
             are
             that
             will
             not
             sticke
             to
             say
             ,
          
           
             That
             many
             Poets
             liuing
             at
             this
             day
             ,
          
           
             Who
             haue
             the
             Hebrew
             ,
             Latine
             ,
             Greeke
             ,
             at
             will
             ,
          
           
             And
             in
             th'
             Italian
             and
             thè
             French
             haue
             skill
             ,
          
           
             These
             are
             the
             greatest
             theeues
             they
             say
             ,
             of
             all
          
           
             That
             vse
             the
             Trade
             (
             or
             Art
             )
             Poeticall
             .
          
           
             For
             ancient
             Bards
             ,
             and
             Poets
             in
             strange
             toungs
             ,
          
           
             Compiled
             haue
             their
             verses
             and
             their
             songs
             :
          
           
           
             And
             those
             to
             whom
             those
             tongues
             are
             rightly
             knowne
             ,
          
           
             Translating
             them
             ,
             make
             others
             verse
             their
             owne
             ,
          
           
             As
             one
             that
             steales
             a
             Cloake
             ,
             and
             presently
          
           
             Makes
             it
             his
             owne
             ,
             by
             alt'ring
             of
             the
             dye
             .
          
           
             So
             whole
             boookes
             ,
             and
             whole
             sentences
             haue
             bin
          
           
             Stolne
             ,
             and
             the
             stealers
             ,
             great
             applause
             did
             win
             ,
          
           
             And
             by
             their
             filching
             thought
             great
             men
             of
             fame
             ,
          
           
             By
             those
             that
             knew
             not
             the
             right
             Authors
             name
             .
          
           
             For
             mine
             owne
             part
             ,
             my
             Conscience
             witnesse
             is
             ,
          
           
             I
             ne're
             was
             guilty
             of
             such
             theft
             as
             this
             ,
          
           
             Unto
             such
             robbery
             I
             could
             neuer
             reach
             ,
          
           
             Because
             I
             vnderstand
             no
             forreigne
             speach
             .
          
           
             To
             prooue
             that
             I
             am
             from
             such
             filching
             free
             ,
          
           
             Latin
             and
             French
             are
             heathen-Greeke
             to
             me
             ,
          
           
             The
             Grecian
             ,
             and
             the
             Hebrew
             Charactars
             ,
          
           
             I
             know
             as
             well
             ,
             as
             I
             can
             reach
             the
             Starres
             .
          
           
             The
             sweete
             Italian
             ,
             and
             the
             Chip
             Chop
             Dutch
             ,
          
           
             I
             know
             the
             man
             i'
             th
             Moone
             can
             speake
             as
             much
             .
          
           
             Should
             I
             from
             English
             Authors
             ,
             but
             purloyne
             ,
          
           
             It
             would
             be
             soone
             found
             counterfeited
             coyne
             .
          
           
             Then
             since
             I
             cannot
             steale
             ,
             but
             some
             will
             spy
             ,
          
           
             I
             le
             truely
             use
             mine
             owne
             ,
             let
             others
             lye
             .
          
           
             Yet
             to
             excuse
             the
             writers
             ,
             that
             now
             write
             ,
          
           
             Because
             they
             bring
             no
             better
             things
             to
             light
             :
          
           
           
             T
             is
             because
             bounty
             from
             the
             world
             is
             fled
             ,
          
           
             True
             liberality
             is
             almost
             dead
             .
          
           
             Reward
             is
             lodg'd
             in
             darke
             obliuion
             deepe
             ,
          
           
             Bewitch't
             (
             I
             thinke
             )
             into
             an
             endlesse
             sleepe
             ,
          
           
             That
             though
             a
             man
             in
             study
             take
             great
             paines
             ,
          
           
             And
             empt
             his
             veines
             ,
             and
             puluerize
             his
             braines
             ,
          
           
             To
             write
             a
             Poem
             well
             ,
             which
             being
             writ
          
           
             Wthall
             his
             Iudgement
             ,
             Reason
             ,
             Art
             ,
             and
             Wit
             ,
          
           
             And
             at
             his
             owne
             charge
             ,
             print
             and
             pay
             for
             all
             ,
          
           
             And
             giue
             away
             most
             free
             ,
             and
             liberall
          
           
             Two
             ,
             three
             ,
             or
             foure
             ,
             or
             fiue
             hundred
             bookes
             .
          
           
             For
             his
             reward
             he
             shall
             haue
             nods
             and
             lookes
             ;
          
           
             That
             all
             the
             profit
             a
             mans
             paines
             hath
             gat
             ,
          
           
             Will
             not
             suffice
             one
             meale
             to
             feed
             a
             Cat.
          
           
             Yet
             Noble
             Wcstminster
             ,
             thou
             still
             art
             free
             ,
          
           
             And
             for
             thy
             bounty
             I
             am
             bound
             to
             thee
             :
          
           
             For
             hadst
             not
             thou
             ,
             and
             thy
             Inhabitants
             ,
          
           
             From
             Time
             to
             Time
             relieu'd
             and
             helpd
             my
             wants
             ,
          
           
             I
             had
             long
             since
             bid
             Poetry
             adieu
          
           
             And
             therefore
             still
             my
             thankes
             shall
             be
             to
             you
             .
          
           
             Next
             to
             the
             Court
             ,
             in
             generall
             I
             am
             bound
          
           
             To
             you
             ,
             for
             many
             friendships
             I
             haue
             found
             .
          
           
             There
             (
             when
             my
             purse
             hath
             often
             wanted
             baite
             )
          
           
             To
             fill
             or
             feed
             it
             ,
             I
             baue
             had
             receite
             .
          
           
           
             So
             much
             for
             that
             ,
             I
             'le
             now
             no
             more
             rehearse
             ,
          
           
             They
             shew
             their
             loues
             in
             prose
             ,
             my
             thankes
             in
             verse
             ,
          
           
             When
             death
             ,
             Mecaenas
             did
             of
             life
             depriue
             ,
          
           
             Few
             of
             his
             Noble
             Tribe
             were
             left
             aliue
             ,
          
           
             This
             makes
             Inuention
             to
             be
             meane
             and
             hard
             ,
          
           
             When
             Pride
             and
             Auarice
             doth
             killreward
             .
          
           
             And
             yet
             me
             thinkes
             ,
             it
             plainely
             doth
             appeare
             ,
          
           
             Mens
             writings
             are
             as
             good
             as
             e're
             they
             were
             .
          
           
             Good
             lines
             are
             like
             a
             Banquet
             ill
             imployd
             ,
          
           
             Where
             too
             much
             feeding
             hath
             the
             stomack
             cloyde
             .
          
           
             Good
             verses
             fall
             sometimes
             (
             by
             course
             of
             fate
             )
          
           
             Into
             their
             hands
             that
             are
             preiudicate
             .
          
           
             And
             though
             ,
             the
             Writer
             ne're
             so
             well
             hath
             pend
             ,
          
           
             Yet
             they
             'le
             find
             fault
             with
             what
             they
             cannot
             mend
             .
          
           
             Thus
             many
             a
             learned
             well
             composed
             line
             ,
          
           
             Hath
             bin
             as
             Pearle
             that
             's
             cast
             before
             a
             swine
             .
          
           
             Or
             more
             familiarly
             to
             make
             compare
             ,
          
           
             Like
             Aquauitae
             giuen
             vnto
             a
             Mare
             .
          
           
             These
             fellowes
             ,
             (
             glutted
             with
             variety
             )
          
           
             Hold
             Good
             lines
             in
             a
             loath'd
             saciety
             ,
          
           
             Whiest
             paltry
             Riming
             ,
             Libells
             ,
             Iigges
             ,
             and
             Iests
             ,
          
           
             Are
             to
             their
             appetites
             continuall
             feafts
             .
          
           
             With
             which
             their
             fancies
             they
             doe
             feed
             and
             fill
             ,
          
           
             And
             take
             the
             Ill
             for
             good
             ,
             the
             Good
             for
             ill
             .
          
           
           
             Whilst
             like
             to
             Monkeyes
             ,
             (
             scorning
             wholesome
             meate
             )
          
           
             They
             grredily
             doe
             poysnous
             spiders
             eate
             .
          
           
             So
             let
             them
             feed
             vntill
             their
             humours
             burst
             ,
          
           
             And
             thus
             much
             bold
             to
             tell
             them
             heere
             I
             durst
             .
          
           
             That
             Poetry
             is
             now
             as
             good
             as
             euer
             ,
          
           
             If
             bounty
             ,
             to
             relieue
             her
             would
             endeuer
             .
          
           
             Mens
             mindes
             are
             worse
             then
             they
             haue
             bin
             of
             yore
             ,
          
           
             Inuention's
             good
             now
             ,
             as
             it
             was
             before
             .
          
           
             Let
             liberality
             awake
             ,
             and
             then
          
           
             Each
             Poet
             in
             his
             hand
             will
             take
             a
             pen
             ,
          
           
             And
             with
             rare
             lines
             inrich
             a
             world
             of
             paper
             ,
          
           
             Shall
             make
             Apollo
             ,
             and
             the
             Muses
             caper
             .
          
        
         
           FINIS
           .
        
      
    
     
       
         
         
         
           
             Superbiae
             Flagellum
          
           ,
           or
           the
           Whip
           of
           Pride
           .
        
         
           
             WHen
             all
             things
             were
             as
             wrap'd
             in
             sable
             night
             ,
          
           
             And
             Ebon
             darknes
             muffled
             vp
             the
             light
             :
             
          
           
             When
             neither
             Sun
             ,
             or
             Moone
             ,
             nor
             Starres
             had
             shinde
             ,
          
           
             And
             when
             no
             fire
             ,
             no
             Water
             ,
             Earth
             or
             Winde
             ,
          
           
             No
             haruest
             ,
             Autumne
             ,
             Winter
             ,
             when
             no
             Spring
             ,
          
           
             No
             Bird
             ,
             Beast
             ,
             Fish
             ,
             nor
             any
             creeping
             thing
             ,
          
           
             When
             there
             was
             neither
             Time
             nor
             place
             ,
             nor
             space
             ,
          
           
             And
             silence
             did
             the
             Chaos
             round
             embrace
             :
          
           
             Then
             did
             the
             Archworkmaster
             of
             this
             All
             ,
          
           
             Create
             this
             Massy
             Vniuersall
             Ball.
          
           
             And
             with
             his
             mighty
             word
             brought
             all
             to
             passe
             ,
          
           
             Saying
             but
             
               Let
               there
               Be
            
             ,
             and
             done
             it
             was
             .
          
           
             Let
             there
             be
             Day
             ,
             Night
             ,
             Water
             ,
             Earth
             ,
             Hearbs
             ,
             Trees
          
           
             Let
             there
             be
             Sun
             ,
             Moone
             ,
             Stars
             ,
             fish
             ,
             fowle
             that
             flees
             ,
          
           
           
             Beasts
             of
             the
             Field
             ,
             he
             said
             but
             ,
             
               Let
               there
               be
            
             ,
          
           
             And
             all
             things
             were
             created
             as
             we
             see
             .
          
           
             Thus
             euery
             sensible
             and
             senselesse
             thing
             ,
          
           
             The
             High-Creators
             Word
             to
             passe
             did
             bring
             :
          
           
             And
             as
             in
             viewing
             all
             his
             workes
             he
             stood
             ,
          
           
             He
             saw
             that
             all
             things
             were
             exceeding
             good
             .
          
           
             Thus
             hauing
             furnisht
             Seas
             ,
             and
             Earth
             ,
             and
             Skies
             ;
          
           
             Abundantly
             with
             all
             varieties
             ,
          
           
             Like
             a
             Magnificent
             and
             sumptuous
             Fcast
             ,
          
           
             For
             th'
             entertainment
             of
             some
             welcome
             Guest
             ,
          
           
             When
             Beasts
             and
             Birds
             ,
             and
             euery
             liuing
             Creature
             ,
          
           
             And
             the
             Earths
             fruits
             did
             multiply
             by
             Nature
             ;
          
           
             Then
             did
             th'
             Eternall
             Trinity
             betake
          
           
             It selfe
             to
             Councell
             ,
             and
             said
             ,
             
               Let
               vs
               make
            
             ,
          
           
             Not
             
               Let
               there
               be
            
             ,
             as
             vnto
             all
             things
             else
             ,
          
           
             But
             LET
             VS
             MAKE
             MAN
             ,
             that
             the
             rest
             excels
             ;
          
           
             According
             TO
             OVER
             IMAGE
             LET
             VS
             MAKE
             
          
           
             MAN
             ,
             and
             then
             did
             th'
             Almighty
             Red
             Earth
             take
             ,
          
           
             With
             which
             he
             formed
             Adam
             ,
             euery
             limine
             ,
          
           
             And
             (
             hauing
             made
             him
             )
             breathed
             life
             in
             him
             .
          
           
             Loe
             ,
             thus
             the
             first
             Man
             neuer
             was
             a
             Child
             ,
          
           
             No
             way
             with
             sinne
             originall
             defil'd
             :
          
           
             But
             with
             high
             Supernat'rall
             Vnderstanding
             ,
          
           
             He
             ouer
             all
             the
             World
             had
             sole
             commanding
             .
          
           
           
             Yet
             though
             to
             him
             the
             Regency
             was
             giuen
             ,
          
           
             As
             Earths
             Lieutenant
             to
             the
             God
             of
             Heauen
             ,
          
           
             Though
             he
             commanded
             all
             Created
             things
             ,
          
           
             As
             Deputy
             vnder
             the
             King
             of
             Kings
             ;
          
           
             Though
             he
             so
             highly
             heere
             was
             dignifide
             ,
          
           
             To
             humble
             him
             ,
             not
             to
             be
             puff'd
             with
             Pride
             ,
          
           
             He
             could
             not
             brag
             or
             boast
             of
             high
             borne
             birth
             ,
          
           
             For
             he
             was
             formed
             out
             of
             slime
             and
             earth
             :
          
           
             No
             Beast
             ,
             fish
             ,
             worme
             ,
             fowle
             ,
             herbe
             ,
             weed
             ,
             stone
             ,
             or
             tree
             ,
          
           
             But
             are
             of
             a
             more
             ancient
             house
             then
             he
             ;
          
           
             For
             they
             were
             made
             before
             him
             ,
             which
             proues
             this
          
           
             That
             their
             Antiquity
             is
             more
             then
             his
             .
          
           
             Thus
             both
             himselfe
             ,
             and
             his
             beloued
             Spouse
             ,
          
           
             Are
             by
             Creation
             of
             the
             younger
             house
             ,
          
           
             And
             whilst
             they
             liu'd
             in
             perfect
             Holinesse
             ,
          
           
             Their
             richest
             Garments
             were
             bare
             Nakednesse
             ,
          
           
             True
             Innocency
             were
             their
             chiefest
             weeds
             ,
          
           
             (
             For
             Righteousnesse
             no
             Masque
             or
             Visor
             needs
             .
             )
          
           
             The
             royal'st
             robes
             that
             our
             first
             Parents
             had
             ,
          
           
             Was
             a
             free
             Conscience
             with
             Vprightnesse
             clad
             ;
          
           
             They
             needed
             ne're
             to
             shift
             ;
             the
             cloathes
             they
             wore
          
           
             Was
             Nakednesse
             ,
             and
             they
             desir'd
             no
             more
             ;
          
           
             Vntill
             at
             last
             ,
             that
             Hell-polluting
             sin
             ,
          
           
             With
             Disobedience
             soil'd
             their
             Soules
             within
             ,
          
           
           
             And
             hauing
             lost
             their
             holines
             Perfection
             ,
          
           
             They
             held
             their
             Nakednes
             an
             Imperfection
             .
          
           
             Then
             (
             being
             both
             asham'd
             )
             they
             both
             did
             frame
          
           
             Garments
             ,
             as
             weedes
             of
             their
             deserued
             shame
             .
          
           
             Thus
             ,
             when
             as
             sinne
             had
             brought
             Gods
             curse
             on
             man
          
           
             Then
             shame
             to
             make
             Apparell
             first
             began
             ,
          
           
             E're
             man
             had
             sin'd
             ,
             most
             plaine
             it
             doth
             appeare
             ,
          
           
             He
             neither
             did
             ,
             or
             needed
             Garments
             weare
             ,
          
           
             For
             his
             Apparell
             did
             at
             first
             beginne
             ,
          
           
             To
             be
             the
             Robes
             of
             pennance
             for
             his
             sinne
             .
          
           
             Thus
             all
             the
             brood
             of
             Adam
             ,
             and
             of
             Eue
             ,
          
           
             The
             true
             vse
             of
             Apparell
             may
             perceiue
             ,
          
           
             That
             they
             are
             Liueries
             ,
             Badges
             ,
             vnto
             all
          
           
             Of
             our
             sinnes
             ,
             and
             our
             Parents
             wofull
             fall
             .
          
           
             Then
             morethen
             mad
             ,
             these
             mad-brain'd
             people
             be
          
           
             (
             Or
             else
             they
             see
             ,
             and
             will
             not
             seeme
             to
             see
             )
          
           
             That
             these
             same
             Robes
             (
             with
             Pride
             )
             that
             makes
             them
             swell
          
           
             Are
             tokens
             that
             our
             best
             desert
             is
             hell
             .
          
           
             Much
             like
             vnto
             a
             Traytor
             to
             his
             King
             
          
           
             That
             would
             his
             Countrey
             to
             destruction
             bring
             ,
          
           
             Whose
             Treasons
             being
             prou'd
             apparantly
             ,
          
           
             He
             by
             the
             Law
             is
             iustly
             iudg'd
             to
             dye
             ,
          
           
             And
             when
             he
             lookes
             for
             his
             deserued
             death
             ,
          
           
             A
             Pardon
             comes
             and
             giues
             him
             longer
             breath
             ,
          
           
           
             I
             thinke
             this
             man
             most
             madly
             would
             appeare
          
           
             That
             would
             a
             halter
             in
             a
             glory
             weare
             ,
          
           
             Because
             he
             with
             a
             halter
             merited
          
           
             Of
             life
             ,
             to
             be
             quite
             disinherited
          
           
             But
             if
             he
             should
             vaingloriously
             persist
          
           
             To
             make
             a
             Rope
             of
             silke
             or
             golden
             twise
             ,
          
           
             And
             weare
             't
             as
             a
             more
             honourable
             showe
          
           
             Of
             his
             Rebellion
             ,
             then
             course
             hempe
             or
             towe
             ,
          
           
             Might
             not
             men
             justly
             say
             he
             were
             an
             Asse
             ,
          
           
             Triumphing
             that
             he
             once
             a
             Villaine
             was
             ,
          
           
             And
             that
             he
             wore
             a
             Halter
             for
             the
             nonce
             ,
          
           
             In
             pride
             that
             he
             deserued
             hanging
             once
             ?
          
           
             Such
             with
             our
             Heau'nly
             father
             is
             the
             Case
             ,
          
           
             Of
             our
             first
             Parents
             and
             their
             sinfull
             Race
             ,
          
           
             Apparell
             is
             the
             miserable
             signe
             ,
          
           
             That
             we
             are
             Traytors
             to
             our
             Lord
             diuine
             ,
          
           
             And
             we
             (
             like
             Rebels
             )
             still
             most
             pride
             doe
             take
          
           
             In
             that
             which
             still
             most
             humble
             should
             vs
             make
             ,
          
           
             Apparell
             is
             the
             prison
             for
             our
             sinne
          
           
             Which
             most
             should
             shame
             ,
             yet
             most
             we
             Glory
             in
             ;
          
           
             Apparell
             is
             the
             sheete
             of
             shame
             as
             't
             were
          
           
             Which
             (
             for
             our
             pennance
             )
             on
             our
             backs
             we
             beare
             ,
          
           
             For
             man
             Apparell
             neuer
             did
             receaue
             ,
          
           
             Till
             he
             eternall
             Death
             deferu'd
             to
             haue
             .
          
           
           
             And
             thus
             Apparell
             to
             our
             sense
             doth
             tell
          
           
             Our
             sinnes'gainst
             Heau'n
             ,
             and
             our
             desert
             of
             Hell.
          
           
             How
             vaine
             is
             it
             for
             man
             ,
             a
             clod
             of
             Earth
             ,
          
           
             To
             boast
             of
             his
             high
             progeny
             ,
             or
             Birth
             ,
          
           
             Because
             (
             perhaps
             )
             his
             Ancestors
             were
             good
             ,
          
           
             And
             sprung
             from
             Royall
             ,
             or
             from
             Noble
             blood
             ,
          
           
             Where
             Vertuous
             worth
             did
             in
             their
             minds
             inherit
             ,
          
           
             Who
             gain'd
             their
             Honours
             by
             Desert
             and
             Merit
             ;
          
           
             Whose
             seruice
             for
             their
             Country
             neuer
             fai'ld
             ,
          
           
             Who
             (
             Iustly
             )
             liu'd
             belou'd
             ,
             and
             dyde
             bewaild
             ;
          
           
             Whose
             Affability
             ,
             and
             Charity
             ,
          
           
             Guided
             with
             pious
             true
             sincerity
             ,
          
           
             Who
             to
             their
             states
             lou'd
             all
             their
             liues
             to
             ioyne
          
           
             Loue
             before
             Lands
             ,
             Compassion
             before
             Coyne
             ?
          
           
             Yet
             when
             they
             dyde
             ,
             left
             wealth
             ,
             place
             ,
             state
             ,
             and
             name
          
           
             To
             Heires
             ,
             who
             bury
             all
             in
             Pride
             &
             shame
             ,
          
           
             But
             as
             the
             Sacred
             Truth
             most
             truely
             faith
             ,
          
           
             
               No
               man
               is
               saued
               by
               anothers
               Faith
            
             ;
          
           
             So
             though
             some
             honorable
             Rascals
             haue
          
           
             Turn'd
             their
             good
             Fathers
             to
             their
             timelesse
             graue
             ,
          
           
             And
             like
             Ignoble
             noble
             Reprobates
             ,
          
           
             Possesse
             their
             names
             ,
             possessions
             and
             estates
             ,
          
           
             Yet
             (
             for
             they
             want
             their
             Vertues
             and
             Deserts
             )
          
           
             They
             are
             but
             Bastards
             to
             their
             better
             parts
             .
          
           
           
             Manasse
             ;
             was
             good
             Hezechiahs
             sonne
             ,
          
           
             And
             with
             his
             Crowne
             into
             all
             Vice
             did
             runne
             ;
          
           
             The
             Sire
             the
             title
             of
             good
             King
             did
             gaine
             ,
          
           
             The
             Sonne
             's
             Abominations
             all
             did
             staine
             ;
          
           
             Honour
             is
             better
             well
             deseru'd
             then
             had
             ,
          
           
             To
             haue
             it
             vndeseru'd
             ,
             that
             Honour
             's
             bad
             .
          
           
             In
             Rome
             an
             ancient
             Law
             there
             sometimes
             was
             ,
          
           
             Men
             should
             through
             Vertue
             vnto
             Honor
             passe
             :
          
           
             And
             t'
             is
             a
             Rule
             that
             euermore
             hath
             bin
             ,
          
           
             
               That
               Honor
               's
               best
               which
               a
               mans
               selfe
               doth
               win
               .
            
          
           
             T'
             is
             no
             Inheritance
             ,
             nor
             can
             it
             runne
          
           
             Successiuely
             from
             Father
             to
             the
             Sonne
             ;
          
           
             But
             if
             the
             Father
             nobly
             were
             inclin'd
             ,
          
           
             And
             that
             the
             Sonne
             retaine
             his
             worthy
             mind
             ,
          
           
             If
             with
             his
             Fathers
             goods
             he
             doth
             possesse
          
           
             His
             Goodnesse
             ,
             all
             the
             world
             must
             then
             confesse
             ,
          
           
             That
             that
             Sonnes
             Honor
             doth
             it selfe
             display
          
           
             To
             be
             the
             Fathers
             equall
             euery
             way
             .
          
           
             Thus
             good
             mens
             Honors
             can
             no
             Honor
             be
          
           
             To
             their
             degenerate
             posteritie
             ,
          
           
             But
             t'
             is
             a
             mans
             owne
             Vertue
             ,
             or
             his
             Vice
             ,
          
           
             That
             makes
             his
             Honor
             high
             or
             low
             in
             price
             .
          
           
             Of
             Birth
             ,
             or
             Parents
             ,
             no
             man
             can
             be
             proud
             ,
          
           
             Pride
             of
             Apparell
             here
             is
             disallow'd
             ,
          
           
           
             Pride
             of
             our
             Riches
             is
             most
             Transitory
             ,
          
           
             Pride
             of
             our
             Beauty
             is
             a
             fading
             Glory
             :
          
           
             Pride
             of
             our
             wisedome
             is
             most
             foolish
             folly
             ;
          
           
             Pride
             of
             our
             holines
             is
             most
             vnholy
             ,
          
           
             Pride
             of
             our
             strength
             is
             weaknes
             in
             our
             thought
             ,
          
           
             And
             Pride
             in
             any
             thing
             will
             come
             to
             nought
             .
          
           
             Pride
             hath
             bin
             Author
             of
             the
             worst
             of
             Euils
             ,
          
           
             Transforming
             glorious
             Angels
             ,
             into
             Deuils
             ,
             
          
           
             When
             Babels
             Tow'r
             gan
             proudly
             to
             aspire
             ,
          
           
             With
             toungs
             confusion
             ,
             they
             were
             payd
             their
             hire
             .
          
           
             Through
             Pride
             the
             King
             of
             Babels
             glory
             ceast
             ,
          
           
             And
             for
             seau'n
             yeares
             it
             turn'd
             him
             to
             a
             beast
             :
          
           
             And
             Baltazar
             that
             next
             him
             did
             succeede
             ,
          
           
             Lost
             life
             ,
             and
             left
             his
             Empire
             to
             the
             
             Mede
             ,
          
           
             For
             Pride
             ,
             to
             Tyre
             and
             Zidons
             wicked
             Kings
          
           
             The
             Prophet
             a
             most
             iust
             destruction
             brings
             .
             
          
           
             Herod
             mid'st
             his
             vngodly
             glory
             vaine
             ,
          
           
             Through
             Pride
             was
             eaten
             vp
             with
             wormes
             ,
             and
             slaine
             .
          
           
             Great
             Alexander
             ,
             King
             of
             Macedon
          
           
             Disdaind
             to
             be
             his
             father
             Phillips
             son
             ,
          
           
             But
             he
             from
             Iupiter
             would
             be
             descended
             ,
             
          
           
             And
             as
             a
             god
             be
             honour'd
             and
             attended
             ,
          
           
             Yet
             Bain'de
             at
             Babilon
             he
             prou'd
             but
             man
             ,
          
           
             His
             godhead
             ended
             foolish
             as
             't
             began
             .
             
          
           
           
             There
             was
             in
             Sicilie
             a
             proud
             Phisitian
             ,
          
           
             Menecrates
             ,
             and
             he
             through
             high
             ambition
             ,
          
           
             To
             be
             a
             god
             himselfe
             would
             needs
             preferre
             ,
          
           
             And
             would
             (
             forsooth
             )
             be
             named
             Iupiter
             ,
          
           
             King
             Dionysius
             making
             a
             great
             feast
             ,
          
           
             This
             foole-god
             daigned
             there
             to
             be
             a
             guest
             ,
          
           
             Who
             by
             himselfe
             was
             at
             a
             table
             plac'd
             ,
          
           
             (
             Because
             his
             godhead
             should
             the
             more
             be
             grac'd
             )
          
           
             The
             other
             Guests
             themselues
             did
             feed
             and
             fill
             ,
          
           
             He
             at
             an
             empty
             table
             still
             ,
             sate
             still
             .
          
           
             At
             last
             with
             humble
             lowe
             Sir
             Reuerence
             ,
          
           
             A
             fellow
             came
             with
             fire
             and
             frankinscence
             ,
          
           
             And
             offer'd
             to
             his
             godship
             ,
             (
             saying
             then
             )
          
           
             Perfumes
             were
             fit
             for
             gods
             ,
             and
             meate
             for
             men
             :
          
           
             The
             god
             in
             anger
             rose
             incontinent
          
           
             Well
             laugh'd
             at
             ,
             and
             an
             hunger'd
             ,
             home
             he
             went.
          
           
             The
             Romane
             Emperour
             Domitian
          
           
             Would
             be
             a
             god
             ,
             was
             murder'd
             by
             a
             man.
          
           
             Caligula
             would
             be
             a
             god
             of
             wonder
             ,
          
           
             And
             counterfeite
             the
             lightning
             ,
             and
             the
             thunder
             ;
          
           
             Yet
             euery
             Reall
             heau'nly
             Thundercracke
             ,
          
           
             This
             caitife
             in
             such
             feare
             and
             terror
             strake
             ,
          
           
             That
             he
             would
             quake
             ,
             and
             shake
             ,
             &
             hide
             his
             head
          
           
             In
             any
             hole
             ,
             or
             vnderneath
             his
             bed
             .
          
           
           
             And
             when
             this
             godlesse
             god
             had
             many
             slaine
             ,
          
           
             A
             Tribune
             dasht
             out
             his
             vngodly
             braine
             .
          
           
             
               And
               thus
               th'
               Almighty
               still
               '
               gainst
               Pride
               doth
               frown
            
          
           
             
               And
               casts
               Ambition
               headlong
               tumbling
               down
            
          
           
             Great
             Pompey
             would
             be
             all
             the
             worlds
             superior
             ,
          
           
             And
             Caesar
             vnto
             none
             would
             be
             inferior
             ;
          
           
             But
             as
             they
             both
             did
             liue
             ambitiously
             ,
          
           
             So
             both
             of
             them
             vntimely
             deaths
             did
             dye
             .
          
           
             The
             one
             in
             AEgypt
             had
             his
             finall
             fall
             ,
          
           
             The
             other
             murthered
             in
             the
             Capitall
             .
          
           
             A
             number
             more
             Examples
             are
             beside
             ,
          
           
             Which
             shewes
             the
             miserable
             fall
             of
             Pride
             :
          
           
             And
             doe
             men
             thinke
             to
             goe
             to
             Heauen
             from
             henc●
          
           
             By
             Pride
             ,
             which
             cast
             the
             Angels
             headlong
             thrnce
          
           
             Or
             doe
             they
             through
             their
             Pride
             suppose
             to
             dwel●
          
           
             With
             God
             ,
             when
             Pride
             did
             make
             the
             Deuils
             in
             he●●
          
           
             It
             is
             a
             Vice
             which
             God
             abhors
             and
             hates
             ,
          
           
             And
             '
             gainst
             it
             doth
             denounce
             most
             fearfull
             threats
          
           
             Oh
             ,
             what
             a
             hellish
             vanity
             is
             't
             then
             ,
          
           
             That
             doth
             bewitch
             vaine
             women
             ,
             and
             vile
             men
             ,
          
           
             That
             rather
             then
             their
             Pride
             and
             they
             will
             seuer
             ,
          
           
             They
             will
             be
             seuer'd
             from
             their
             God
             for
             euer
             ?
          
           
             I
             will
             not
             say
             but
             Wisedome
             ,
             Beauty
             ,
             Health
             ,
          
           
             Strength
             ,
             Courage
             ,
             Magnanimity
             ,
             and
             Wealth
             ,
          
           
           
             ●mpires
             and
             Kingdomes
             ,
             rule
             of
             Sea
             ,
             and
             Land
             ,
          
           
             Are
             Blessings
             giuen
             by
             Gods
             all-giuing
             hand
             ;
          
           
             But
             not
             because
             on
             whom
             they
             are
             bestow'd
             ,
          
           
             Should
             in
             the
             stead
             of
             Humblenesse
             waxe
             proud
             ,
          
           
             Or
             with
             vaine
             glory
             haue
             their
             hearts
             vpheau'd
             ,
          
           
             ●or
             why
             ?
             what
             ere
             they
             haue
             they
             haue
             receiu'd
             :
             
          
           
             And
             therefore
             Christian
             Kings
             their
             stiles
             do
             grace
          
           
             King
             
               By
               the
               Grace
               of
               God
            
             ,
             of
             such
             a
             place
             ;
          
           
             Because
             by
             his
             especiall
             prouidence
          
           
             They
             hold
             
               Maiesticall
               Preheminence
            
             .
          
           
             And
             as
             there
             is
             distinction
             of
             Estates
             ,
          
           
             Some
             Emp'rours
             ,
             Kings
             ,
             and
             mighty
             potentates
             ,
          
           
             Superiors
             and
             Inferiors
             ,
             each
             degree
             ,
          
           
             As
             Gods
             foreknowing
             Knowledge
             did
             foresee
             :
          
           
             Yet
             he
             did
             not
             bestow
             his
             bounteous
             Grace
             ,
          
           
             To
             make
             the
             great
             men
             proud
             ,
             or
             mean
             men
             base
             ;
          
           
             Abundant
             wealth
             he
             to
             the
             Rich
             doth
             lend
             ,
          
           
             That
             they
             the
             poore
             should
             succour
             and
             defend
             .
          
           
             He
             hath
             giu'n
             strength
             and
             vigour
             to
             the
             strong
             ,
          
           
             That
             they
             shold
             guard
             the
             weak
             frō
             taking
             wrōg
             :
          
           
             To
             some
             he
             knowledge
             doth
             and
             wisdome
             grant
          
           
             Because
             they
             should
             instruct
             the
             Ignorant
             ,
          
           
             But
             vnto
             no
             man
             God
             his
             gifts
             doth
             giue
             ,
          
           
             To
             make
             him
             proud
             ,
             or
             proudly
             here
             to
             liue
             .
          
           
           
             For
             Pride
             of
             state
             ,
             birth
             ,
             wisdome
             ,
             beauty
             ,
             streng●●
          
           
             And
             Pride
             in
             any
             thing
             ,
             will
             fall
             at
             length
             ,
          
           
             But
             to
             be
             proud
             of
             Garments
             that
             we
             weare
             ,
          
           
             Is
             the
             most
             foolish
             pride
             a
             heart
             can
             beare
             .
          
           
             For
             as
             they
             are
             the
             Robes
             of
             sinne
             and
             shame
             ,
          
           
             Yet
             more
             may
             be
             consider'd
             in
             the
             same
             :
          
           
             Be
             they
             compact
             of
             silke
             ,
             or
             cloath
             of
             Gold
             ,
          
           
             Or
             cloath
             ,
             or
             stuffes
             (
             of
             which
             ther
             's
             manifold
          
           
             Let
             them
             be
             lac'd
             and
             fac'd
             ,
             or
             cut
             ,
             or
             plame
             ,
          
           
             Or
             any
             way
             to
             please
             the
             wearers
             braine
             ,
          
           
             And
             then
             let
             him
             or
             her
             that
             is
             so
             clad
             ,
          
           
             Consider
             but
             from
             whence
             these
             stuffes
             were
             h●●
          
           
             How
             Mercers
             ,
             Drapers
             ,
             silkmen
             were
             the
             Iayle●●
          
           
             And
             how
             the
             Executioners
             were
             Taylers
             ,
          
           
             That
             did
             both
             draw
             and
             quarter
             ,
             slash
             and
             cut
             ,
          
           
             And
             into
             shape
             ,
             mishapen
             Remnants
             put
             .
          
           
             Consider
             this
             ,
             and
             you
             will
             graunt
             me
             than
          
           
             That
             Garments
             are
             the
             workmanship
             of
             man.
          
           
             Which
             being
             graunted
             no
             man
             can
             deny
             ,
          
           
             But
             that
             it
             is
             most
             base
             Idolatry
             ,
          
           
             T'
             adore
             or
             worship
             a
             proud
             paltry
             knaue
             ,
          
           
             Because
             the
             Mercers
             shop
             hath
             made
             him
             braue
          
           
             Or
             is
             it
             not
             a
             foolish
             vile
             mistaking
             ,
          
           
             To
             Honour
             things
             that
             are
             a
             *
             Taylers
             making
          
           
           
             ●ake
             a
             vowe
             ,
             that
             neuer
             whilst
             I
             liue
          
           
             Reuerence
             to
             Apparell
             will
             I
             giue
             ;
          
           
             Some
             goodnes
             in
             the
             wearer
             I
             'le
             expect
             ,
          
           
             Or
             else
             from
             me
             he
             shall
             haue
             small
             Respect
             ;
          
           
             ●in
             him
             vertue
             ,
             and
             true
             worth
             I
             see
          
           
             He
             shall
             haue
             heart
             and
             hand
             ,
             and
             cap
             and
             knee
             .
          
           
             T
             is
             laudable
             there
             should
             be
             diffrence
             made
          
           
             Betwixt
             a
             Courtier
             ,
             and
             a
             man
             of
             Trade
             :
          
           
             For
             sense
             or
             Reason
             neuer
             would
             allowe
             ,
          
           
             A
             Prince
             to
             weare
             a
             habit
             for
             the
             Plow
             .
          
           
             Nor
             that
             a
             Carter
             vainely
             should
             aspire
             ,
          
           
             To
             thrust
             himselfe
             into
             the
             Court
             attire
             .
          
           
             Distinctions
             of
             Office
             ,
             and
             Estates
          
           
             Should
             habite
             men
             according
             to
             their
             rates
             ,
          
           
             Thus
             I
             rich
             Garments
             no
             way
             doe
             condemne
             ,
          
           
             But
             I
             say
             no
             man
             should
             be
             proud
             of
             them
             .
          
           
             In
             Rome
             ,
             a
             worthy
             Law
             there
             once
             was
             made
          
           
             That
             euery
             man
             ,
             of
             each
             degree
             and
             Trade
             ,
          
           
             Some
             marke
             or
             Badge
             ,
             about
             him
             still
             should
             beare
          
           
             Whereby
             men
             knew
             what
             all
             mens
             callings
             were
             .
          
           
             The
             Consuls
             bearing
             the
             Imperiall
             sway
             ,
          
           
             (
             To
             whose
             command
             the
             rest
             did
             all
             obey
             )
          
           
             In
             token
             they
             had
             power
             to
             saue
             or
             spill
             ,
          
           
             Had
             Rods
             and
             Axes
             borne
             before
             them
             still
             .
          
           
           
             The
             Censors
             ,
             Tribunes
             ,
             AEdiles
             ,
             and
             the
             Praeto●●
          
           
             The
             Prouosts
             ,
             Questors
             ,
             and
             the
             Conseruators
          
           
             And
             as
             their
             offices
             were
             sundry
             varied
             ,
          
           
             So
             were
             they
             known
             by
             things
             before
             thē
             carri●●
          
           
             The
             Mercer
             in
             his
             hat
             did
             weare
             some
             tuffe
             ,
          
           
             Or
             shred
             of
             Silke
             ,
             or
             Gold
             ,
             his
             trading
             stuffe
             ;
          
           
             Drapers
             a
             piece
             of
             List
             ,
             Weauers
             a
             quill
             ,
          
           
             Or
             Shuttle
             ,
             and
             the
             Millers
             wore
             a
             Mill.
          
           
             And
             as
             men
             sundry
             callings
             did
             apply
             ,
          
           
             So
             they
             wore
             Emblemes
             to
             be
             knowne
             thereby
          
           
             But
             if
             that
             Law
             were
             but
             enacted
             have
             ,
          
           
             How
             like
             a
             pluckt
             crow
             ,
             would
             Pride
             sppn
             appe●●
          
           
             Some
             Taylors
             would
             be
             very
             mad
             no
             that
             ,
          
           
             To
             weare
             each
             one
             a
             Bodkin
             in
             his
             hat
             ;
          
           
             There
             's
             many
             a
             wealthy
             Whoremaster
             would
             sk●●
          
           
             And
             stamp
             ,
             and
             start
             ,
             if
             he
             should
             weare
             a
             whip
          
           
             But
             yet
             if
             euery
             thiefe
             of
             each
             degree
             ,
          
           
             Were
             bound
             to
             weare
             a
             halter
             ,
             God
             blesse
             me
             :
          
           
             A
             Butcher
             still
             should
             weare
             a
             Calfe
             or
             Bull
             ,
          
           
             My selfe
             (
             a
             Waterman
             )
             an
             Oare
             or
             Skull
             .
          
           
             And
             so
             of
             euery
             trade
             both
             high
             and
             low
             ,
          
           
             Men
             (
             by
             their
             badgs
             )
             would
             their
             functions
             kno●●
          
           
             And
             if
             this
             Law
             the
             State
             would
             but
             allow
             ,
          
           
             Some
             would
             weare
             calues
             skins
             ,
             that
             weare
             velu●
             no●●
          
           
           
             Then
             Iacke
             and
             Iill
             ,
             and
             Iohn
             a
             Drones
             his
             issue
             ,
          
           
             Would
             not
             be
             trapped
             thus
             in
             Gold
             and
             Tissue
             .
          
           
             T
             is
             strange
             a
             coxcomb
             should
             be
             cram'd
             with
             pride
          
           
             Because
             he
             hath
             got
             on
             a
             Sattin
             hide
             :
          
           
             A
             Grogreine
             outside
             ,
             or
             a
             siluer
             Case
             ,
          
           
             Some
             fourercene
             groce
             of
             buttons
             ,
             and
             Gold
             lace
             ;
          
           
             When
             as
             perhaps
             the
             corps
             that
             carries
             all
             ,
          
           
             Hath
             more
             diseases
             then
             an
             Hospitall
             ,
          
           
             And
             (
             which
             is
             worst
             of
             all
             )
             his
             Soule
             within
             ,
          
           
             Stinks
             before
             God
             ,
             polluted
             with
             all
             sinne
             .
          
           
             Romes
             great
             Arch-tyrant
             Nero
             ,
             amongst
             all
          
           
             The
             matchlesse
             vices
             he
             was
             tax'd
             withall
             ,
          
           
             (
             The
             which
             in
             Histories
             are
             truely
             told
             ,
             )
          
           
             Was
             said
             t'
             haue
             shoe
             ties
             all
             wroght
             o'r
             with
             gold
             ,
          
           
             If
             in
             an
             Emperour
             (
             that
             did
             command
          
           
             Almost
             the
             whole
             world
             ,
             both
             by
             Sea
             and
             Land
             ,
          
           
             Who
             countermaunded
             Indian
             Mines
             and
             Iems
             ,
          
           
             Iewels
             ,
             and
             almost
             all
             earths
             Diadems
             ,
             )
          
           
             To
             weare
             gold
             shoe-strings
             were
             a
             noted
             crime
             ,
          
           
             What
             may
             it
             then
             be
             called
             at
             this
             time
             ,
          
           
             When
             many
             ,
             below
             Hostlers
             in
             degree
             ,
          
           
             Shall
             (
             in
             that
             point
             )
             be
             deck'r
             as
             braue
             as
             lie
             ?
          
           
             Thus
             Pride
             's
             an
             ouer
             weening
             selfe
             opinion
             ,
          
           
             A
             soule
             destroyer
             ,
             come
             from
             Hels
             dominion
             ;
          
           
           
             Wch
             makes
             vainglorious
             fools
             ,
             &
             new
             foūd
             mad●●
          
           
             Forget
             they
             are
             of
             Eues
             good
             brood
             and
             Adams
             .
          
           
             But
             yet
             though
             Pride
             be
             a
             most
             deadly
             sinne
             ,
          
           
             What
             numbers
             by
             it
             doe
             their
             liuings
             winne
             ?
          
           
             A
             world
             of
             people
             daily
             liue
             thereby
             ;
          
           
             Who
             (
             were
             it
             not
             for
             it
             )
             would
             starue
             and
             die
             ,
          
           
             Thus
             (
             by
             corruption
             of
             the
             time
             )
             this
             Deuill
          
           
             Is
             growne
             a
             good
             ,
             bad
             ,
             necessary
             euill
             .
          
           
             She
             is
             the
             Mercers
             onely
             fruitfull
             crop
             ,
          
           
             She
             is
             the
             Silkman
             ,
             and
             th'Embroderers
             prop
             ;
          
           
             She
             is
             the
             Haberdashers
             chiefest
             Stocke
             ,
          
           
             She
             feeds
             the
             Hat-sellers
             with
             blocke
             on
             blocke
             ;
          
           
             She
             makes
             the
             Dyers
             daily
             liue
             to
             dye
             ,
          
           
             And
             dye
             to
             liue
             ,
             and
             get
             great
             wealth
             thereby
             ;
          
           
             She
             (
             euery
             Winter
             )
             doth
             the
             Draper
             feed
             ,
          
           
             With
             food
             and
             fucll
             She
             supplies
             his
             need
             .
          
           
             She
             is
             the
             Taylors
             goddesse
             ;
             and
             vpon
             her
          
           
             He
             dayly
             doth
             attend
             to
             doe
             her
             honour
             ;
          
           
             All
             the
             inuentions
             of
             his
             studious
             pate
             ,
          
           
             He
             at
             her
             shrine
             doth
             euer
             consecrate
             ,
          
           
             He
             takes
             the
             world
             for
             fashions
             that
             excell
             ,
          
           
             From
             Germany
             ,
             from
             France
             ,
             from
             Spain
             ,
             from
             hel
          
           
             And
             would
             himselfe
             be
             out
             of
             fashion
             quite
             ,
          
           
             But
             that
             Pride
             in
             new
             fashions
             doth
             delight
             ,
          
           
           
             Silkweauers
             (
             of
             the
             which
             abundance
             are
             )
          
           
             Wer
             't
             not
             for
             Pride
             would
             liue
             ,
             &
             dye
             most
             bare
             :
          
           
             Sempsters
             with
             ruffs
             &
             cuffs
             ,
             &
             quoifes
             ,
             &
             caules
             ,
          
           
             And
             falles
             ,
             (
             wer
             't
             not
             for
             pride
             )
             would
             soone
             haue
             falles
             .
          
           
             The
             Shooemakers
             neat
             ,
             spanish
             ,
             or
             polony
             ,
          
           
             Would
             haue
             but
             single-soal'd
             receit
             of
             money
             .
          
           
             The
             sweet
             Perfumers
             ,
             would
             be
             out
             of
             fauour
             ,
          
           
             And
             hardly
             could
             be
             sauers
             by
             their
             sauour
             .
          
           
             The
             glittring
             Ieweller
             ,
             and
             lapidary
             ,
          
           
             (
             But
             for
             Prides
             helpe
             )
             were
             in
             a
             poore
             quandary
             ,
          
           
             The
             goldsmiths
             plate
             would
             stand
             vpō
             his
             shelfe
             ,
          
           
             And
             's
             Rings
             &
             Chaines
             he
             might
             weare
             out
             himselfe
             .
          
           
             Thus
             Pride
             is
             growne
             to
             such
             a
             height
             ,
             I
             say
             ,
          
           
             That
             were
             she
             banish'd
             ,
             many
             would
             decay
             :
          
           
             For
             many
             hundred
             thousands
             are
             you
             see
             ,
          
           
             Which
             from
             Pride
             only
             ,
             haue
             meat
             ,
             cloaths
             ,
             &
             fee
             :
          
           
             No
             maruell
             then
             she
             hath
             so
             many
             friends
             ,
          
           
             When
             as
             such
             numbers
             on
             her
             still
             depends
             ,
          
           
             Pride
             is
             their
             Mistris
             ,
             she
             maintaines
             them
             still
             ,
          
           
             And
             they
             must
             serue
             her
             ,
             or
             their
             case
             is
             ill
             .
          
           
             But
             as
             so
             many
             numbers
             numberles
             ,
          
           
             Doe
             liue
             and
             florish
             hcere
             by
             Prides
             excesse
             :
          
           
             So
             are
             there
             more
             vpon
             the
             other
             side
             ,
          
           
             Toild
             and
             tormented
             still
             to
             maintaine
             Pride
             .
          
           
           
             The
             painfull
             Plowmans
             paines
             doe
             neuer
             cease
             ,
          
           
             For
             he
             must
             pay
             his
             Rent
             ,
             or
             lose
             his
             lease
             ,
          
           
             And
             though
             his
             Father
             and
             himselfe
             before
             ,
          
           
             Haue
             oft
             releiu'd
             poore
             beggers
             at
             their
             doore
             ;
          
           
             Yet
             now
             his
             Fine
             and
             Rent
             so
             high
             is
             rear'd
             ,
          
           
             That
             his
             own
             meat
             and
             clothes
             are
             scarcely
             clear'd
          
           
             Let
             him
             toyle
             Night
             and
             Day
             ,
             in
             light
             and
             darke
             ,
          
           
             Lye
             with
             the
             Lambe
             downe
             ,
             rise
             vp
             with
             the
             Lark
          
           
             Dig
             ,
             delue
             ,
             plow
             ,
             sow
             ,
             rake
             ,
             harrow
             ,
             mow
             ,
             lop
             ,
             fel
          
           
             Plant
             ,
             graft
             ,
             hedg
             ,
             ditch
             ,
             thresh
             ,
             winnow
             ,
             buy
             &
             sel
          
           
             Yet
             all
             the
             money
             that
             his
             paines
             can
             win
             ,
          
           
             His
             Landlord
             hath
             a
             purse
             to
             put
             it
             in
             .
          
           
             What
             though
             his
             Cattell
             with
             the
             Murraine
             dye
             ,
          
           
             Or
             that
             the
             Earth
             her
             fruitfulnesse
             deny
             ?
          
           
             Let
             him
             beg
             ,
             steale
             ,
             grieue
             ,
             labour
             and
             lament
             ,
          
           
             The
             Quarter
             comes
             ,
             and
             he
             must
             pay
             his
             Rent
             ;
          
           
             And
             though
             his
             Fine
             and
             Rent
             be
             high
             ,
             yet
             higher
          
           
             It
             shall
             be
             rais'd
             if
             once
             it
             doth
             expire
             :
          
           
             Let
             him
             and
             his
             be
             hunger-staru'd
             and
             pin'de
             ,
          
           
             His
             Landlord
             hath
             decreed
             his
             bones
             to
             grinde
             :
          
           
             And
             all
             this
             carke
             and
             care
             ,
             and
             toile
             of
             his
             ,
          
           
             Most
             chiefly
             for
             this
             onely
             purpose
             is
             ,
          
           
             That
             his
             gay
             Landlord
             may
             weare
             silke
             &
             feather
          
           
             whilst
             he
             poore
             drudg
             can
             scare
             get
             frize
             or
             lether
          
           
           
             Because
             his
             Landlady
             may
             dog
             the
             fashion
             ,
          
           
             Hce's
             rack'd
             and
             tortur'd
             without
             all
             compassion
             ;
          
           
             Because
             his
             Landlords
             Heyre
             may
             haue
             renowne
          
           
             Of
             Gentle
             ,
             though
             the
             Father
             be
             a
             Clowne
             :
          
           
             Because
             his
             landlords
             daughters
             (
             deckt
             with
             pride
             )
          
           
             With
             ill
             got
             portions
             may
             be
             Ladyfide
             .
          
           
             In
             briefe
             ,
             poore
             tenants
             pinch
             for
             clothes
             and
             food
          
           
             To
             dawb
             with
             pride
             their
             landlords
             &
             their
             brood
             .
          
           
             The
             time
             hath
             bin
             (
             and
             some
             aliue
             knowes
             when
             )
          
           
             A
             Gentleman
             would
             keepe
             some
             twenty
             men
             ,
          
           
             Some
             thirty
             ,
             and
             some
             forty
             ,
             lesse
             or
             more
             ,
          
           
             (
             As
             their
             Reuenews
             did
             supply
             their
             store
             .
             )
          
           
             And
             with
             their
             Charities
             did
             freely
             feed
          
           
             The
             Widow
             ,
             Fatherlesse
             ,
             and
             poore
             mans
             need
             ,
          
           
             But
             then
             did
             Pride
             keepe
             residence
             in
             Hell
             ,
          
           
             And
             was
             not
             come
             vpon
             the
             earth
             to
             dwell
             :
          
           
             Then
             Loue
             and
             Charity
             were
             at
             the
             best
             ,
          
           
             Exprest
             in
             Action
             ,
             not
             in
             words
             profest
             .
          
           
             Then
             conscience
             did
             keep
             men
             in
             much
             more
             aw
             ,
          
           
             Than
             the
             seuerest
             rigour
             of
             the
             Law
             ,
          
           
             And
             then
             did
             men
             feare
             God
             (
             with
             true
             intent
             ,
             )
          
           
             For
             's
             Goodnesse
             ,
             not
             for
             feare
             of
             punishment
             .
          
           
             But
             since
             the
             Leprosie
             of
             Pride
             hath
             spread
          
           
             The
             world
             all
             ouer
             ,
             from
             the
             foot
             to
             head
             :
          
           
           
             Good
             bounteous
             house
             keeping
             is
             quite
             destroyd
             ,
          
           
             And
             large
             reuenewes
             other
             waies
             imployd
             .
          
           
             Meanes
             that
             would
             foure
             men
             meate
             and
             meanes
             allow
             ,
          
           
             Are
             turnd
             to
             garters
             ,
             and
             to
             roses
             now
             ,
          
           
             That
             which
             kept
             twenty
             ,
             in
             the
             dayes
             of
             old
             ,
          
           
             By
             Sathan
             is
             turn'd
             sattin
             ,
             silke
             ,
             and
             gold
             ,
          
           
             And
             one
             man
             now
             in
             garments
             he
             doth
             weare
             ,
          
           
             A
             thousand
             akers
             ,
             on
             his
             backe
             doth
             beare
             ,
          
           
             Whose
             auncestours
             in
             former
             times
             did
             giue
             ,
          
           
             Meanes
             for
             a
             hundred
             people
             well
             to
             liue
             .
          
           
             Now
             all
             is
             shrunke
             ,
             (
             in
             this
             vainglorious
             age
             )
          
           
             T'atire
             a
             coach
             ,
             a
             fooreman
             ,
             and
             a
             page
             ,
          
           
             To
             dice
             ,
             drinke
             ,
             drabs
             ,
             tobaco
             ,
             haukes
             &
             hounds
             ,
          
           
             These
             are
             th'
             expence
             of
             many
             thousand
             pounds
             ,
          
           
             Whilst
             many
             thousands
             starue
             ,
             and
             dayly
             perish
             ,
          
           
             For
             want
             of
             that
             which
             these
             things
             vs'd
             to
             cherrish
             .
          
           
             There
             is
             another
             Pride
             ,
             which
             some
             professe
             ,
          
           
             Who
             pinch
             their
             bellies
             ,
             for
             their
             backs
             excesse
             :
          
           
             For
             thogh
             their
             guts
             throgh
             wāt
             of
             fodder
             clings
             ,
          
           
             That
             they
             will
             make
             sweet
             filthy
             fidle
             strings
             ;
          
           
             Yet
             they
             will
             suffer
             their
             mawes
             pine
             and
             lacke
             ,
          
           
             To
             trap
             with
             rich
             caparisons
             the
             backe
             .
          
           
             These
             people
             ,
             (
             for
             their
             Pride
             )
             doe
             Iustice
             still
             ,
          
           
             Vpon
             themselues
             ,
             although
             against
             their
             will.
          
           
           
             They
             doe
             in
             their
             owne
             stomacks
             ,
             try
             ,
             examine
             ,
          
           
             And
             punish
             outward
             Pride
             ,
             with
             inward
             famine
             .
          
           
             But
             sure
             the
             people
             can
             be
             good
             for
             nothing
             .
          
           
             Whose
             reputation
             onely
             lyes
             in
             cloathing
             :
          
           
             Because
             the
             hangman
             oft
             may
             execute
             ,
          
           
             A
             theife
             or
             traytor
             in
             a
             Sattin
             sute
             ,
          
           
             And
             that
             sute
             which
             did
             from
             the
             gallowes
             drop
             ,
          
           
             May
             be
             againe
             hang'd
             in
             a
             Broakers
             shop
             ,
          
           
             And
             then
             againe
             hang'd
             ,
             and
             bought
             ,
             and
             worne
             ,
          
           
             And
             secondly
             (
             perhaps
             )
             to
             Tiburne
             borne
             :
          
           
             And
             so
             at
             sundry
             times
             ,
             for
             sundry
             crimes
             ,
          
           
             The
             Hangman
             may
             sell
             one
             sute
             sixteene
             times
             ,
          
           
             And
             euery
             Rascall
             ,
             that
             the
             same
             did
             fit
             ,
          
           
             To
             be
             exceeding
             pockie
             proud
             of
             it
             .
          
           
             And
             all
             this
             while
             ,
             (
             if
             I
             be
             not
             mistooke
             )
          
           
             It
             rests
             vnpaid
             for
             ,
             in
             the
             Mercers
             booke
             .
          
           
             Thus
             many
             simple
             honest
             people
             haue
             ,
          
           
             Giun
             worship
             to
             a
             Broakers
             wardrobe
             slaue
             ,
          
           
             Thus
             Tiburne
             ornaments
             may
             be
             the
             cheife
             ,
          
           
             To
             grace
             a
             graceles
             arrant
             whoore
             ,
             or
             theife
             .
          
           
             A
             Seruing-man
             ,
             I
             incast
             cloathes
             haue
             seene
             ,
          
           
             That
             did
             himselfe
             so
             strangely
             ouerween
             ,
          
           
             That
             with
             himselfe
             he
             out
             of
             knowledge
             grewe
             ,
          
           
             And
             therefore
             all
             his
             old
             friends
             he
             misknewe
             ,
          
           
           
             Vntill
             at
             last
             his
             Glory
             did
             decease
             ,
          
           
             His
             outside
             fac'd
             with
             tatters
             ,
             rags
             and
             greace
             ,
          
           
             Then
             did
             the
             changing
             time
             ,
             the
             youth
             transform
          
           
             From
             Pride
             to
             be
             as
             lowly
             as
             a
             worme
             .
          
           
             A
             many
             of
             these
             fellowes
             may
             be
             had
             ,
          
           
             That
             's
             meeke
             or
             proud
             ,
             as
             clothes
             are
             good
             or
             bad
             .
          
           
             I
             leaue
             true
             Noble
             Gentry
             all
             this
             while
             ,
          
           
             Out
             of
             the
             reach
             of
             my
             inuectiue
             stile
             ,
          
           
             T
             is
             fit
             that
             those
             of
             worthy
             race
             and
             place
             ,
          
           
             Should
             be
             distinguisht
             from
             the
             Vulgar
             base
             .
          
           
             Perticulars
             Ile
             not
             to
             question
             call
             ,
          
           
             My
             Satyre
             is
             gainst
             Pride
             in
             generall
             .
          
           
             Soft
             Rayment
             is
             in
             Princes
             Courts
             allow'd
             ,
          
           
             Not
             that
             the
             wearers
             should
             thereof
             be
             proud
             ;
          
           
             For
             worth
             and
             wisdome
             knowes
             most
             certainely
             ,
          
           
             That
             Hell
             giues
             Pride
             ,
             and
             Heauen
             Humility
             ,
          
           
             And
             be
             their
             garments
             ne're
             so
             rare
             or
             rich
             ,
          
           
             They
             neuer
             can
             make
             Pride
             their
             hearts
             bewitch
             .
          
           
             Then
             if
             all
             sorts
             of
             men
             considred
             this
             ,
          
           
             Most
             vaine
             the
             pride
             of
             any
             rayment
             is
             ,
          
           
             For
             neither
             sea
             ,
             land
             ,
             fish
             ,
             fowle
             ,
             worme
             ,
             or
             beast
             ,
          
           
             But
             man's
             beholding
             to
             the
             most
             and
             least
             .
          
           
             The
             silly
             Sheepe
             puts
             off
             his
             coate
             each
             yeare
             ,
          
           
             And
             giues
             it
             to
             forgetfull
             man
             to
             weare
             :
          
           
           
             The
             Oxe
             ,
             Calfe
             ,
             Goate
             ,
             and
             Deere
             do
             not
             refuse
          
           
             To
             yeeld
             their
             skins
             ,
             to
             make
             him
             boots
             &
             shooes
             ,
          
           
             And
             the
             poore
             Silkworme
             labours
             night
             and
             day
          
           
             T'
             adorne
             and
             garnish
             man
             with
             rich
             array
             :
          
           
             Therefore
             if
             men
             of
             this
             did
             rightly
             thinke
             ,
          
           
             Humility
             would
             grow
             ,
             and
             Pride
             would
             shrinke
             .
          
           
             Fowles
             of
             the
             Ayre
             doe
             yeild
             both
             fans
             &
             plumes
          
           
             And
             a
             poore
             Ciuet
             Cat
             allowes
             perfumes
             .
          
           
             The
             Earth
             is
             rip'd
             and
             bowel'd
             rent
             and
             torne
             ,
          
           
             For
             Gold
             and
             siluer
             which
             by
             man
             is
             worne
             :
          
           
             And
             sea
             and
             land
             are
             rak'd
             ,
             and
             search'd
             &
             sought
             ,
          
           
             For
             Iewels
             too
             farre
             fetcht
             ,
             and
             too
             deare
             bought
             .
          
           
             Thus
             man's
             beholding
             still
             (
             to
             make
             him
             trim
             )
          
           
             Vnto
             all
             creatures
             ,
             and
             not
             they
             to
             him
             .
          
           
             Nature
             (
             without
             mans
             helpe
             )
             doth
             them
             supply
             ,
          
           
             And
             man
             without
             their
             help
             would
             straue
             and
             dic
             .
          
           
             If
             men
             (
             I
             say
             )
             these
             things
             considered
             well
             ,
          
           
             Pride
             then
             would
             soone
             be
             tumbled
             downe
             to
             hell
             .
          
           
             Their
             golden
             suits
             that
             make
             thē
             much
             renown'd
             ,
          
           
             Is
             but
             the
             guts
             and
             garbage
             of
             the
             Ground
             :
          
           
             Their
             Ciuet
             (
             that
             affords
             such
             dainty
             sents
             )
          
           
             Is
             but
             a
             poore
             Cats
             sweating
             Excrements
             ;
          
           
             Their
             rarest
             Iewels
             (
             which
             most
             glister
             forth
             )
          
           
             Are
             more
             for
             outward
             shew
             then
             inward
             worth
             ,
          
           
           
             They
             are
             high
             valu'd
             at
             all
             times
             ,
             and
             season
             ,
          
           
             But
             for
             what
             reason
             ,
             none
             can
             giue
             a
             reason
             ,
          
           
             The
             best
             of
             them
             ,
             like
             whoores
             ,
             haue
             euer
             bin
             ,
          
           
             Most
             faire
             without
             ,
             and
             full
             of
             bane
             within
             .
          
           
             And
             let
             a
             great
             man
             weare
             a
             peice
             of
             glasse
             ,
          
           
             It
             (
             for
             his
             sake
             )
             will
             for
             a
             Diamond
             passe
             ;
          
           
             But
             let
             a
             man
             that
             's
             of
             but
             meane
             degree
             ,
          
           
             Weare
             a
             faire
             Diamond
             ,
             yet
             it
             glasse
             must
             be
             .
          
           
             This
             valuing
             of
             a
             Iewell
             is
             most
             fit
             ,
          
           
             It
             should
             not
             grace
             a
             man
             ,
             man
             should
             grace
             it
             .
          
           
             A
             good
             man
             to
             his
             suit
             is
             a
             repute
             ,
          
           
             A
             knaues
             repute
             lyes
             onely
             in
             his
             sute
             .
          
           
             And
             for
             a
             stone
             ,
             that
             but
             3.
             drams
             hath
             weigh'd
             ,
          
           
             Of
             precious
             poyson
             ,
             hundreds
             haue
             bin
             payd
             .
          
           
             And
             who
             can
             tell
             how
             many
             liues
             were
             lost
             ,
          
           
             In
             fetching
             home
             the
             Bables
             of
             such
             cost
             ?
          
           
             (
             For
             many
             of
             them
             are
             as
             deerely
             bought
             .
          
           
             As
             if
             they
             from
             *
             Acheldama
             were
             brought
             .
             )
          
           
             Yet
             some
             rush
             through
             (
             fantasique
             pates
             to
             please
             )
          
           
             Rocks
             ,
             sands
             ,
             &
             change
             of
             aire
             ,
             rough
             winds
             &
             seas
          
           
             Storms
             ,
             tēpests
             ,
             gusts
             ,
             flawes
             ,
             pirates
             ,
             sword
             ,
             &
             fire
             ,
          
           
             Death
             ,
             or
             else
             slauery
             ,
             (
             neuer
             to
             retire
             .
             )
          
           
             And
             thus
             Prides
             various
             humours
             to
             suffice
             ,
          
           
             A
             number
             hazard
             these
             calamities
             .
          
           
           
             When
             our
             owne
             Country
             doth
             afford
             vs
             heere
             ,
          
           
             Iewells
             more
             precious
             ,
             nothing
             nigh
             so
             deere
             .
          
           
             A
             whetstone
             is
             more
             necessary
             sure
             ,
          
           
             A
             grindstone
             much
             more
             profit
             doth
             procure
             :
          
           
             But
             for
             a
             *
             milstone
             ,
             that
             's
             a
             Iewell
             rare
             ,
          
           
             With
             which
             no
             other
             stone
             can
             make
             compare
             .
          
           
             The
             loadstone
             is
             the
             meanes
             to
             find
             the
             rest
             ,
          
           
             But
             of
             all
             stones
             the
             milstone
             is
             the
             best
             .
          
           
             Free
             stones
             and
             artificiall
             bricks
             I
             graunt
             ,
          
           
             Are
             stones
             ,
             which
             men
             in
             building
             cannot
             want
             :
          
           
             And
             the
             flintstone
             can
             yeild
             vs
             fire
             and
             heate
             ,
          
           
             But
             yet
             the
             milstone
             yeilds
             vs
             bread
             to
             eate
             .
          
           
             The
             tilestone
             keepes
             vs
             dry
             ,
             the
             roadstone
             bydes
             ,
          
           
             And
             holds
             fast
             Boates
             ,
             in
             tempests
             ,
             winds
             ,
             &
             tides
             ,
          
           
             The
             chalkstone
             serues
             for
             lyme
             ,
             or
             for
             account
          
           
             To
             score
             ,
             how
             reck'nings
             doe
             abate
             or
             mount
             .
          
           
             Pebles
             ,
             and
             grauell
             ,
             mend
             high
             wayes
             I
             knowe
             ,
          
           
             And
             ballast
             shippes
             ,
             which
             else
             would
             ouerthrow
             .
          
           
             And
             this
             much
             I
             'le
             maintaine
             heere
             with
             my
             pen
             ,
          
           
             These
             are
             the
             stones
             that
             most
             doe
             profit
             men
             :
          
           
             These
             ,
             these
             are
             they
             ,
             if
             we
             consider
             well
             ,
          
           
             That
             Saphirs
             ,
             and
             the
             Diamonds
             doe
             excell
             ,
          
           
             The
             Pearl
             ,
             the
             Em'rauld
             ,
             and
             the
             Turkesse
             blew
             ,
          
           
             The
             sanguine
             Corrall
             ,
             Ambers
             golden
             hew
             ,
          
           
           
             The
             Christall
             ,
             Iacinth
             ,
             Achate
             ,
             Ruby
             red
             ,
          
           
             The
             Carbuncle
             ,
             Squar'd
             ,
             Cut
             ,
             and
             Pollished
             ,
          
           
             The
             Onix
             ,
             Topaz
             ,
             Iaspar
             ,
             Hematite
             ,
          
           
             The
             Sable
             Iet
             ,
             the
             Tutch
             ,
             and
             Chrysolite
             ;
          
           
             All
             these
             considred
             as
             they
             are
             indeed
             ,
          
           
             Are
             but
             vaine
             toyes
             that
             doth
             mans
             fancy
             feed
             ;
          
           
             The
             stones
             I
             nam'd
             before
             ,
             doe
             much
             more
             good
          
           
             For
             building
             ,
             sayling
             ,
             lodging
             ,
             firing
             ,
             food
             .
          
           
             Yet
             Iewels
             for
             their
             lawfull
             vse
             are
             sent
             ,
          
           
             To
             be
             a
             luster
             ,
             and
             an
             ornament
          
           
             For
             State
             ,
             magnificence
             ,
             and
             Princely
             port
             ,
          
           
             To
             shew
             a
             Kingdomes
             glory
             ,
             at
             the
             Court
             ;
          
           
             And
             God
             (
             I
             know
             )
             ordain'd
             them
             to
             be
             worne
             ,
          
           
             Superiour
             States
             to
             honour
             and
             adorne
             ,
          
           
             And
             for
             the
             vses
             they
             were
             made
             are
             good
             ,
          
           
             If
             (
             as
             they
             should
             be
             )
             they
             are
             vnderstood
             :
          
           
             T'
             adorne
             our
             persons
             they
             are
             still
             allow'd
             ,
          
           
             But
             not
             to
             buy
             too
             deare
             ,
             or
             make
             vs
             proud
             .
          
           
             The
             Holy
             Ghost
             in
             Exodus
             recites
             ,
          
           
             How
             Aaron
             (
             High
             Priest
             of
             the
             Israelites
             )
          
           
             Twelue
             seuerall
             stones
             did
             on
             his
             Brest-plate
             bear
             ,
          
           
             Which
             of
             the
             twelue
             Tribes
             a
             remembrance
             were
             ;
          
           
             But
             they
             were
             mysticall
             ,
             prophetique
             tropes
             ,
          
           
             And
             figures
             of
             Saluations
             future
             hopes
             .
          
           
           
             But
             God
             did
             neuer
             giue
             or
             Gold
             or
             Iemme
             ,
          
           
             Or
             Iewell
             ,
             that
             we
             should
             take
             pride
             in
             them
             .
          
           
             The
             Deu'll
             laugh'd
             lately
             at
             the
             stinking
             stir
             ,
          
           
             We
             had
             about
             *
             
               Hic
               Mulier
            
             ,
             and
             
               Haec
               ●ir
            
          
           
             The
             Masculine
             apparel'd
             Feminine
             ,
          
           
             And
             Feminine
             attired
             Masculine
             ,
          
           
             The
             Woman-man
             ,
             Man-woman
             ,
             chuse
             you
             whether
             ,
          
           
             The
             Female-male
             ,
             Male-female
             both
             ,
             yet
             neither
             ;
          
           
             Hels
             Pantomimicks
             that
             themselues
             bedights
             ,
          
           
             L●ke
             shamelesse
             double
             sex'd
             Hermophradites
             ,
          
           
             Virago
             Roaring
             Girles
             ,
             that
             to
             their
             middle
             ,
          
           
             To
             know
             what
             sexe
             they
             were
             ,
             was
             halfe
             a
             Riddle
             ,
          
           
             Braue
             trim'd
             &
             truss'd
             ,
             with
             daggers
             &
             with
             dags
             ,
          
           
             Stout
             Captaine
             Maudlins
             feather
             brauely
             wags
             ,
          
           
             Lieutenant
             *
             Dol
             ,
             and
             valiant
             Ensigne
             Besse
             ,
          
           
             All
             arm'd
             with
             impudence
             and
             shamelesnesse
             ;
          
           
             Whose
             Calues
             eg
             starch
             may
             in
             some
             sort
             be
             taken
          
           
             As
             if
             they
             had
             beene
             hang'd
             to
             smoke
             like
             Bacon
             ,
          
           
             Whose
             borrowed
             hayre
             (
             perhaps
             )
             not
             long
             before
          
           
             Drop'd
             from
             the
             head
             of
             some
             diseased
             Whore
             ,
          
           
             Or
             one
             that
             at
             the
             Gallowes
             made
             her
             Will
             ,
          
           
             Late
             choaked
             with
             the
             Hangmans
             Pickadill
             .
          
           
             In
             which
             respect
             ,
             a
             Sow
             ,
             a
             Cat
             ,
             a
             Mare
             ,
          
           
             More
             modest
             then
             these
             foolish
             Females
             are
             .
          
           
           
             For
             the
             bruit
             beasts
             (
             continuall
             night
             and
             day
             )
          
           
             Doe
             weare
             their
             owne
             still
             (
             and
             so
             doe
             not
             they
             .
             )
          
           
             But
             these
             things
             haue
             so
             well
             bin
             bang'd
             &
             firk'd
          
           
             And
             Epigram'd
             and
             Satyrd
             ,
             whip'd
             and
             Ierk'd
             ,
          
           
             Cudgeld
             and
             bastinadoed
             at
             the
             Court
             ,
          
           
             And
             Comically
             stag'de
             to
             make
             men
             sport
             ,
          
           
             lyg'd
             ,
             and
             (
             with
             all
             reason
             )
             mock'd
             in
             Rime
             ,
          
           
             And
             made
             the
             onely
             scornefull
             theame
             of
             Time
             ,
          
           
             And
             Balladmongers
             had
             so
             great
             a
             taske
             ,
          
           
             (
             As
             if
             their
             muses
             all
             had
             got
             the
             laske
             .
             )
          
           
             That
             no
             more
             time
             therein
             my
             paines
             I
             'le
             spend
             ,
          
           
             But
             freely
             leaue
             them
             to
             amend
             ,
             or
             end
             .
          
           
             I
             saw
             a
             fellow
             take
             a
             white
             loaues
             pith
             ,
          
           
             And
             rub
             his
             masters
             white
             shooes
             cleane
             therwith
          
           
             And
             I
             did
             know
             that
             fellow
             ,
             (
             for
             his
             pride
             )
          
           
             To
             want
             both
             bread
             and
             meate
             before
             he
             dy'de
             .
          
           
             Some
             I
             haue
             heard
             of
             ,
             that
             haue
             bin
             so
             fine
             ,
          
           
             To
             wash
             and
             bathe
             themselues
             in
             milke
             or
             wine
             ,
          
           
             Or
             else
             with
             whites
             of
             egges
             ,
             their
             faces
             garnish
             ,
          
           
             Which
             makes
             thē
             look
             like
             visors
             ,
             or
             new
             varnish
          
           
             Good
             bread
             ,
             and
             oatmeale
             hath
             bin
             spilt
             like
             trash
          
           
             My
             Lady
             polecats
             dainty
             hands
             to
             wash
             :
          
           
             Such
             there
             hath
             bin
             ,
             but
             now
             if
             such
             there
             are
             ,
          
           
             I
             wish
             that
             want
             of
             food
             may
             be
             their
             share
             .
          
           
           
             Some
             practise
             euery
             day
             the
             Painters
             trade
             ,
          
           
             And
             striue
             to
             mend
             the
             worke
             that
             God
             hath
             made
             .
          
           
             But
             these
             deceiuers
             are
             deceiued
             farre
             ,
          
           
             With
             falsly
             striuing
             to
             amend
             ,
             they
             marre
             :
          
           
             With
             deu'lish
             dawbing
             ,
             plast'ring
             they
             do
             spread
             ,
          
           
             Deforming
             so
             themselues
             with
             white
             and
             red
             ,
          
           
             The
             end
             of
             all
             their
             cunning
             that
             is
             showne
             ,
          
           
             ●s
             God
             will
             scarcely
             know
             them
             for
             his
             owne
             .
          
           
             ●n
             a
             great
             frost
             ,
             bare
             breasted
             ,
             and
             vnlac't
             ,
          
           
             I
             haue
             seene
             some
             as
             low
             as
             to
             their
             wast
             :
          
           
             One
             halfe
             attyr'd
             ,
             the
             other
             halfe
             starke
             bare
             ,
          
           
             Shewes
             that
             they
             halfe
             asham'd
             ,
             halfe
             shameles
             are
             ,
          
           
             Halfe
             ,
             (
             or
             else
             all
             )
             from
             what
             they
             should
             be
             erring
             ,
          
           
             And
             neither
             fish
             or
             flesh
             ,
             nor
             good
             red
             herring
             .
          
           
             I
             blow'd
             my
             nailes
             when
             I
             did
             them
             behold
             ,
          
           
             And
             yet
             that
             naked
             Pride
             would
             feele
             no
             cold
             .
          
           
             Some
             euery
             day
             doe
             powder
             so
             their
             haire
             ,
          
           
             That
             they
             like
             Ghosts
             ,
             or
             Millers
             doc
             appeare
             :
          
           
             But
             let
             them
             powder
             all
             that
             er'e
             they
             can
             ,
          
           
             Their
             Pride
             will
             stinke
             before
             both
             God
             &
             man.
          
           
             Ther
             was
             a
             trades
             mans
             wife
             ,
             which
             I
             could
             name
          
           
             (
             But
             that
             I
             'le
             not
             divulge
             abroad
             her
             shame
             )
          
           
             Which
             a
             strong
             legion
             of
             good
             garments
             wore
             ,
          
           
             As
             gownes
             and
             petticoates
             ,
             and
             kirtles
             store
             .
          
           
           
             Smocks
             ,
             headtires
             ,
             aprones
             ,
             shadowes
             ,
             shaparoons
          
           
             (
             Whimwhams
             ,
             &
             whirligiggs
             to
             please
             Baboones
          
           
             Iewels
             ,
             rings
             ,
             ooches
             ,
             brooches
             ,
             bracelets
             ,
             chaines
          
           
             (
             More
             then
             too
             much
             to
             fit
             her
             idle
             braines
             )
          
           
             (
             Besides
             ,
             she
             payd
             (
             not
             counting
             muffes
             &
             ruffs
             )
          
           
             Foure
             pounds
             sixe
             shillings
             for
             two
             paire
             of
             cuffs
          
           
             T
             will
             make
             a
             man
             half
             mad
             ,
             such
             worms
             as
             those
          
           
             The
             generall
             gifts
             of
             God
             should
             thus
             ingrosse
             .
          
           
             And
             that
             such
             numbers
             want
             their
             needfull
             vse
             ,
          
           
             Whilst
             hellish
             Pride
             peruerts
             them
             to
             abuse
             .
          
           
             Now
             a
             few
             lines
             to
             paper
             I
             will
             put
             ,
          
           
             Of
             mens
             Beards
             strange
             and
             variable
             cut
             :
          
           
             In
             which
             ther
             's
             some
             doe
             take
             as
             vaine
             a
             Pride
             ,
          
           
             As
             almost
             in
             all
             other
             things
             beside
             .
          
           
             Some
             are
             reap'd
             most
             substantiall
             ,
             like
             a
             brush
             ,
          
           
             Which
             makes
             a
             Nat'rall
             wit
             knowne
             by
             the
             bush
          
           
             (
             And
             in
             my
             time
             of
             some
             men
             I
             haue
             heard
             ,
          
           
             Whose
             wisedome
             haue
             bin
             onely
             wealth
             &
             beard
          
           
             Many
             of
             these
             the
             prouerbe
             well
             doth
             fit
             ,
          
           
             Which
             saies
             Bush
             naturall
             ,
             more
             haire
             then
             wit.
          
           
             Some
             seeme
             as
             they
             were
             starched
             stiffe
             and
             fine
          
           
             Like
             to
             the
             bristles
             of
             some
             angry
             swine
             :
          
           
             And
             some
             (
             to
             set
             their
             loues
             desire
             on
             edge
             )
          
           
             Are
             cut
             and
             prun'de
             like
             to
             a
             quickset
             hedge
             .
          
           
           
             Some
             like
             a
             spade
             ,
             some
             like
             a
             forke
             ,
             some
             square
             ,
          
           
             Some
             round
             ,
             some
             mow'd
             like
             stuble
             ,
             some
             starke
             bare
             ,
          
           
             Some
             sharpe
             Steletto
             fashion
             ,
             dagger
             like
             ,
          
           
             That
             may
             with
             whispering
             a
             mans
             eyes
             out
             pike
             ;
          
           
             Some
             with
             the
             hammer
             cut
             ,
             or
             Romane
             T
             ,
          
           
             Their
             beards
             extrauagant
             reform'd
             must
             be
             ,
          
           
             Some
             with
             the
             quadrate
             ,
             some
             triangle
             fashion
             ,
          
           
             Some
             circular
             ,
             some
             ouall
             in
             translation
             ,
          
           
             Some
             perpendicular
             in
             longitude
             ,
          
           
             Some
             like
             a
             thicket
             for
             their
             crassitude
             ,
          
           
             That
             heights
             ,
             depths
             ,
             bredths
             ,
             triform
             ,
             square
             ,
             oual
             ,
             round
             ,
          
           
             And
             rules
             Geo'metricall
             in
             beards
             are
             found
             ,
          
           
             Besides
             the
             vpper
             lip
             's
             strange
             variation
             ,
          
           
             Corrected
             from
             mutation
             to
             mutation
             ;
          
           
             As
             't
             were
             from
             tithing
             vnto
             tithing
             sent
             ,
          
           
             Pride
             giues
             to
             pride
             continuall
             punishment
             .
          
           
             Sōe
             (
             
               spite
               their
               teeth
            
             )
             like
             thatch'd
             eues
             downward
             grows
          
           
             And
             some
             growes
             vpwards
             in
             despite
             their
             nose
             .
          
           
             Some
             their
             mustatioes
             of
             such
             length
             do
             keepe
             ,
          
           
             That
             very
             well
             they
             may
             a
             maunger
             sweepe
             :
          
           
             Which
             in
             beere
             ,
             ale
             or
             wine
             they
             drinking
             plunge
             ,
          
           
             And
             sucke
             the
             liquor
             vp
             ,
             as
             't
             t
             were
             a
             Spunge
             ;
          
           
             But
             t
             is
             a
             Slouens
             beastly
             Pride
             ,
             I
             thinke
             ,
          
           
             To
             wash
             his
             beard
             where
             other
             men
             must
             drinke
             .
          
           
           
             And
             some
             (
             because
             they
             will
             not
             rob
             the
             cup
             ,
          
           
             Their
             vpper
             chaps
             like
             pot
             hookes
             are
             turn'd
             vp
             ,
          
           
             The
             Barbers
             thus
             (
             like
             Taylers
             )
             still
             must
             be
             ,
          
           
             Acquainted
             with
             each
             cuts
             variety
             :
          
           
             Yet
             though
             with
             beards
             thus
             merrily
             I
             play
             ,
          
           
             T
             is
             onely
             against
             Pride
             which
             I
             inueigh
             :
          
           
             For
             let
             men
             weare
             their
             hayre
             or
             their
             attire
          
           
             According
             as
             their
             states
             or
             minds
             desire
             ,
          
           
             So
             as
             no
             puff'd
             vp
             Pride
             their
             hearts
             possesse
             ,
          
           
             And
             they
             vse
             Gods
             good
             gifts
             with
             thankfulnesse
             .
          
           
             There
             's
             many
             an
             idle
             shallow
             pated
             Gull
             ,
          
           
             Thinks
             his
             owne
             wisedome
             to
             be
             wonderfull
             :
             
          
           
             And
             that
             the
             State
             themselues
             doe
             much
             forget
             ,
          
           
             Because
             he
             in
             authoritie's
             not
             set
             :
          
           
             And
             hauing
             scarely
             wit
             to
             rule
             a
             Cottage
             ,
          
           
             Thinks
             he
             could
             guid
             a
             kingdom
             with
             his
             dotage
             .
          
           
             True
             wisdome
             is
             mans
             onely
             guide
             and
             guard
             ,
          
           
             To
             liue
             here
             ,
             to
             liue
             better
             afterward
             .
          
           
             It
             is
             a
             rich
             mans
             chiefe
             preheminence
             ,
          
           
             And
             t
             is
             a
             poore
             mans
             stay
             ,
             and
             best
             defence
             .
          
           
             But
             worldly
             wisdome
             is
             the
             ground
             of
             all
          
           
             The
             mischiefes
             that
             to
             man
             did
             euer
             fall
             .
          
           
             Gods
             wisedome
             is
             within
             the
             Gospel
             hid
             ,
          
           
             Which
             we
             to*
             search
             ,
             are
             by
             our
             Sauiour
             bid
             .
             
          
           
           
             Thus
             Pride
             of
             humane
             wisedome
             is
             all
             vaine
             ,
          
           
             And
             foolish
             fancies
             of
             mans
             idle
             braine
             .
          
           
             Pride
             of
             our
             knowledge
             ,
             we
             away
             must
             throwe
             
          
           
             For
             he
             knowes
             most
             ,
             which
             least
             doth
             seeme
             to
             knowe
          
           
             One
             Apple
             from
             the
             tree
             of
             life
             is
             more
             ,
          
           
             Then
             from
             the
             tree
             of
             knowledge
             halfe
             a
             score
             ;
          
           
             T
             is
             good
             for
             vs
             to
             know
             our
             Maisters
             will
             ,
          
           
             But
             the
             not
             doing
             it
             ,
             makes
             knowledge
             ill
             .
          
           
             Ther
             's
             many
             know
             ,
             the
             Iust
             in
             heau'n
             shall
             dwell
             ,
          
           
             Yet
             they
             vniustly
             runne
             the
             way
             to
             hell
             .
          
           
             The
             life
             Eternall
             no
             way
             can
             be
             wonne
             ,
          
           
             But
             to
             know
             God
             ,
             and
             *
             
               Iesus
               Christ
            
             his
             Sonne
             .
          
           
             Christ
             ,
             (
             to
             his
             people
             )
             by
             his
             word
             and
             passion
             ,
          
           
             Taught
             men
             the
             ioyfull
             *
             knowledge
             of
             saluation
             .
          
           
             I
             rather
             had
             by
             knowledge
             ,
             raise
             my
             chance
             ,
          
           
             Then
             to
             be
             poore
             with
             barb
             rous
             ignorance
             ;
          
           
             Yet
             better
             t'
             were
             I
             nothing
             vnderstood
             ,
          
           
             Then
             to
             know
             goodnes
             ,
             and
             to
             doe
             no
             good
             .
          
           
             Thus
             knowledge
             ,
             worthy
             is
             of
             dignity
             ,
          
           
             But
             not
             to
             make
             the
             knowers
             proud
             thereby
             .
          
           
             For
             if
             men
             would
             ,
             to
             know
             themselues
             endeuer
             ,
          
           
             Pride
             of
             their
             knowledge
             would
             infect
             thē
             neuer
             .
          
           
             Pride
             of
             our
             riches
             is
             a
             painefull
             pleasure
             ,
          
           
             Like
             sumpter
             horses
             laden
             with
             rich
             treasure
             ,
             
          
           
           
             So
             Misers
             beare
             their
             wealth
             as
             they
             are
             able
             ,
          
           
             Till
             Death
             the
             hostler
             makes
             the
             graue
             their
             stable
             .
          
           
             There
             's
             some
             take
             pride
             in
             treasure
             basely
             got
             ,
          
           
             Haue
             it
             ,
             yet
             want
             it
             ,
             as
             they
             had
             it
             not
             ;
          
           
             And
             though
             to
             get
             it
             ,
             no
             vile
             meanes
             they
             spare
             ,
          
           
             To
             spend
             it
             on
             themselues
             they
             seldome
             dare
             ;
          
           
             How
             can
             a
             base
             extortionizing
             Bore
             ,
          
           
             Get
             riches
             ill
             ,
             and
             giue
             God
             thanks
             therefore
             ?
          
           
             T
             is
             all
             one
             ,
             if
             a
             theife
             ,
             a
             baude
             ,
             a
             witch
             ,
          
           
             Or
             a
             Bribe
             taker
             should
             grow
             damned
             rich
             ,
          
           
             And
             for
             their
             trash
             ,
             got
             with
             their
             hellish
             pranks
             ,
          
           
             The
             hypocriticke
             slaues
             will
             giue
             God
             thanks
             .
          
           
             No
             let
             the
             litter
             of
             such
             whelpes
             ,
          
           
             Giue
             thanks
             to
             th'Deuill
             (
             author
             of
             their
             helpes
             )
          
           
             To
             giue
             God
             thanks
             ,
             it
             is
             almost
             all
             one
             ,
          
           
             To
             make
             him
             partner
             in
             extortion
             .
          
           
             Thus
             if
             men
             get
             their
             wealth
             by
             meanes
             that
             's
             euil
             ,
          
           
             Let
             them
             not
             giue
             God
             thanks
             ,
             but
             thank
             the
             deuil
             .
          
           
             Yet
             wealth
             the
             gift
             of
             God
             hath
             euer
             bin
             ,
          
           
             But
             not
             such
             wealth
             that
             's
             onely
             got
             by
             sinne
             ;
          
           
             Nor
             any
             wealth
             if
             men
             take
             pride
             therein
             .
          
           
             And
             those
             who
             put
             their
             foolish
             confidence
          
           
             In
             Riches
             ,
             trusting
             to
             their
             false
             defence
             ;
          
           
             Those
             that
             with
             Mammon
             are
             bewitched
             so
             ,
          
           
           
             Our
             Sauiour'gainst
             them
             threats
             a
             fearefull
             *
             Woe
             .
          
           
             Humility
             with
             Riches
             may
             be
             blest
             ,
          
           
             But
             Pride
             's
             a
             poyson
             God
             doth
             still
             detest
             .
          
           
             Pride
             of
             our
             Learning
             's
             vaine
             ,
             it
             doth
             appeare
             ,
             
          
           
             For
             though
             men
             study
             many
             a
             weary
             yeare
             ,
          
           
             And
             learn'd
             as
             much
             ,
             as
             possibly
             the
             braine
             ,
          
           
             Or
             scope
             of
             mans
             Inuentions
             may
             attaine
             ,
          
           
             Yet
             after
             all
             their
             studies
             ,
             truth
             doth
             show
             ,
          
           
             Much
             more
             is
             what
             they
             know
             not
             ,
             then
             they
             know
             ,
          
           
             To
             learne
             by
             bad
             mens
             vices
             ,
             vice
             to
             shunne
             ,
          
           
             By
             good
             mens
             good
             ,
             what
             should
             by
             vs
             be
             done
             ,
          
           
             This
             is
             the
             learning
             we
             should
             practise
             most
             ,
          
           
             Not
             to
             be
             proud
             thereof
             ,
             or
             vainely
             boast
             .
          
           
             A
             Princes
             fauour
             is
             a
             precious
             thing
             ,
             
          
           
             Yet
             it
             doth
             many
             vnto
             ruine
             bring
             ;
          
           
             Because
             the
             hauers
             of
             it
             proudly
             vse
             it
             ,
          
           
             And
             (
             to
             their
             owne
             ambitious
             ends
             )
             abuse
             it
             .
          
           
             If
             men
             that
             are
             so
             stately
             and
             so
             strange
             ,
          
           
             Would
             but
             remember
             how
             time
             oft
             doth
             change
             ,
          
           
             And
             note
             how
             some
             in
             former
             times
             did
             spread
             ,
          
           
             By
             their
             examples
             they
             would
             take
             some
             heed
             ,
             
          
           
             For
             as
             a
             cart
             wheele
             in
             the
             way
             goes
             round
             ,
          
           
             The
             Spoak
             that
             's
             high'st
             is
             quickly
             at
             the
             ground
             ,
          
           
             So
             Enuy
             ,
             or
             iust
             cause
             ,
             or
             misconceit
             ,
          
           
           
             In
             Princes
             Courts
             ,
             continually
             doe
             waite
             ,
          
           
             That
             he
             that
             is
             this
             day
             Magnifico
          
           
             To
             morrow
             may
             goe
             by
             ●●eronimo
          
           
             The
             spoakes
             that
             now
             are
             highest
             in
             the
             wheeles
             ,
          
           
             Are
             in
             a
             moment
             lowest
             by
             the
             heeles
             .
          
           
             Haman
             was
             proud
             ,
             past
             reasons
             bounds
             or
             scope
             ,
          
           
             And
             his
             vainglory
             ended
             in
             a
             rope
             ,
          
           
             And
             his
             ten
             sounes
             ,
             in
             duty
             to
             obay
          
           
             Their
             father
             ,
             followed
             him
             the
             selfe
             same
             way
             .
          
           
             Those
             men
             that
             harbour
             Pride
             within
             their
             brest
             ,
          
           
             Doe
             seldome
             end
             their
             daies
             in
             peace
             and
             rest
             .
          
           
             But
             if
             they
             doe
             ,
             disgrace
             and
             shame
             withall
             ,
          
           
             Are
             the
             chiefe
             waiters
             on
             their
             funerall
             .
          
           
             Where
             honor
             is
             with
             noble
             vertue
             mix'd
             ,
          
           
             It
             like
             a
             Rocke
             stands
             permanent
             and
             fix'd
             ,
          
           
             The
             snares
             of
             enuy
             ,
             or
             the
             traps
             of
             hate
          
           
             Could
             neuer
             ,
             nor
             shall
             euer
             hurt
             that
             state
             :
          
           
             Like
             Adamant
             it
             doth
             beat
             backe
             the
             battry
             ,
          
           
             Of
             spitefull
             malice
             ,
             and
             deceiuing
             flattry
             ,
          
           
             For
             it
             with
             Pride
             can
             neuer
             be
             infected
             ,
          
           
             But
             humbly
             is
             supernally
             protected
             ,
          
           
             Such
             with
             their
             Kings
             shall
             euer
             be
             belou'd
             ,
          
           
             And
             like
             to
             fixed
             starres
             ,
             stand
             fast
             ,
             vnmou'd
             .
             
          
           
             Those
             that
             are
             proud
             of
             beauty
             ,
             let
             them
             know
             ,
          
           
           
             Their
             Pride
             is
             but
             a
             fickle
             ,
             fading
             showe
             .
          
           
             A
             smoake
             ,
             a
             bubble
             ,
             a
             time-tosted
             toy
             ,
          
           
             A
             Luna
             like
             ,
             sraile
             ,
             euer
             changing
             ioy
             .
          
           
             For
             as
             a
             tide
             of
             flood
             ,
             slow'd
             to
             the
             height
             ,
          
           
             Do●h
             (
             in
             a
             moment
             )
             fall
             to
             ebbing
             straight
             :
          
           
             So
             beauty
             ,
             when
             it
             is
             most
             faire
             and
             fine
             ,
          
           
             (
             Like
             new
             pluck'd
             flowers
             )
             doth
             presently
             decline
             .
          
           
             That
             man
             or
             womans
             vertue
             doth
             excell
             ,
          
           
             If
             with
             their
             beauty
             chastity
             doth
             dwell
             :
          
           
             But
             Pride
             of
             beauty
             is
             a
             marke
             most
             sure
             ,
          
           
             That
             th'owners
             of
             it
             ,
             vse
             it
             to
             procure
          
           
             The
             Paphian
             pastime
             ,
             and
             the
             Cyprian
             game
             ,
          
           
             The
             sports
             of
             Venus
             ,
             and
             the
             acts
             of
             shame
             ,
          
           
             To
             breede
             the
             heat
             of
             Cupids
             lustfull
             flame
             .
          
           
             Oft
             beauty
             hath
             faire
             chastity
             displac'd
             ,
          
           
             But
             chastity
             ,
             hath
             beauty
             euer
             grac'd
             .
          
           
             For
             't
             is
             a
             Maxime
             ,
             those
             haue
             euer
             bin
             ,
          
           
             That
             are
             most
             faire
             without
             ,
             most
             fowle
             within
             .
          
           
             Too
             oft
             hath
             beauty
             ,
             by
             disloyalty
             ,
          
           
             Branded
             it selfe
             with
             lasting
             infamy
             ,
          
           
             That
             one
             fraile
             creature
             ,
             (
             nobly
             will
             descended
             )
          
           
             (
             Proud
             of
             her
             fairenes
             )
             fowly
             hath
             offended
             ,
          
           
             And
             on
             her
             honse
             and
             kindred
             ,
             laid
             a
             blot
             ,
          
           
             That
             the
             dishonor
             ne're
             will
             be
             forgot
             .
          
           
           
             But
             a
             faire
             feature
             vertuously
             :
             nclin'd
             ,
          
           
             A
             beauteous
             outside
             ,
             and
             a
             pious
             mind
             ,
          
           
             Such
             are
             Gods
             Images
             Epitomies
             ,
          
           
             And
             Cabinets
             of
             heanens
             blest
             treasuries
             :
          
           
             And
             therefore
             be
             thy
             feature
             ,
             faire
             or
             foule
             ,
          
           
             Let
             inward
             vertues
             beautifie
             the
             soule
             .
          
           
             Pride
             of
             our
             strength
             ,
             shewes
             weaknesse
             in
             our
             wit
             ,
             
          
           
             Because
             the
             Chollicke
             ,
             or
             an
             Ague
             fit
             ,
          
           
             The
             tooth-ach
             ,
             or
             the
             pricking
             of
             a
             pin
             ,
          
           
             Oft
             lets
             the
             strength
             out
             ,
             and
             the
             weaknesse
             in
             .
          
           
             The
             Tribe
             of
             Dans
             great
             glory
             ,
             *
             Sampsons
             strength
             
          
           
             By
             a
             weake
             woman
             was
             orethrowne
             at
             length
             .
          
           
             And
             sure
             there
             's
             many
             do
             themselues
             much
             wrong
          
           
             In
             being
             proud
             because
             they
             are
             made
             strong
             ,
          
           
             For
             a
             great
             number
             liuing
             now
             there
             are
             ,
          
           
             Can
             wrastle
             ,
             throw
             the
             sledge
             ,
             or
             pitch
             the
             barre
             ,
          
           
             That
             on
             their
             backs
             foure
             hūdred
             waight
             can
             bear
          
           
             And
             horse
             shooes
             (
             with
             their
             fifts
             )
             in
             sunder
             teare
             ,
          
           
             Yet
             neuer
             vse
             their
             strength
             in
             any
             thing
             ,
          
           
             To
             serue
             their
             God
             ,
             their
             country
             ,
             or
             their
             King.
          
           
             But
             with
             outragious
             acts
             their
             liues
             pursue
             ,
          
           
             As
             if
             God
             gaue
             them
             strength
             but
             as
             their
             due
             ,
          
           
             As
             though
             they
             like
             the
             Gyants
             could
             remoue
             ,
          
           
             And
             hurle
             great
             mountaines
             at
             the
             head
             of
             Ioue
             ,
          
           
           
             Or
             like
             Gargantua
             ,
             or
             Polipheme
             ,
          
           
             Or
             Gogmagog
             ,
             their
             boystrous
             fancies
             dreame
             ,
          
           
             That
             they
             more
             wonders
             by
             thier
             strength
             can
             do
             ,
          
           
             Then
             Hercules
             could
             e're
             attaine
             vnto
             .
          
           
             Let
             those
             Goliahs
             ,
             that
             in
             strength
             take
             pride
             ,
          
           
             Know
             that
             the
             Lord
             of
             Hostes
             doth
             them
             deride
             ,
          
           
             And
             what
             they
             are
             (
             that
             proudly
             brag
             and
             swell
          
           
             Of
             strength
             )
             let
             any
             man
             but
             note
             them
             well
             ,
          
           
             If
             hurt
             or
             sicknesse
             make
             their
             strength
             decay
             ,
          
           
             A
             man
             shall
             neuer
             see
             such
             Cowes
             as
             they
             .
          
           
             Be'ng
             strong
             ,
             their
             minds
             on
             God
             they
             neuer
             set
             ;
          
           
             In
             weaknesse
             ,
             instly
             he
             doth
             them
             forget
             :
          
           
             Strength
             ,
             thus
             like
             headstrong
             lades
             they
             do
             abuse
             it
             ,
          
           
             For
             want
             of
             Reasons
             bridle
             how
             to
             vse
             it
             .
          
           
             Pride
             of
             our
             children's
             vaine
             ;
             our
             proper
             stem
             
          
           
             Must
             either
             dye
             from
             vs
             ,
             or
             we
             from
             them
             .
          
           
             If
             our
             examples
             of
             the
             life
             we
             liue
          
           
             Inrich
             them
             not
             more
             then
             the
             gifts
             we
             giue
             ,
          
           
             If
             (
             disobedient
             )
             they
             despise
             mstruction
             ,
          
           
             And
             will
             peruersly
             runne
             into
             destruction
             ;
          
           
             Much
             better
             had
             it
             bin
             ,
             we
             had
             not
             bin
          
           
             Begetters
             of
             such
             Imps
             of
             shame
             and
             sinne
             .
          
           
             Children
             no
             duty
             to
             such
             Parents
             owe
             ,
          
           
             Who
             suffer
             vice
             their
             youth
             to
             ouergrow
             ,
          
           
           
             Neglect
             to
             teach
             thy
             sonne
             in
             younger
             yeeres
             ,
          
           
             He
             shall
             reiect
             thee
             in
             thy
             hoary
             haires
             ,
          
           
             The
             way
             to
             make
             our
             children
             vs
             obay
             ,
          
           
             Is
             that
             our selues
             from
             God
             runne
             not
             astray
             ,
          
           
             Such
             measure
             to
             our
             maker
             as
             we
             mete
             ,
          
           
             T
             is
             just
             ,
             that
             such
             ,
             we
             from
             our
             children
             get
             .
          
           
             Th'
             Apostle
             Paul
             exhorteth
             more
             and
             lesse
             ,
          
           
             To
             be
             all
             children
             in̄
             maliciousnes
             :
          
           
             That
             is
             to
             say
             ,
             as
             children
             harmeles
             be
             ,
          
           
             So
             we
             should
             from
             maliciousnes
             be
             free
             .
          
           
             Thus
             Pride
             of
             birth
             ,
             apparell
             ,
             wealth
             ,
             strength
             ,
             state
             ,
          
           
             And
             Pride
             of
             humane
             wisedome
             God
             doth
             hate
             :
          
           
             Of
             knowledge
             ,
             learning
             ,
             beauty
             ,
             children
             and
          
           
             The
             Pride
             of
             Princes
             fauour
             cannot
             stand
             .
          
           
             And
             Pride
             in
             any
             thing
             shall
             euermore
             ,
          
           
             Be
             bar'd
             and
             shut
             from
             heau'ns
             Eternall
             doore
             ,
          
           
             For
             whosoeuer
             will
             beleeve
             and
             looke
             ,
          
           
             Shall
             find
             examples
             in
             the
             sacred
             booke
             :
          
           
             That
             God
             hath
             euer'gainst
             the
             proud
             withstood
             ,
          
           
             And
             that
             
               a
               proud
               heart
               neuer
            
             came
             to
             good
             .
          
           
             He
             saith
             Pride
             is*
             destruction
             ,
             and
             agen
             
          
           
             That
             Pride
             is*
             hatefull
             before
             God
             and
             men
             :
          
           
             How
             Prides
             beginning
             is
             from
             God
             to
             fall
             ,
             
          
           
             And
             of
             all
             sinne
             is
             the*
             originall
             .
          
           
           
             Who
             taketh
             hold
             on
             Pride
             ,
             in
             great
             affliction
          
           
             Shall
             be
             o'rethrowne
             ,
             fild
             with
             Gods
             malediction
             .
          
           
             Pride
             was
             not
             made
             for
             man
             ,
             man
             hath
             no
             part
          
           
             In
             Pride
             ,
             for
             God
             a
             abhorreth
             a
             proud
             heart
             ,
          
           
             And
             '
             t
             is
             decreed
             by
             the
             Almighties
             doome
             ,
          
           
             That
             Pride
             vnto
             a
             fearefull
             fall
             shall
             come
             .
          
           
             A
             person
             that
             is
             proud
             ,
             ne're
             pleas'd
             God
             yet
             :
          
           
             For
             how
             can
             they
             please
             him
             whom
             they
             forget
             ?
          
           
             Yet
             as
             before
             I
             said
             ,
             againe
             I
             le
             say
             ,
          
           
             That
             Pride
             to
             such
             a
             height
             is
             growne
             this
             day
             :
          
           
             That
             many
             a
             thousand
             thousand
             familie
             ,
          
           
             Wer
             't
             not
             for
             Pride
             would
             begge
             ,
             or
             starue
             and
             dy
             .
          
           
             And
             the
             most
             part
             of
             them
             are
             men
             of
             might
             ,
          
           
             Who
             in
             Prides
             quarrel
             will
             both
             speake
             and
             fight
             :
          
           
             I
             therefore
             haue
             no
             hope
             to
             put
             her
             downe
             ,
          
           
             But
             Satyre-like
             ,
             to
             tell
             her
             of
             her
             owne
             .
          
           
             There
             is
             another
             Pride
             which
             I
             must
             touch
             ,
          
           
             It
             is
             so
             bad
             ,
             so
             base
             ,
             so
             too
             too
             much
             :
          
           
             b
             Which
             is
             ,
             if
             any
             mans
             good
             fortune
             be
             ,
          
           
             To
             rise
             to
             Honorable
             dignitie
             ,
          
           
             Or
             through
             infirmity
             ,
             or
             wilfulnes
             ,
          
           
             Men
             fall
             vnhappily
             into
             distresse
             .
          
           
             That
             Libellers
             doe
             spirt
             their
             wits
             like
             froth
             ,
          
           
             To
             raile
             at
             Honor
             ,
             and
             dishonor
             both
             .
          
           
           
             These
             Mungrell
             whelpes
             are
             euer
             snarling
             still
             ,
          
           
             Hating
             mens
             goodnesse
             ,
             glorying
             in
             their
             ill
             ,
          
           
             Like
             bloud-hound
             Curs
             they
             daily
             hunt
             and
             sent
             ,
          
           
             And
             rime
             and
             Iigge
             on
             others
             detriment
             :
          
           
             Supposing
             it
             a
             very
             vertuous
             thing
             ,
          
           
             To
             be
             an
             arrant
             Knaue
             in
             libelling
             .
          
           
             Forsooth
             these
             Screech-owles
             would
             be
             cal'd
             the
             wits
             ,
          
           
             Whose
             flashes
             flye
             abroad
             by
             girds
             and
             fits
             :
          
           
             Who
             doe
             their
             mangy
             Muses
             magnifie
             :
          
           
             Making
             their
             sport
             of
             mens
             calamity
             ,
          
           
             But
             yet
             for
             all
             their
             hatefull
             hellish
             mirth
             ,
          
           
             They
             are
             the
             vilest
             cowards
             on
             the
             earth
             :
          
           
             For
             there
             's
             not
             one
             that
             doth
             a
             libell
             frame
             ,
          
           
             Dares
             for
             his
             eares
             subscribe
             to
             it
             his
             name
             .
          
           
             T
             is
             a
             base
             bruitish
             pride
             to
             take
             a
             pen
             ,
          
           
             And
             libell
             on
             the
             miseries
             of
             men
             ;
          
           
             For
             why
             all
             men
             are
             mortall
             ,
             weake
             and
             fraile
             ,
          
           
             And
             all
             ,
             from
             what
             they
             should
             be
             fall
             and
             faile
             .
          
           
             And
             therefore
             men
             should
             in
             these
             slip'ry
             times
          
           
             Bewaile
             mens
             miseries
             ,
             and
             hate
             their
             crimes
             :
          
           
             Let
             him
             that
             stands
             take
             heed
             he
             doth
             not
             fall
             ,
          
           
             And
             not
             reioyce
             in
             mens
             mishaps
             at
             all
             .
          
           
             It
             is
             too
             much
             for
             Libellers
             to
             meddle
             ,
          
           
             To
             make
             their
             Muse
             a
             Hangman
             or
             a
             Beadle
             :
          
           
           
             At
             mens
             misfortunes
             to
             deride
             and
             iest
             ,
          
           
             To
             adde
             distresse
             to
             those
             that
             are
             distrest
             .
          
           
             As
             I
             doe
             hold
             mens
             vices
             to
             be
             vile
             ,
          
           
             So
             at
             their
             miseries
             I
             le
             neuer
             smile
             ,
          
           
             And
             in
             a
             word
             (
             lest
             tediousnesse
             offend
             )
          
           
             Alibeller's
             a
             Knaue
             ,
             and
             there
             's
             an
             end
             .
          
           
             Thus
             hauing
             of
             Prides
             various
             formes
             related
          
           
             And
             how
             of
             God
             ,
             and
             good
             men
             it
             is
             hated
             :
          
           
             I
             thinke
             it
             fit
             some
             Lines
             in
             praise
             to
             write
             ,
          
           
             Of
             Vertues
             which
             to
             Pride
             are
             opposite
             .
          
           
             For
             vice
             with
             shew
             of
             Vertue
             blindes
             the
             eye
             ,
          
           
             And
             Vertue
             makes
             vice
             knowne
             apparantly
             .
          
           
             When
             falsehood
             is
             examin'd
             and
             compar'd
          
           
             With
             Truth
             ,
             it
             makes
             truth
             haue
             the
             more
             regard
             .
          
           
             The
             Crow
             seemes
             blackest
             when
             the
             Swan
             stands
             near
          
           
             And
             goodnes
             makes
             the
             ill
             most
             bad
             appear
             :
          
           
             So
             vertues
             that
             are
             contrary
             to
             vices
             ,
          
           
             Make
             them
             contemptible
             ,
             and
             base
             in
             prices
             :
          
           
             Humility
             ,
             if
             it
             be
             well
             embrac'd
             ,
             
          
           
             It
             makes
             disdainfull
             Pride
             ,
             disdain'd
             ,
             disgrac'd
             :
          
           
             Humility
             is
             a
             most
             heauenly
             gift
             ,
          
           
             The
             Stayre
             that
             doth
             (
             to
             Glory
             )
             men
             vp
             lift
             .
          
           
             None
             but
             the
             meeke
             and
             lowly
             humbled
             spirit
          
           
             Shall
             true
             eternall
             happinesse
             inherit
             :
          
           
           
             Those
             that
             are
             humble
             honour
             *
             God
             alwaies
             ,
          
           
             And
             onely
             those
             will
             he
             to
             honor
             raise
             .
          
           
             If
             thou
             bee'st
             great
             in
             state
             ,
             giue
             thankes
             therefore
          
           
             And
             humble
             still
             thy selfe
             ,
             so
             much
             the
             more
             .
          
           
             He
             that
             is
             humble
             ,
             loues
             his
             Christian
             brother
             ,
          
           
             And
             thinkes
             himselfe
             *
             inferiour
             to
             all
             other
             ;
          
           
             Those
             that
             are
             meeke
             the
             Lord
             shall
             euer
             guide
             ,
          
           
             And
             *
             teach
             them
             in
             his
             wayes
             still
             to
             abide
             .
          
           
             For
             though
             the
             Lord
             be
             high
             ,
             he
             hath
             respect
          
           
             Vnto
             the
             *
             lowly
             ,
             whom
             he
             will
             protect
             .
          
           
             Humility
             ,
             and
             lowlinesse
             goes
             on
             ,
          
           
             Still
             before
             honour
             ,
             (
             as
             saith
             Solomon
             )
          
           
             He
             that
             is
             humble
             heere
             and
             free
             from
             strife
             ,
          
           
             Shall
             for
             *
             reward
             haue
             glory
             ,
             wealth
             ,
             and
             life
             .
          
           
             He
             that
             himselfe
             doth
             humble
             ,
             certainly
             ,
          
           
             Our
             Sauiour
             saith
             shall
             be
             *
             exalted
             high
             .
          
           
             He
             that
             with
             Christ
             wil
             weare
             a
             glorious
             Crown
          
           
             Must
             cast
             himselfe
             ,
             (
             as
             Christ
             did
             )
             humbly
             down
          
           
             And
             like
             to
             the
             rebounding
             of
             a
             ball
             ,
          
           
             The
             way
             to
             rise
             ,
             must
             first
             be
             ,
             low
             to
             fall
             .
          
           
             For
             God
             the
             Father
             will
             accept
             of
             none
             ,
          
           
             That
             put
             not
             on
             the
             meeknes
             of
             his
             Sonne
             :
          
           
             If
             Proudly
             thou
             doe
             lift
             thy selfe
             on
             high
             ,
          
           
             God
             and
             his
             blessings
             ,
             from
             thee
             ,
             still
             will
             fly
             :
          
           
           
             But
             if
             thou
             humble
             ,
             meeke
             ,
             and
             lowly
             be
             ,
          
           
             God
             and
             his
             blessings
             will
             come
             downe
             to
             thee
             .
          
           
             ●f
             thou
             wouldst
             trauell
             vnto
             heau'n
             ,
             then
             know
             ,
          
           
             ●umility's
             the
             way
             that
             thou
             must
             goe
             .
          
           
             ●f
             in
             presumptuous
             pathes
             of
             Pride
             ,
             thou
             tread
             ,
          
           
             T
             is
             the
             right
             wrong
             way
             that
             to
             hell
             doth
             lead
             .
          
           
             ●now
             that
             thy
             birth
             ,
             attire
             ,
             strength
             ,
             beauty
             ,
             place
             ,
          
           
             ●re
             giu'n
             vnto
             thee
             by
             Gods
             speciall
             grace
             :
          
           
             ●now
             that
             thy
             wisdome
             ,
             learning
             ,
             and
             thy
             wealth
             ,
          
           
             Thy
             life
             ,
             thy
             Princes
             fauour
             ,
             beauty
             ,
             health
             ,
          
           
             ●nd
             whatsoeuer
             thou
             canst
             goodnes
             call
             ,
          
           
             ●as
             by
             Gods
             bounty
             giu'n
             vnto
             thee
             all
             .
          
           
             ●nd
             know
             that
             of
             thine
             owne
             thou
             dost
             possesse
             ,
          
           
             ●othing
             but
             sinne
             ,
             and
             wofull
             wretchednes
             ,
          
           
             Christians
             Pride
             should
             onely
             be
             in
             this
             ,
             
          
           
             When
             he
             can
             say
             that
             God
             his
             Father
             is
             .
          
           
             When
             grace
             and
             mercy
             ,
             (
             well
             applide
             )
             affoord
             ,
          
           
             ●o
             make
             him
             brother
             vnto
             Christ
             his
             Lord.
          
           
             When
             he
             vnto
             the
             holy
             Ghost
             can
             say
             ,
          
           
             ●hou
             art
             my
             Schoolemaster
             ,
             whom
             I
             'le
             obay
             ;
          
           
             When
             he
             can
             call
             the
             Saints
             his
             fellowes
             ,
             and
          
           
             ●●y
             to
             the
             Angells
             ,
             for
             my
             guard
             you
             stand
             ,
          
           
             This
             is
             a
             lawdable
             ,
             and
             Christian
             Pride
             ,
          
           
             〈◊〉
             know
             Christ
             ,
             and
             to
             know
             him
             crucifi'd
             .
          
           
             This
             is
             that
             meeke
             ambition
             ,
             low
             aspiring
             ,
          
           
           
             Which
             all
             men
             should
             be
             earnest
             in
             desiring
             :
          
           
             Thus
             to
             be
             proudly
             humble
             ,
             is
             the
             thing
             ,
          
           
             Which
             will
             vs
             to
             the
             state
             of
             glory
             bring
             .
          
           
             But
             yet
             beware
             ;
             Pride
             hypocriticall
             ,
          
           
             Puts
             not
             humilities
             cloake
             on
             at
             all
             :
          
           
             A
             lofty
             minde
             ,
             with
             lowly
             cap
             and
             knee
             ,
          
           
             Is
             humble
             Pride
             ,
             and
             meeke
             hypocrisie
             .
          
           
             Ambitious
             mindes
             ,
             with
             adulating
             lookes
             ,
          
           
             Like
             courteous
             Crowne-aspiring*
             Bullinbrookes
             ;
             
          
           
             As
             a
             great
             ship
             ill
             suited
             with
             small
             saile
             ,
          
           
             As
             Iudas
             meant
             all
             mischeife
             ,
             cride
             
               All
               haibe
            
             ,
          
           
             Like
             the
             humility
             of
             Absolon
             :
          
           
             This
             shadowed
             Pride
             ,
             much
             danger
             waites
             vpon
          
           
             These
             are
             the
             counterfeite
             (
             God
             faue
             yee
             Sirs
             )
          
           
             That
             haue
             their
             flattries
             in
             particulars
             ,
          
           
             That
             courteously
             can
             hide
             their
             proud
             intents
             ,
          
           
             Vnder
             varieties
             of
             complements
             .
          
           
             These
             vipers
             bend
             the
             knee
             ,
             and
             kisse
             the
             hand
             ,
          
           
             And
             sweare
             ,
             (
             sweet
             Sir
             )
             I
             am
             at
             your
             command
             .
          
           
             And
             proudly
             make
             humility
             a
             screw
             ,
          
           
             To
             wring
             themselues
             into
             opinions
             view
             .
          
           
             This
             Pride
             is
             hatefull
             ,
             dangerous
             ,
             and
             vile
             ,
          
           
             And
             shall
             it selfe
             (
             at
             last
             )
             it selfe
             beguile
             .
          
           
             Thus
             Pride
             is
             deadly
             sinne
             ,
             &
             sinne
             brings
             shame
             ,
          
           
             Which
             heere
             I
             leaue
             to
             hell
             ,
             from
             whence
             it
             came
          
        
         
           FINIS
           .
        
      
    
     
       
         Notes, typically marginal, from the original text
         
           Notes for div A13500-e1560
           
             If
             any
             man
             fetch
             his
             slory
             higher
             ,
             let
             him
             take
             my
             booke
             for
             nought
             .
          
           
             In
             perfect
             Holinesse
             and
             Righ●eousnesse
             .
          
           
             〈◊〉
             
          
           
             ●say
             14.
             4.
             
          
           
             Daniel
             4.
             
             Daniel
             5.
             
             The
             Medes
             and
             Persians
             .
          
           
             Acts
             12.
             ●osephus
             ●●b
             .
             19.
             ●●p
             .
             7.
             
             Acts
             8.
             
          
           
             
             Plutarch
             ●n
             the
             life
             ●f
             Alexander
             .
          
           
             ●e
             was
             ●pysned
             at
             Babylon
             .
          
           
             1.
             
             Cor.
             4.
             
          
           
             *
             A
             Tayler
             is
             but
             a
             man
             ;
             therefore
             it
             is
             Idolatry
             to
             worship
             his
             workmanship
             
          
           
             *
             The
             ●old
             of
             ●lood
             that
             ●he
             Iewes
             ●ought
             with
             the
             ●hirty
             pei●es
             of
             sil●er
             ,
             which
             
             ●udas
             ●rought
             ●acke
             a●aine
             after
             ●e
             betray●d
             Christ
             ,
             Mat.
             27.
             7.
             
             Acts
             1.
             19.
             
          
           
             *
             A
             milstone
             is
             a
             poereles
             lewell
             .
          
           
             *
             Two
             inuectiue
             pamphlets
             against
             the
             monstrous
             and
             shapelesse
             disguises
             of
             men
             and
             women
             .
          
           
             *
             Female
             Souldiors
             .
          
           
             Against
             Pride
             of
             worldly
             wisdome
             .
          
           
             1.
             
             Cor.
             2.
             7.
             
          
           
             Against
             Pride
             of
             humane
             knowledge
             
          
           
             *
             Ioh.
             17.
             3
             
             :
          
           
             *
             Luke
             1.
             73
             
          
           
             Against
             Pride
             of
             riches
             .
          
           
             *
             Luk.
             2
             
          
           
             Against
             Pride
             of
             Learnin
             
          
           
             Against
             bing
             proud
             of
             Princ
             fauours
             .
          
           
             Comparison
             .
          
           
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             of
             〈◊〉
             
          
           
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             of
             〈◊〉
             
          
           
             ●udges
             ●19
             .
          
           
             Against
             Pride
             of
             our
             hauir
             children
             .
          
           
             Toby
             4.
             
          
           
             Eccle.
             10.
             
          
           
             a
             Prouerbs
             16.
             
             Pro.
             29.
             
             Eccle.
             29.
             
             Matt.
             23.
             
             Luke
             14.
             18
             
             Luke
             1.
             ludeth
             9.
             
          
           
             b
             Against
             libellers
             .
             Most
             of
             these
             libellers
             haue
             an
             Itching
             veine
             of
             Riming
             ,
             which
             with
             much
             scratching
             maks
             scuruy
             lines
             &
             so
             from
             itch
             to
             seratch
             ,
             srō
             scratch
             to
             scuruy
             ,
             &
             from
             scuruy
             to
             seabbed
             they
             proceed
             in
             time
             ,
             with
             their
             botching
             ,
             to
             be
             termed
             (
             by
             knaues
             and
             fooles
             )
             scald
             Poets
             .
          
           
             The
             praise
             of
             Humility
          
           
             *
             Eccle.
             19.
             
          
           
             *
             Phil.
             2.
             3.
             
          
           
             *
             Psal
             ;
             25.
             9
             
          
           
             *
             Ps.
             138.
             6.
             
          
           
             *
             Prou.
             22.
             4.
             
          
           
             *
             Mat.
             23.
             12.
             
          
           
             A
             Pride
             which
             is
             fit
             for
             all
             estates
             .
          
           
             King
             Henry
             the
             4.
             
          
        
      
    
  

