The Court of Conscience or Dick Whippers Sessions With the order of his arraigning and punishing of many notorious, dissembling, wicked, and vitious liuers in this age. By Richard West |
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Gracelesse Trewant. |
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Gracelesse Trewant.
You that can take your breake-fast in your hand,
Your Pen and Inke, your Satchell at your back:
And blind your parents, you that must be mand,
To the schoole-doore like an vngodly crack.
For feare of running out mongst cut-pursse boyes,
To play at Trap, at nine-holes and such toyes.
Your Pen and Inke, your Satchell at your back:
And blind your parents, you that must be mand,
To the schoole-doore like an vngodly crack.
For feare of running out mongst cut-pursse boyes,
To play at Trap, at nine-holes and such toyes.
Neglecting that which for your sake your friends,
To their great cost would willingly bestow:
All for your good, yet you to make amends,
Practise your owne pernitious ouer-throw.
Casheiring all the dutie that is due
By Gods lawes to your parents all from you.
To their great cost would willingly bestow:
All for your good, yet you to make amends,
Practise your owne pernitious ouer-throw.
Casheiring all the dutie that is due
By Gods lawes to your parents all from you.
What is the meanes (but want of sound correcting)
That in you fall beginning with a little:
Pilfring and stealing, all good course obiecting,
Til maister graūd-theefe makes you venture mickle
Then from Bride-well, New gate, or other Iayle,
Either y'are hangd or whipt at a Carts taile.
That in you fall beginning with a little:
Pilfring and stealing, all good course obiecting,
Til maister graūd-theefe makes you venture mickle
Then from Bride-well, New gate, or other Iayle,
Either y'are hangd or whipt at a Carts taile.
By which good sillie Fathers heauie heart,
With carefull mothers sorrow too t'annexed:
Makes them repent each of them for their part,
Thy comming to the world th'are so perplexed.
Vntrusse thou villaine, neuer be in hope,
Ile whip thee from the hang-man and the rope.
With carefull mothers sorrow too t'annexed:
Makes them repent each of them for their part,
Thy comming to the world th'are so perplexed.
Vntrusse thou villaine, neuer be in hope,
Ile whip thee from the hang-man and the rope.
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