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2. THE SECOND PART OF THE GOLDEN FLEECE.

Chap. 3.

[Why keepes one man three Offices alone]

Chap. 4.

[From blaspheming of Gods name]

From blaspheming of Gods name,
From recanting words with shame,
From Damnation eternall,
From a sicke Soule internall,
From a Sinner will not mend,
From a friend, that will not lend,
From all moderne abuses,
From much things to no vses,
From Ignatians cursed swords,
From an Alchymists faire words,
From those Friers, which Cloakes vse,
As from such that haunt the Stewes,
From such Sins as doe delight vs,
As from dreames which doe affright vs,
From Parasites, that stroake vs,
From morsels, that will choake vs,
From false Sycophants, that sooth vs,
As from those in Sinne doe smooth vs,
From all profane Discourses,
From all vngodly Courses,
Sweet Angell free,
deliuer me.
From Craggy hils and mountaines,
From mire and muddy Fountaines,
From touching Toades and Spiders,
From Shooters hill ranke Riders,
From th'Exchequer Promooters,
From prying Spies and Tooters,
From Baylifes & Informers,
That faigne to be Reformers,
Frō Cutthroat City Catchpoles,
That care not how they vexe soules,
From Bridewell and from Newgate,
From deare wit, that's bought too late,
From the Law of Halifaxe,
From the loane of the Tower axe,
From fraies & causelesse battell,
From murren in our Cattell,
From one thats euer prating,
From Extortion & grating,
From St. Nicholas Clarkes at night,
From such crue, as shun the light,
Sweet Angel free,
deliuer me.
From flowtes, which friendship sunder,
From Lightning, Stormes, and thunder,
From Nouelists coind rumours,
From all Phantasticke humours,
From such scolds as bite and scratch,
From a causelesse masticke patch,
From all such as purses cut,
From a filthy durty slut,
From an old man luxurious,
From a yong man litigious,
From a riggish wanton Trul,
That her Louer seekes to gull,
From Setters, Canters, Cheaters,
No better then men-eaters,
From an ill name and bad fame,
From much need and open shame,
From stolne Goods receauers,
From close sly Deceauers,
From a wanton that will rig,
And delight to daunce a Iig,
Sweet Angell free,
deliuer me.
From a Priest that will mumble,
From a Nunne that will iumble,
From rude Knaues that Maids tumble,
From Cattes and Rattes, which rumble,
From seruants, that will grumble,
From a Iade, that will stumble,
From Drunkennes and Lechery,
From scarcity and Penury,
From excesse of meat as drinke,
From Tobaccoes noy some stinke,
From opinions of Doctors,
From busines with Proctors,
From conuersing with wranglers,
From the patience of Anglers,
From Lawyers visitation,
From waste and desolation,
From one that delights in Law,
From a Lions bloudy claw,
From bawdy Courts Citations,
From Excommunications,
From a State full of factions,
From all vngodly Actions,
Sweet Angell free
deliuer me.
From all hard-hearted Masters,
Which vse not words, but wasters,
From a new Oast, proud and poore:
From a stale and gracelesse whore,
From bold Bayards downe-right blowes,
From sly peckings of night-crowes,
From Musicians Phantasticke,
From Tradesmen growne scholasticke,
From any Bonds to marchants,
From acquaintance with Serieants,
From the mercy of Iaylors,
From the long Bils of Taylors,
From Bankrouts too late wishes,
From all vnwholsome dishes,
From conuersation with Clownes,
Which wil sel both Verbes & Nownes,
From a Castellian drugger,
That poyson sels for Suger,
From the Sicilian vesper,
From bits more hard then Iasper,
Sweet Angell free
deliuer me.
From men with Murther tainted,
From women which are painted,
From all far-fetcht New fangles,
From him that euer wrangles,
From euery harlot-morger,
From heat, cold, thirst and hunger,
From a rough-handed Barber,
As from an Irish Caruer,
From ore that is brow branded,
From him that is left handed,
From a feast without some wine,
Bid to Supper or to dine,
From drinking much cold water,
From a coozening false Cater,
From pondred Beefe sans mustard,
From a thin and sowre Custard,
From rotten Cheese and addle Eggs,
From broken Shins and gowty Legs,
From a decrepit Capon,
From stinking fish and Bacon,
From stale and filthy Sturgeon,
As from a foolish Surgeon,
From a Pudding hath no end,
From a Bow that will not bend,
Sweet Angell free,
deliuer me.
From straggling on a strange heath,
Which once had neere wrought my death,
From bribing and vile Trafficke,
From Monsters bred in Affrik,
From daily Contributions,
From partiall distributions,
From a Cooke that is a slut,
From a knife, that will not cut,
From a short-heeld skittish wife,
Worse then any Cut-purse knife,
From men too rash and testy,
As from wild Iades or resty,
From Essex stiles, and Norfolke wiles,
From Yorke miles, & theeues night files,
From Shopmen that will palter,
As Knaues deserue a halter,
From a bribing Constable,
From the winds of Dunstable,
From a young Iustice of Peace,
That from prating doth not cease.
From his Fellow that ne're speakes
A wise word, but Currat Lex,
Sweet Angell free,
deliuer me.
From men cleane voyd of Reason,
From dishes out of season,
From men too nice and curious,
From men too rash & furious,
From Courtiers honey-spoken,
From Marchants that be broken,
From Chanceries Iniunctions,
From dearely bought Presumptions,
From any rash Intrusions,
From purchased Pollutions,
From strong Beere and heady Ale,
From a long and tedious Tale,
From a Sophistick Bruer,
Then whom the Diuell is truer,
From anguish, griefe, and sorrow,
From any need to borrow,
From the Counter or the Fleet,
From doing Penance in a sheet,
From all straight and pinching shooes,
From all Cornes on Feet or Toes,
From a light and Pennilesse Purse,
As from a sore and dismall Curse,
From Suites by Friends procuremēts,
From all the worlds allurements,
Sweet Angell free,
deliuer me.

Chap. 5.

[There is a time of earnest things to write]

There is a time of earnest things to write,
A time to talke of matters small & light,
A time to walk, to run, to ride, or praunce,
A time to sit and laugh, or lead a Daunce.
There is a time for men to fast and pray,
And so a time to sing like Birds in May.

Chap. VII.

[Tis honour great abroad to settle peace]

Tis honour great abroad to settle peace,
But greater farre our countries broyles t'appease.
Towards the Next true Loue must first begin.
High things I begge. From iars defend Gods Kin.
Though mangled we, you may vnite vs all,
If you reforme the subtill pleading Hall.
The Lawyer maskt with Law on vs doth feed.
Few men escape. The Niggard stands in need.

[King Iohn his Crowne did to the Pope expose]

King Iohn his Crowne did to the Pope expose,
Which, as you saw, poore Luther durst oppose.
Both Skies and Seas with sundry motions rage;
Yet now is come Astreaes Golden Age.
A King of Denmarks Bloud Lawes out of ioynt,
As there in written Bookes here shall appoint.
None then shal wrest, as would K. Iames ordaine,
A secret Law hatcht in one Lawyers braine.
If he offend for Bribes, Fraud, or Delay,
Twere fit that Noblemen or Bishops may
Iudge him, where he shal not preuaile with gold,
With Friendship, quirks, Demurres, nor facing bold.
What differs it to see a Tyrant rule?
Or a rau'nous Iudge riding on his Mule?
A King may keepe his daring Foes in awe,
With lesser charge then men doe spend in Law.

Chap. VIII.

[One's thunder strooke, Another's grac't amaine.]

One's thunder strooke, Another's grac't amaine.
The cause the same. Such is the force of Gaine.
Without deare coine, the Lawyer sayes but mum:
Yet when it sounds, the lawes thēselues are dūbe.
The tongue vowes hope, his mind losse. Doues turn'd Aspes.
Sweet hony gall. How ill Loue Hatred claspes!

Chap. IX.

[Bright Light of Loue, which knowest the Originals]

Bright Light of Loue, which knowest the Originals,
And Principles of Supernaturals,
Which measur'st Globes, & the 7. wādring Spheares,
Inspire my heart. Let not subrustick Feares,
Nor bashfulnesse of Virgins crimson hew
Astonish me from speaking what is true;
But that with free and lofty voice I sound
Sweet Peace, which may strife, and not Lawes, confound.
Doues build in holes of Rockes: but thou, my Doue,
In holes of bloudied Rocke must build thy Loue.
My Soule, like to a Doue with silver wings,
Flies to Christ's wounds for feare of Vipers stings.
He is my Rocke, my Sauiour, and Defence,
While I stand cloth'd in Robes of innocence.
Hee knowes my aime is faire, jarres to subdue
And Charitie in Lawyers to renew.
Some thinke it a hard taske, impossible;
But unto God all things are possible.
Others subiect mens fraile intelligence,
And Reformations to Starres Influence:
As though Errours waite on Reuolutions,
Bald times pleasure, or Constellations.
First, let thē learne; although the Suns cleere beames
With his pale Sister, Lady of the streames,
Doe rule the World, and worke in Trees and Flowers,
Yet can they not controule Diuiner Powers,
Such as our Spirits be, nor yet our wits,
Which Policie refines with sacred Writs.
Who can deny, but Craft's the cause of Euill?
As Truth will shame Promooters and the Deuill?
As Vnitie and Iustice I adore,
So these turn'd topsie turuy I deplore.
Of Old it was not so. Then, no Surmizes
Could wrest Lawes, nor Pleas maskt in disguises.
Few Sentences then served to unfold
Great matters. Then they pleaded not for Gold;
But eu'ry man in person to the Iudge,
As vnto God, his Case shew'd without grudge.
This made them quiet, and stor'd with Treasure,
Where we spend, attending Misers leasure.
We spend our Thrift, our Braines, and precious times
By lewd mens counsels fild with heynous crimes
In needlesse Suits, whom they hold for Clients,
Or Tenants, like greedy Leaches Patients.
Through thicke and thinne vp to the eares and chin,
They make vs drudge to bring them mony in.
But what's the end? Their Heires do seldom thriue.
Although in Pomps their aged Starlings liue,
And sucking Pidgeons bloud turne Cormorants:
Yet neuer Apes will grow to Elephants;
Nor will God suffer an Impostors Race
To flourish long, nor wisdome, to embrace.
Some Nations He plagues for their Drunkennesse
With bloudy warres; some for their Beastlinesse
With Famine of his Word. But vs He smites
By letting double Tongues, vse base despites.
Then friske like Foxes brisk, and squeak like Rats;
Or barke like Curres, or caterwaule like Cats.
Feare no thornes, lift vp your hornes; each Brother,
Like juggling Gypsies, deceiue another.
This man rake, him to the stake; hold your owne.
Cheat kindly, my Maisters; There's Gold in Towne.
By Hook or by Crook, by Right or by Wrong
Cramme Purses with Curses. O dismall Song!
All's Fish that comes to Net in Sea or Brooke.
No surer angling then the Golden Hooke.
Glad is false Iudas of his siluer pouch;
Glad is fond Midas of his golden Touch,
As Whales doe play vpon the lesser Fish,
Till Harping-irons spoyle their latest wish;
So These wound Christ againe through Neighbours sides,
Till Earth deuoures her due, their hideous hides.
O curuæ in terras Animæ Cœlestium inanes!
O stooping Soules to Earthly trumperies,
And quite deuoid of Heauenly Mysteries!

Chap. XII.

[Beware of Physicke mixt by Romish brood]

Beware of Physicke mixt by Romish brood,
Whom Mariane taught to let great Princes bloud.
By Lopez learne by poyson hir'd to kill,
What mind those haue a Christians bloud to spill.
Tobacco, late which men haue brought frō Spain,
Is thought to taint the bloud, heart, lungs, & brain.
The Iesuits this teach, as a point of merit,
To murther some, and Heauen to inherit.
Lust creepes and Theft by opportunitie.
Then cheere not Æsops Snake with iollitie.

Chap. XI.

[It matters not so much to weare the Horne]

It matters not so much to weare the Horne,
If that it might be free from others scorne.
Hornes haue no cure, but when thy selfe art sped,
To graffe those Hornes vpon anothers head.

[Woe to thee, Tarleton, that euer thou wert borne]

Woe to thee, Tarleton, that euer thou wert borne,
Thy Wife hath made thee a Cuckold, and thou
must weare the Horne,
What and if she hath? Am I a whit the worse?
She keeps me like a Gentleman with mony in my
Purse.

[O those faire starlike eyes of thine, one sayes]

O those faire starlike eyes of thine, one sayes,
When to my seeming she hath lookt nine wayes.
And that sweet breath, when I thinke out upon it
It would blast a flowre, if she breathed on it.

Chap. XII.

[Who doth desire that chast his Wife should be]

Sir Philip Sidney.
Who doth desire that chast his Wife should be,
First, be he true, for Truth doth Truth deserue.
Then be he such as she his worth may see,
And one man still credit with her preserue.
Not toying kind, nor toyishly unkind:
Not stirring thoughts, nor yet denying right:
Nor spying faults, nor in plaine Errours blind:
Neuer hard hand, nor euer reines too light:
As farre from want, as farre from vaine expence:
The one doth force, the latter doth entice.
Allow good Company, but keepe from thence,
All filthy mouthes, that glory in their vice.
This done thou hast no more, but leaue the rest
Vnto thy Fortune, time, and womans brest.

Sir Iohn Harrington.
Concerning wiues take this a certaine Rule,
That if at first you let her haue the rule,
Your selfe at length with her shall beare no rule,
Except you let her euermore to rule.
Yet in the house, as busie as a Bee,
I am content my Wife sting all but me.

Sir Thomas Ouerbery.
O rather let me loue, then be in loue;
So let me chuse as Wife and Friend to find.
Let me forget her Sexe, when I approue.
Beasts liknesse lies in shape, but ours in mind.
Our Soules no Sexes haue. Their Loue is cleane.
No Sexe, both in the better part are men.
Domestick Charge doth best that Sex befit
Contiguous businesse so to fixe the mind.
That leasure space for fancies not admit.
Their leisure tis corrupteth woman-kind
Else being plast from many vices free,
They had to Heau'n a shorter cut then we.
Womens behauiour is a surer barre,
Then is their No. That fairely doth deny
Without denying; thereby kept they are
Safe eu'n from hope. In part too blame is shee
Which hath without Consent beene onely tride.
He comes too neere that comes to be denide.

Ariosto.
Like a true Turtle with thine owne Doue stay,
Else others twixt thy sheets may falsly play.
If thou wilt haue her loue and honour thee,
First, let her thine Affections largely see.
What shee doth for thee kindly that respect,
And shew how thou her loue dost well affect.
Remember she is neighbour to thy heart,
And not thy slaue: shee is thy better part.
Thinke tis enough that her thou mighst command:
Whilest she in Marriage bonds doth loyall stand,
Although thy power thou neuer doe approue,
For thats the way to make her leaue to loue.
To goe to Feasts and Weddings 'mongst the Best,
Tis not amisse: for their suspect is least.
Nor is it meet that shee the Church refraine,
Sith there is vertue, and her Noble Traine.

[A puling Female Creature, which hath smiles]

A puling Female Creature, which hath smiles
Like Sirens Songs, and teares like Crocodiles.

[As Mothers are, so will the Daughters be]

As Mothers are, so will the Daughters be:
Chast was Susannaes Mother, chaste was she.
Baals Miracles she from her Cradle knew,
As how vaines Tombes with Idols to eschew,
She honour'd Abram, Moses, and the Saints;
But vnto God she framed her Complaints.
Bad Company she shunn'd, as Rockie shelues,
And fear'd suspected Suiters worse then Elues.
If Flesh and Bloud in her began to tickle,
She mortified her thoughts, that were so fickle.
She fasted oft, but oftner vs'd to pray;
To which she ioyn'd some labour eu'ry day.
No Day without a Line. She daily wrought,
Somtimes on Needle, when she fitting thought.
Or spunne by Distaffe, or the Wheele she rowld,
Somtimes on Loome, her skil she would vnfold.
At times she stirr'd more busie then the Bee,
And was well pleas'd the Maids to ouer-see.
Tir'd with houshold busines on Harp she playes
Or Violl, which she tunes to Dauids Layes.
One while she sings for her recreation.
Of Noahs Arke, and the first Creation.
Another whiles of Ægypts Miracles,
Her Nation blest with Sinaes Oracles;
Their wandring forty yeeres with Manna fed,
And in the Desert by an Angell led.
Now of their Wars she tels with warbling voice,
Anon of Iewries fall with dolefull noyse.
One while she reades, another while she writes;
She writes those rules, which she herself endites.
Some other time, to draw the Countries Aire,
She went abroad, but neuer to a Faire.
Least, Tortoiselike cub'd vp; shee might take harme,
She goes abroad to see her Fathers Farme.
The Fields shee likes, but more the Garden walkes,
To note Gods workes in seedes, herbes, flowres, and stalkes,
Yea, & though seldome, she the Towne suruayes
With her deere Mother witnesse of her wayes.

Chap. XIIII.

[What at this day doe Brittaines Tongues bewray?]

What at this day doe Brittaines Tongues bewray?
That by strong liquor some haue gone astray.
Faiths Temple they pollute with Cup and Can,
In Duties fayling towards God and Man.
They spend their wealth, spoile their health, mar their wits
By drinking more then sober men befits.
Thus haue our bordring Dutchmen lately swill'd,
Vntill their Pots with Neighbours bloud are fill'd,
Repent, be wise in time by others harmes;
Flie witching Cups for feare of after-harmes.
If not: your King your Tauernes must destroy,
Least suffring Sinne himselfe doe feele annoy.

Chap. XV.

[Three hundred thousand pounds yee yearely spend]

Three hundred thousand pounds yee yearely spend
In hastning griefes vnto a deadly end.
Yee need not Hellebore. Tobaccoes fume
From Court and Cottage wil expell the rheume.
Alas fond Fooles! which spend your meanes and health,
With Sathans ioy, and hurt to Common-wealth.
Why come not in your Foes to doe you harme?
The English faint, if they but heare Alarme.
When Humors quaile, the Spirits moue but dul,
When Subiects faile, th' Exchequer is not full.
Let them, that loue the Smoake, fall with the smell.
Tis true, Tobacconists; why do yee swell
With anger at the truth? Ere seuen yeeres end
Tobacco will the banefull force extend.
It breeds a wheezing in a narrow breast,
The Hecktick Feuer, or thick Fleame at least.
A bastard heat within the veines it leaues,
Which spoyles the Infant, if the Wife conceiues.
Yet sipt with Hysops iuyce, or held in mouth,
Or snuft, it cures the Lungs, and Tisickes growth.

Chap. XVII.

[From painting of the Trinitie]

S. George.
From painting of the Trinitie
From iesting with high Maiestie,
From th' Alcoran and Papistry,
From Brokers rotten Tapistry.
From deepe Mysteries too holy:
From mad Fits and Melancholy;
From Iesuits Monkes, and Friers:
From Hypocrites, Knaues and Liers.
From trusting Saints, distrusting God
From feeling of his wrath and rod.
From Romes Pardons, Bulls and Masses:
From Wine Lees, and broken Glasses.
From Sale of Soules, and Heauens Gifts;
From Beades and bables, Whoorish shifts.
From wounding Christ on Gods right hand:
From grounding Faith vpon the sand.
From parting thence by any way
His Bodie plac't vntill Doomesday.
From condemning sacred Marriage:
From secret shrift, and lustfull rage.
From Trust to Merits, except Christs
From Iuglers trickes and Antichrists.
Our Christs great Genius
Blesse and defend vs.

S. Andrew.
From blaming things indifferent:
From working in our Faith a rent.
From a selfe-will'd rash Puritane,
As from a Foole, or Mauritane.
From him that railes against a Cope,
And yet would be his Parish Pope.
From ingrossing from a Brother
Goods or Charge due to another.
From many Offices alone,
Or Benefices more then One.
From causing Scandall to my Place,
Vsurping much with shamelesse face.
From Clergy-men non Residents:
From such as shew ill Presidents.
From slie Pick-locks, and Cut-purse Kniues:
From stealing Honey from Bee-hiues.
From flaunting in anothers Coat,
Like Æsops Daw, preaching by roat,
From Dancing on the Sabaoth Day:
From shewing Youth lewd Cupids way.
Our Sauiours Genius
Shield and protect vs.

S. Dauid.
From swallowing Law with greedie throat:
From tearing Christ his seamelesse Coat.
From selling Christ for Earthly drosse;
From wealth gain'd by good Christians losse.
From Iudges sentence after Sacke:
From Thunder, Tempests, and Sea-wracke.
From those, which Plaintiffes most approue;
As from Munkeyes, which Spiders loue.
From Lawes, which wrest the Sickmans staffe:
From Swine, which eate more Foule then draffe.
From letting Lawyers haue their wils:
From Scammonie made into Pils.
From hirelings Tongues, and Make-bates hisse,
Betraying Law with Iudas kisse.
From a corrupted stately Iudge,
Which makes good Clients moyle and drudge.
From Magistrates too insolent:
From needlesse Courts impertinent.
From them which speake not what they thinke;
Which blame small faults, at greater winke.
From Iudges vpstart late from Clownes:
From Serpents stings, or Tyrants frownes.
The Worlds bright Genius
Keepe and defend vs.

S. Patrick.
From hired Spies, and hidden Foes,
More dangerous then any woes.
From Leaders young, or too too Old:
From Souldiers knowne of nature Cold.
From Butchers, which mans bloud doe spill:
From sparing those, whom God bids, kill.
From a Commander meanly borne:
From reaping Tares insteed of Corne.
From hopes in Captaines not belou'd;
From ordring Bees, when they are mou'd.
From meeting Straglers night or day
Left vnprouided by the way.
From Souldiers tumults, taunts, and quips,
If long vnpaid in Forts or Ships.
From Leaders without stratagems;
From letting Hogs haue precious Gems.
From a Leader too out-ragious:
From a Captaine not couragious.
From filthy moores and Irish bogs,
From Scottish mists and English fogs.
Discretions Genius
Shield and preuent vs.

S. George.
From Spanish Pensions, and their Spies:
From weeping Cheese with Argus eyes,
From slumbring long in carelesse Peace:
From dreaming oft of curelesse ease.
From fond Maskes, and idle mumming:
From fain'd Playes and causelesse drumming.
From preferring Peace with danger
Before iust Warre, wrongs reuenger.
From suffering Foes to triumph still;
From letting Sathan haue his will.
From falling from Saint Michaels armes,
Not taking heed by others harmes.
From puffing vp proud Giants growne:
From pulling Dauids courage downe.
From louing Money more then God;
From keeping Beanes within the cod.
From disbursing needfull treasure,
To maintayne phantastick pleasure.
From greasing Lawyers hands with Gold,
Which better serues to keepe a Hold.
From fostring Suites (O poys'nous Toad)
For Money, which ends Warres abroad.
From those men, which sue Protections
To shrowd their lewd shrewd Defections.
Great Brittaines Genius
Guard and restore vs.

S. Andrew.
From Iesuits old conuerted,
As from Brownists young peruerted.
From the Simony of a Priest;
From Mills, which spoyle the Owners griest.
From glorying in an outward Robe:
From tainting Faith. The Saints Wardrobe.
From a Priest, that couets money;
From a Bee-hiue without Honey,
From Preachers, which to Pride encline,
Or from old plainnesse may decline.
From those, which in silke Robes doe ruffle,
Which more for Goods then Good doe scuffle.
From such as liue vpon the lurch,
Like Dogs and Hogs within the Church.
From men, whose wits lie in their beards;
From Goats, and all such impious heards.
From the Bibles false construction,
As from ruine and destruction.
From all Æquiuocation,
With mentall reseruation.
From Romes Charmes and Babels Ballets:
From Lumbards bits and Spanish Sallets.
Our Christian Genius,
Saue and protect vs.

S. Dauid.
From Westminster Hals Out-laries:
From causelesse long vagaries.
From meeting strong Competitours:
From Iudges growne Sollicitours.
From contesting with Superiours,
Or despising our Inferiours,
From contending with our Equals,
Procuring anger, blowes, or brawles.
From crossing men in their disputes;
From losing loue, and Friends salutes:
From angring Lords, or Court Minions:
From selfe-will and wits opinions.
From Law-suits worse, then Spanish Poxe,
As bad as Hornes, or Widowes boxe.
From ignorant Clerkes and Deacons;
From seeing of fired Beacons.
From angring God with Cup or Can:
From drinking more, then serues one man.
From keeping Drunkards company:
From Agues, Coughes, or Timpany.
From Ale-houses, Bowling Allies;
From Bulls Pizzles, and Spaines Gallies.
Sweet vertues Genius
Blesse, shield, and saue vs.

S. Patrick.
From all Actions, which are euill;
From vaine shewes, the Flesh, and Deuill.
From all State Reason hatcht in Spaine,
Which will doe wrong, and wrong maintaine.
From bloudy Clements cursed Knife,
That sought to spoyle his Souereignes life.
From Rauiliacks damned Dagger:
From Iesuits, that will swagger.
From Forraigne Foes inuasions:
From Papisticall perswasions.
From them, which make free Christians slaues.
Ambitious Dons with Moorish braues.
From sudden Insurrections:
From poysoned Confections.
From the Spanish Inquisition:
From want of good Munition.
From false and lewd Conspiracies:
From Rouers and Sea Piracies.
From rampant Nuns now clad in gray:
From Strumpets wholy giu'n to play.
From burning baits and Sinnes desire;
As from the smoke of Sea-coale fire.
Our Sauiours Genius
Saue and defend vs.

S. George.
From carrying Coine out of this Land
Without the which it cannot stand.
From Wares and Bils of Bankers strange,
Except we cloth and fish exchange.
From bringing backe the Foxes Taile
For many Skins sold by retaile.
From priuate Gaine by publicke losse:
From comming home by weeping Crosse.
From wasting Woods for Timber fit;
From Troians too late after wit.
From high Sayles, and costly Coaches:
From Pickpurse Drugs, and much Loches.
From all Tobaccoes stinking fume:
From a foule breath, and store of Rheume.
From wearing Gold or Siluer-lace,
While Dearth and Warres rush on apace.
From Meate and Drinke seru'd in much Plate,
When Penury afflicts the State.
From such, as English Carzey slight,
Preferring Spaines Silkes weake and light.
Our States great Genius
Blesse and defend vs.

S. Andrew.
From eating Flesh insteed of Fish:
From hauing Scandall in my dish.
From spending time at Tragedies:
Or hard got Coine at Comedies.
From reading foolish Rimers Bookes,
Or lying Tales, like bayted hookes.
From much Play at Noddy and Trumpe:
As from the Smell of foule ship-pumpe.
From many Horses, Hounds, and Hawkes:
Actæons end, or plots of Faukes.
From idle Tales, Wares, and Fables:
From Primero, Gleeke, and Tables.
From Irish, Lurch, Chance, and Ticktack.
The Boot deseruing or the Racke.
From the Truth maskt in disguises:
From all friuolus surmises.
From Cursing and from Periury:
From Coyning and from Forgery.
From Parasites, Knaues, and Sharkers,
From such Dogs, as are no barkers.
From an Alchymist growne threed-bare:
From much carke, and foolish care
The Heauens high Genius.
Guard and refine vs.

S. Dauid.
From being vnthankfull vnto friends:
From leauing Angels, louing fiends.
From all Physicians Recipes,
Which commonly proue Decipes.
From Physicke at a Papists hand:
From him, which hates his Natiue Land.
From an Emperickes experience:
From a Scriueners straight-lac't Conscience.
From Tauernes, Tables, Cards, and Dice;
From Beggery, bad Name, and Lice.
From boystrous stormes and blustring blasts:
From ships at Sea, which haue no masts.
From Pot-bardhs and Poetasters:
From all vnthrifts, and great wasters.
From them, which dine alwayes in Powles:
From all Carousers in great bowles.
From a Crab-face, which neuer smiles:
From Lawyers full of quirkes and wiles.
From Vsurers, and base Brokers;
From Attourneyes, that be soakers.
From Cut-throat Mercers baits and Bookes:
From Beares, big bugs, and rauenous Rookes.
From womens smiles and tempting lookes:
From Crocodiles and Cheaters hookes.
From a woman, which is franticke:
From a Seruingman Pedantick.
From too much sweat and trudging toyle,
As from a Lampe without some Oyle.
Heauens bright Genius
Shield and preuent vs.

S. Patrick.
From Vagabonds, Knaues, and Gypsies:
From Comets and Sunnes Eclipses.
From bloudie Surgeons, that would purge vs:
From cruell Iudges, that would scourge vs.
From a young Physicians Physicke;
From the Lungs, Consumption, Tisick.
From brain-sicke Louers fond Conceits:
From coozening Pedlers strange deceits.
From Coughes, Blindnesse, and Vertigo:
From Biles, Tetters, and Serpigo.
From all Poxes and the Meazels;
From a House too full of Weazels.
From the Plague and putrid Feuer
Blesse me, Lord, and keepe me euer.
From the Scuruie, Crampe, and Itches,
From Bone-aches, and sore Stiches.
From the Gout, the Stone and Collicke;
Which some hinder to be frollicke.
From numme Palsies, and pale Dropsies;
From secret Griefes and Pleurisies.
From scabbed hands and foule Blisters:
From Purgations and much Glisters.
From Gluttonie and Drunkennesse
Causing these, and eu'ry sicknesse.
True Physicks Genius.
Conuert and heale vs.

S. George.
From Seruingmen without good parts:
From feeding such fit for dung-carts.
From Lubbers that will eate and drinke,
Doing nothing else, but lie and stinke.
From rude Carters, and raw Saylers;
From Quick-sands, and Bedlem-Raylers.
From Bonds for Debts, or Indentures;
As from perillous Aduentures.
From one that feares to tame a Scold:
From a Coward and a Cuckold.
From proud Ladies vse of Pattens:
From the Popes and Paris Mattens.
From those which scorne their Countries tire,
And to Out-landish bend, like Wire.
From those, which long for each trifle.
And their Husbands Purses rifle.
From those, which hunt for curious cheere,
Chicken Peepers, and Phesants deere.
From Ladies vse of waters hot;
From pimpled faces, and teeths rot.
From them, which loue themselues alone;
Or such, as loue more Mates then one.
From a woman, thats wont to friske:
From Wine, which tasts not liuely brisk.
Our Soules bright Genius
Diuert and keepe vs.

S. Andrew.
From Mens long locks, and Maids cut haire;
From these with points, those painted faire.
From Citizens like Gallants drest:
From Apes vngrac't, and so vnblest.
From things, Scandall which engender;
Geese with Ganders changing gender;
From Periwickes and curled lockes:
From Womanizers, and Smel-smockes.
From Newfangles, and Fond-fashions;
From fooles fancies, and wild Passions.
From setting Maids to Dancing Schooles,
Or Musicke much, to make them Fooles.
From a Cockney shallow-headed,
Tells not what legs a Sheepe hath dead.
From gazing on a Beauteous skin:
From a faire Apple, foule within.
From kissing much a Damsell sweet,
Though for a Pope a morsell meet.
From sucking on a lickrish bait:
From making crooked what is strait.
From faire Gazers out at Casements;
From false Mistresses embracements.
From Slanders cutting worse then Swords;
From bawdy Iests, and beastly words.
The Starres faire Genius
Saue and direct vs.

S. Dauid.
From lulling in a Ladies lap,
Like a great Foole, which longs for pap.
From Time ill spent, and vaine Repute:
From Apple-trees without some fruit.
From Faith without wrought Charitie;
From false pretending Pietie.
From loue of Pelfe and worldly wealth,
Not carking most for my Soules health.
From Siluer Pictures loue or Gold;
From fancying Earth, when I am old.
From buying Lands Old and cruell;
From losing Heauen, gayning Hell
From Diues fare, and hardned mind;
While Lazarus with hunger's pin'd.
From tumbling in a downy bed,
While Godlier men for cold lie dead.
From Misers, and those greedy Elues,
Which loue no Creatures but themselues.
From wishing Neighbours lazie bones,
When Hiues are full, to play the Drones.
From sneaking like a Snaile at home;
When Forraigne Climes yeeld elbow rome;
From them which hate Plantations:
From Sathans combinations.
Our Christ's bright Genius
Blesse and reforme vs

S. Patrick.
From a faire House which seldome smoakes,
While the Owner in Riot soakes.
From slauish prodigalitie:
From miserable frugalitie.
From a Cloake that's full of patches:
From a Hen which neuer hatches.
From seeing Elues or strange Monsters;
Or those men my mind misconsters.
From those which causlesse doe arrest vs.
When we would gladly sit and rest vs.
From such sights make vs amazed:
From a Chamber not well glazed.
From rude people in a furie:
From a false and partiall Iurie.
From Almanacks false predictions:
From th' Exchange and Currents fictions.
From White Spaniards, or Red headed:
From all Women which are bearded.
From Black-haird Women, stubborne proud:
From Little Deuils scolding loud.
From the Faire-snouted held for Fooles;
From all long slow-backs, idle tooles.
From Red-hair'd Foxes, closely bad:
From pale and leane, too peeuish sad.
The Worlds great Genius,
Blesse and defend vs.

Apolloes Oracle.

If Brittaines King like valiant Hercules,
His Stables cleanse, and those Foxes footlesse,
Which Christian Vines destroy, do firret out;
His Prouinces shall rise without all doubt.
And brauely flourish by our Golden Fleece;
As Rome was, sau'd once by the noyse of Geese,
So he restraine some of these vagaries:
For Contraries are cur'd by Contraries.