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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Cheating theeues & Cutpurses. |
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Cheating theeues & Cutpurses.
Vngodly seignior, you that walke in shape,
Of a good gentleman with glorious tongue:
Though for a prey you altogether gape,
Trauersing the Citty all the streets along.
Besiedging euery crowd in euery place,
And will vndoe a man before his face.
Of a good gentleman with glorious tongue:
Though for a prey you altogether gape,
Trauersing the Citty all the streets along.
Besiedging euery crowd in euery place,
And will vndoe a man before his face.
Hauing your instrumentall tooles and kniues,
To shew your cunning ouer labouring people:
Vndoing them, their children and their wiues,
You shew no pitty on the poorest cripple,
Come how it will, so you lay hold vpon't,
You care not if mens liues should lie vpon't.
To shew your cunning ouer labouring people:
Vndoing them, their children and their wiues,
You shew no pitty on the poorest cripple,
Come how it will, so you lay hold vpon't,
You care not if mens liues should lie vpon't.
In fields and high-wayes, with purloined things,
As Buttens, Cambrick, Rapiers, and such like:
Old Hats, or Cloakes, or counterfeited rings,
And such like merchandise you dayly seeke.
To ouer-reach poore simple minded wretches,
In cheating wise by such your Tiburne fetches.
As Buttens, Cambrick, Rapiers, and such like:
Old Hats, or Cloakes, or counterfeited rings,
And such like merchandise you dayly seeke.
To ouer-reach poore simple minded wretches,
In cheating wise by such your Tiburne fetches.
Now forasmuch as you play least in sight,
That Maister Derrick cannot seize vpon you,
I haue a deputation to indite,
All your whole sect my blessing will come on you.
And with my whip Ile lead you such a course,
Shall saue you riding on the three legd horse.
That Maister Derrick cannot seize vpon you,
I haue a deputation to indite,
All your whole sect my blessing will come on you.
And with my whip Ile lead you such a course,
Shall saue you riding on the three legd horse.
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