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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The names of the Iewrie.
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- Good Counsell.
- Vpright Iudge.
- Zealous patron.
- Faithfull Minister.
- Godly Magistrate.
- Loyall Subiect.
- Charitable Benefactor.
- Carefull parent.
- Obedient Child.
- Sure Friend.
- Peace-maker.
- Lowly minded.
Good Counsell.
Starre of the Senate, light of all the land,
Truths cheese supporter, piller of aduice,
Mishaps preuenter, leader of the band,
Out of Captiuitie Iewell of great price.
Guard to thy King, country and peoples health,
Wisdomes way-maker roote of common-wealth.
Truths cheese supporter, piller of aduice,
Mishaps preuenter, leader of the band,
Out of Captiuitie Iewell of great price.
Guard to thy King, country and peoples health,
Wisdomes way-maker roote of common-wealth.
Vigilant waker when that others sleepe,
The King and Countries good, that seekst to find:
To heare the wofull plaints of such as weepe,
Opprest by their superiors most vnkinde.
Helping with thy aduice that to redresse,
That otherwise would countries bane encrease.
The King and Countries good, that seekst to find:
To heare the wofull plaints of such as weepe,
Opprest by their superiors most vnkinde.
Helping with thy aduice that to redresse,
That otherwise would countries bane encrease.
To framing of good lawes thou lend'st thine eare,
With purse and helpe in seruice of thy Prince;
Countrie and neighbours with a tender care,
Of being forward people to incense.
To the right seruice of Almighty God,
And breaking superstitious heauie clod.
With purse and helpe in seruice of thy Prince;
Countrie and neighbours with a tender care,
Of being forward people to incense.
To the right seruice of Almighty God,
And breaking superstitious heauie clod.
Be thou as fore-man in this Iewrie graue,
Receiue a robe befitting such a wight:
Let giue thy sentence, 'gainst deceiptfull knaue,
Be to his hid deceit an open light.
Receiue of people thankes and worthy praise,
In heauen of God, the crowne which neuer decaies.
Receiue a robe befitting such a wight:
Let giue thy sentence, 'gainst deceiptfull knaue,
Be to his hid deceit an open light.
Receiue of people thankes and worthy praise,
In heauen of God, the crowne which neuer decaies.
Vpright Iudge.
VVith grauitie and with indifference,
Thou equally dost Iudge all things in right
With Iust sealed waightes, & with an euen ballance,
Thou waiyest causes in the publique sight,
Of all the world not tendring bribe or fee,
Which shewes the feare of God to stand in thee.
Thou equally dost Iudge all things in right
With Iust sealed waightes, & with an euen ballance,
Thou waiyest causes in the publique sight,
Of all the world not tendring bribe or fee,
Which shewes the feare of God to stand in thee.
The Heauens maker and the earthly Kings,
Hauing respect to that thy Godly care:
For trewly waying all vnequall things,
Haue plac'd thee in a princely seat full rare.
Which place of their owne persones destitute,
They haue appointed thee to execute.
Hauing respect to that thy Godly care:
For trewly waying all vnequall things,
Haue plac'd thee in a princely seat full rare.
Which place of their owne persones destitute,
They haue appointed thee to execute.
Allowing thee not onely worldly substance,
For thy aduancement fore the face of men,
But honorable tytle and preheminence,
Ouer all other people where and when
Different Causes are to be decided,
That by thy wisdome all may well be giuded.
For thy aduancement fore the face of men,
But honorable tytle and preheminence,
Ouer all other people where and when
Different Causes are to be decided,
That by thy wisdome all may well be giuded.
A swell in Controuersies and debates,
As in disorders toward King and land,
Comitted by outragious runagates,
Rebellious Traytours or any other man,
Thy golden wisdome is with grace enamelld,
Wherefore we craue thee here to be inpannel'd.
As in disorders toward King and land,
Comitted by outragious runagates,
Rebellious Traytours or any other man,
Thy golden wisdome is with grace enamelld,
Wherefore we craue thee here to be inpannel'd.
Zealous Patron.
Patterne of Pitey which with trembling feare,
Most willingly to house of God repairest:
Attentiuely his holy word to heare,
Spreading abroad thy braunches with the fairest.
And hauing taken talent from the Lord,
Dost not the same within the ground vphord.
Most willingly to house of God repairest:
Attentiuely his holy word to heare,
Spreading abroad thy braunches with the fairest.
And hauing taken talent from the Lord,
Dost not the same within the ground vphord.
But makest vse of euery part thereof,
Not putting Candle vnderneath a couer:
As doth the Carelesse seruant with a scoffe,
Concealing heauenly secrets from his brother.
All thy delight is in the house of prayer
Thy contemplations sound into the ayer.
Not putting Candle vnderneath a couer:
As doth the Carelesse seruant with a scoffe,
Concealing heauenly secrets from his brother.
All thy delight is in the house of prayer
Thy contemplations sound into the ayer.
Thou sittest not in an vn-Godly seat,
Nor yet thou standest in the sinners way,
Thou art elect of God the Lord so great,
As Chosen veslell him thou dost obey,
Studying each time, each hower, each day, and night,
How to find out the heauenly pathes aright.
Nor yet thou standest in the sinners way,
Thou art elect of God the Lord so great,
As Chosen veslell him thou dost obey,
Studying each time, each hower, each day, and night,
How to find out the heauenly pathes aright.
Thou standst in feild vnder the Crosse of Christ,
In his defence and seruice euery hower:
Vnmoueable and firme there doth consist,
Thy faith in God acknowledging his Power.
Grace light vpon thee stand in Gods defence,
Gainst sinfull wight to heare the euidence.
In his defence and seruice euery hower:
Vnmoueable and firme there doth consist,
Thy faith in God acknowledging his Power.
Grace light vpon thee stand in Gods defence,
Gainst sinfull wight to heare the euidence.
Faithfull Minister.
Heauenly Phisition for the feeble soule,
Ministring Phisicke of a pleasant tast:
Of comfortable hearbes spirituall,
Excerped from the Godly gardens wast,
Clothing that naked soule in Godly rayment,
Thou shalt receiue an heauenly seat for payment.
Ministring Phisicke of a pleasant tast:
Of comfortable hearbes spirituall,
Excerped from the Godly gardens wast,
Clothing that naked soule in Godly rayment,
Thou shalt receiue an heauenly seat for payment.
Thy silly flocks in plesant pastures greene,
Goe feeding, fat, and full of Choysed flowers:
Not penn'd nor pounded in a pinfold keene,
Yet still defended from the rauening powers,
In spight of Romish sheppard and his traine,
Thou grazest with them on the pleasant plaine.
Goe feeding, fat, and full of Choysed flowers:
Not penn'd nor pounded in a pinfold keene,
Yet still defended from the rauening powers,
In spight of Romish sheppard and his traine,
Thou grazest with them on the pleasant plaine.
Thou leadst them not among the thornes and briers
Tearing their fleeces, neither dost permit:
Their carcases to sticke in clammy myers,
They walke secure from deepe and daungerous pit,
Then guid we pray thee with thy sheppards hooke,
Those of this Iurie from a partiall Crooke.
Tearing their fleeces, neither dost permit:
Their carcases to sticke in clammy myers,
They walke secure from deepe and daungerous pit,
Then guid we pray thee with thy sheppards hooke,
Those of this Iurie from a partiall Crooke.
Take place among them, passe thy Iudgement freely,
According as thou find'st the guiltie mate:
Sift out and search their crafty dealings neerely,
That being opened men may see the state.
Wherein these foule and execrable Crew,
Haue liued in spight of other men and you.
According as thou find'st the guiltie mate:
Sift out and search their crafty dealings neerely,
That being opened men may see the state.
Wherein these foule and execrable Crew,
Haue liued in spight of other men and you.
Godly Magistrate.
Like wall to Cittie in a Godly care,
Thou dost encompasse those the which thou guidest
Vpholding them in truth and virtue rare,
And from that forme and order neuer slidest,
Whip to disordred, riotous and rude,
Crowne, to the Godly, virtuous and good.
Thou dost encompasse those the which thou guidest
Vpholding them in truth and virtue rare,
And from that forme and order neuer slidest,
Whip to disordred, riotous and rude,
Crowne, to the Godly, virtuous and good.
Within thy liberty thou dost forecast,
To benefit the place wherein thou dwellest:
And all with plenty still thou surely hast
Vicious and wicked members thou expellest.
Weeding out cleane the Couchy stinking weed,
That faine within the ground would shed her seed.
To benefit the place wherein thou dwellest:
And all with plenty still thou surely hast
Vicious and wicked members thou expellest.
Weeding out cleane the Couchy stinking weed,
That faine within the ground would shed her seed.
To the sicke-man most apt th'art to extend
Thy Phisicke, therewithall to raise him vp:
To lame thou art a Crouch, an eye to blind,
The feeble Creatures Comfortable cup.
The orphans poore thou houerest with thy wings,
From the extortioners accursed stinges.
Thy Phisicke, therewithall to raise him vp:
To lame thou art a Crouch, an eye to blind,
The feeble Creatures Comfortable cup.
The orphans poore thou houerest with thy wings,
From the extortioners accursed stinges.
Now in this Iury we most surely meane,
That thou support and ayd vs with thy helpe
As the fift ballaster wheron we leane,
For punishment of wanton foolish whelpe.
Vnruly Creatures are so sprung and growne,
That of necessity they must be mowen.
That thou support and ayd vs with thy helpe
As the fift ballaster wheron we leane,
For punishment of wanton foolish whelpe.
Vnruly Creatures are so sprung and growne,
That of necessity they must be mowen.
Loyall Subiect.
In trew obedience and loyalty,
With tendrest care of Princes will performing:
To peoples good and Princes royallty,
Pretended mischiefes still thou art reforming.
Most ready th'art to shew and eke to doe,
Thy best endeauour to giue Cæsars due.
With tendrest care of Princes will performing:
To peoples good and Princes royallty,
Pretended mischiefes still thou art reforming.
Most ready th'art to shew and eke to doe,
Thy best endeauour to giue Cæsars due.
With might and maine continuall vigilancie,
Still prest to armes and ready in pursewing
The trayterous hart full stuft with arrogancie,
To that corrupt harts downefall and vndoing.
Ready to boult and prudently to sift,
Their secret treason and their Crafty shift,
Still prest to armes and ready in pursewing
The trayterous hart full stuft with arrogancie,
To that corrupt harts downefall and vndoing.
Ready to boult and prudently to sift,
Their secret treason and their Crafty shift,
To patefie the Erronious sectes and schismes,
Which are so blazd and sowne in many places:
Heretecall vnfaithfull Atheismes,
And treasons toward Kings imperiall graces,
Vpholding state of land and Iustice seat,
Thou dost abandon each disloyall feate.
Which are so blazd and sowne in many places:
Heretecall vnfaithfull Atheismes,
And treasons toward Kings imperiall graces,
Vpholding state of land and Iustice seat,
Thou dost abandon each disloyall feate.
In this high court or session for reproofe,
Of domyneering ill disordred mate:
Thou art elected one in the behoofe,
Of heauenly throne and high celestiall state,
To giue thy Censure with vnfained heart,
Gainst malefactious knaue for his desart.
Of domyneering ill disordred mate:
Thou art elected one in the behoofe,
Of heauenly throne and high celestiall state,
To giue thy Censure with vnfained heart,
Gainst malefactious knaue for his desart.
Charitable Benefactor.
Thou which with pitty in thy heart art moued,
Towards the needy soule with care oppressed,
Thou blest of God, of earthly men beloued,
For helping of the Orphan so distressed.
Comforting widdowes, saluing sick-mans sore,
Aiding the simple, with fall of thy store.
Towards the needy soule with care oppressed,
Thou blest of God, of earthly men beloued,
For helping of the Orphan so distressed.
Comforting widdowes, saluing sick-mans sore,
Aiding the simple, with fall of thy store.
Not as a greedy mizer which doth hoord,
All in his cofers till his day of dying.
And at the last like cormorant absurd,
Is forced to distribute bed-rid lying.
But art with willing heart in readinesse,
Apt to redresse the poore mans needinesse.
All in his cofers till his day of dying.
And at the last like cormorant absurd,
Is forced to distribute bed-rid lying.
But art with willing heart in readinesse,
Apt to redresse the poore mans needinesse.
We want thy helping hand to ayde vs here,
Being in place appointed for redresse
Of impious wrongs against the country deare:
Heauen graunt vs fauour, fortune, and successe
To prime away the foggie mowldring mosse,
Ore-growing fruitfull tree with filthy drosse.
Being in place appointed for redresse
Of impious wrongs against the country deare:
Heauen graunt vs fauour, fortune, and successe
To prime away the foggie mowldring mosse,
Ore-growing fruitfull tree with filthy drosse.
Spend now some time to honor of thy Lord,
The countries wealth, and subiects peacefull liuing?
In heauen thou shalt be paid, thy whole reward,
Thou shalt haue peoples praises and thanksgiuing.
With worldly wealth the Lord hath thee endued,
When by himselfe the wicked were pursued.
The countries wealth, and subiects peacefull liuing?
In heauen thou shalt be paid, thy whole reward,
Thou shalt haue peoples praises and thanksgiuing.
With worldly wealth the Lord hath thee endued,
When by himselfe the wicked were pursued.
Carefull Parent.
To heauens glory, and terrestriall ioy,
The heauenly father, father to vs all,
Created man, and Sathan to annoy,
Hath by his sonne releast him from his thrall.
Onely to worke saluation for that creature,
Which is of his proportion face and feature.
The heauenly father, father to vs all,
Created man, and Sathan to annoy,
Hath by his sonne releast him from his thrall.
Onely to worke saluation for that creature,
Which is of his proportion face and feature.
Thou vnderstanding wherfore thou wert framed,
Hast sowne the godly seed of purpose culled,
To breaking of the wanton child vntamed,
When by perswasion he would not be ruled,
And hast in godly nurture traind him vp,
From tasting of the Romish damned cup.
Hast sowne the godly seed of purpose culled,
To breaking of the wanton child vntamed,
When by perswasion he would not be ruled,
And hast in godly nurture traind him vp,
From tasting of the Romish damned cup.
Instructing him in a religious kinde,
In knowledge of the heauenly fathers will:
Prouoking him, and putting in his minde,
The holy Scriptures that he may fulfill,
The duty that he oweth to God aboue,
To liue with neighbours in vnfeined loue.
In knowledge of the heauenly fathers will:
Prouoking him, and putting in his minde,
The holy Scriptures that he may fulfill,
The duty that he oweth to God aboue,
To liue with neighbours in vnfeined loue.
It is most fitting thou shouldst take a place,
To heare and to determine euery fault
Which is committed by the brazen face,
Of shamelesse rascall which is good for naught.
Their cheats and cousenages are abroad so plenty,
Of grace and goodnes world's euen almost emptie.
To heare and to determine euery fault
Which is committed by the brazen face,
Of shamelesse rascall which is good for naught.
Their cheats and cousenages are abroad so plenty,
Of grace and goodnes world's euen almost emptie.
Obedient Childe.
In honor, loue, and true obedience,
Towards thy Parents dutifull and kinde:
Thou hast endeuoured with dilligence,
To be submissiue and of lowly minde.
All to enlarge, encrease, and to prolong,
Thy happy dayes, (as heauenly Fathers tongue.
Towards thy Parents dutifull and kinde:
Thou hast endeuoured with dilligence,
To be submissiue and of lowly minde.
All to enlarge, encrease, and to prolong,
Thy happy dayes, (as heauenly Fathers tongue.
Hath openly vpon the Mount declared,
In the pronouncing of his holy lawes:)
The path to heauens kingdome is prepared,
For thee to walke, suppressing hellish clawes.
Which haue beene raking at the heauens anointed,
To walke the pathes forbidden and vnappointed.
In the pronouncing of his holy lawes:)
The path to heauens kingdome is prepared,
For thee to walke, suppressing hellish clawes.
Which haue beene raking at the heauens anointed,
To walke the pathes forbidden and vnappointed.
Meeke in behauiour, courteous in speech,
Lowly and reuerent to all thy betters:
Orderly giuen, loth for to impeach
Thy nurture, being train'd in godly letters.
Heauens dew be-water that young tender plant,
A sweet encrease God grant it neuer want.
Lowly and reuerent to all thy betters:
Orderly giuen, loth for to impeach
Thy nurture, being train'd in godly letters.
Heauens dew be-water that young tender plant,
A sweet encrease God grant it neuer want.
That as a second Daniell it foresee,
And prye into deceitfull false deuises:
Of false accusing Elders, and to be
A Iudge to punish such bad enterprises,
As are committed by a damned sect,
Of togues and vagabounds the Hels elect.
And prye into deceitfull false deuises:
Of false accusing Elders, and to be
A Iudge to punish such bad enterprises,
As are committed by a damned sect,
Of togues and vagabounds the Hels elect.
Sure Friend.
Not like Thirsites enuious and repining,
In maledictious order thou hast liued:
But prone and ready still to be adioyning,
In friendly amitie and neuer grieued.
To be a loyal and true hearted friend,
In case of charge assured to the end.
In maledictious order thou hast liued:
But prone and ready still to be adioyning,
In friendly amitie and neuer grieued.
To be a loyal and true hearted friend,
In case of charge assured to the end.
Damon by right and title thou art called,
For to the last to Pithias thou didst stand:
Before the tyrant proffering to be haled,
For him to death, and gau'st that tyrant band
For his forth-comming, which had he but slackt,
Thy selfe for him had beene most surely rackt.
For to the last to Pithias thou didst stand:
Before the tyrant proffering to be haled,
For him to death, and gau'st that tyrant band
For his forth-comming, which had he but slackt,
Thy selfe for him had beene most surely rackt.
Thou hast not with blanditious flatteries,
Soothd vp thy friend in hope of any gaine:
Giuing faire words, and turning them to mockeries
Tainting thy conscience then to worke him paine.
But rather then to make thy friend a pray,
Thy selfe thou hast endangered many away.
Soothd vp thy friend in hope of any gaine:
Giuing faire words, and turning them to mockeries
Tainting thy conscience then to worke him paine.
But rather then to make thy friend a pray,
Thy selfe thou hast endangered many away.
Caring for conscience how thou maist vphold,
It guiltlesse of reuealing secret things:
Most willing thou hast beene still to vnfold,
The mischiefe which to friend a mischiefe brings.
Then in this friendly knot come take a place,
To heauens glory, and to hells disgrace.
It guiltlesse of reuealing secret things:
Most willing thou hast beene still to vnfold,
The mischiefe which to friend a mischiefe brings.
Then in this friendly knot come take a place,
To heauens glory, and to hells disgrace.
Peace-maker.
Troubled in minde at each dissentious sound,
Or motion of thy neighbours disagreeing:
Thy chiefest care hath beene to find the ground,
Of all their discord, studying and foreseeing
The way to make an vniuersall peace,
To bring the factious hearts to quietnesse.
Or motion of thy neighbours disagreeing:
Thy chiefest care hath beene to find the ground,
Of all their discord, studying and foreseeing
The way to make an vniuersall peace,
To bring the factious hearts to quietnesse.
Who from the rootes of enuies hatefull branches,
Haue practised the most accurst deuises:
Each against other plotting of mischances,
To breed contentions and detested vices.
Causing not onely worldly expence and charges,
But secret malice, which soules paine inlarges.
Haue practised the most accurst deuises:
Each against other plotting of mischances,
To breed contentions and detested vices.
Causing not onely worldly expence and charges,
But secret malice, which soules paine inlarges.
Most worthy thou in the superior place,
Bearing the title of the Child of God
Shouldst haue beene set disposing of that grace,
Committed to thee for reproofe, of odde
Disordred creatures, foule and naughty doings,
Delighting falshood, theft, and blood imbrewings.
Bearing the title of the Child of God
Shouldst haue beene set disposing of that grace,
Committed to thee for reproofe, of odde
Disordred creatures, foule and naughty doings,
Delighting falshood, theft, and blood imbrewings.
In heauens seruice to the Fathers peace,
For executing Iustice, and vpholding
Of truth: and for the punishment of vice,
In iustice seat we place thee at vnfolding
Of those disorderly accursed slights,
As haue beene vsed by vntamed wights.
For executing Iustice, and vpholding
Of truth: and for the punishment of vice,
In iustice seat we place thee at vnfolding
Of those disorderly accursed slights,
As haue beene vsed by vntamed wights.
Lowly minded.
Not surlie Pompous, scornfull foolish proud,
Though not of base house, stocke or parents sprung,
But lowly minded, meeke, and of a good
And kinde behauiour, with a gentle tongue.
Ready to bowe to mighty Potentates,
And humble to the poore and meaner states.
Though not of base house, stocke or parents sprung,
But lowly minded, meeke, and of a good
And kinde behauiour, with a gentle tongue.
Ready to bowe to mighty Potentates,
And humble to the poore and meaner states.
A worthy brother not to be abiected,
From the societie and godly knot,
(In heauens behalfe) of Iewrie here elected,
And now impannelled, hardly to be got.
Seeke all the world for twelue such other more,
Youl' neuer find them in the earthly store.
From the societie and godly knot,
(In heauens behalfe) of Iewrie here elected,
And now impannelled, hardly to be got.
Seeke all the world for twelue such other more,
Youl' neuer find them in the earthly store.
Therefore to Court and councell let vs hie vs,
Their guilty persons shall be all brought in:
Like Iustice sword my whip shall here stand by vs,
To take sir Rogue and Rascall by the skinne,
Come knaues and wretched whores with all your traine
Ile lead you trench-more to another straine.
Their guilty persons shall be all brought in:
Like Iustice sword my whip shall here stand by vs,
To take sir Rogue and Rascall by the skinne,
Come knaues and wretched whores with all your traine
Ile lead you trench-more to another straine.
Downe with your Triggens, ho me thinks you leap
Already round and capring on the toe:
How fine youl' iumpe when you behold my whip,
Ile cleach you soundly all before you go.
Ile teach you th'capers and the antick iumpes,
Put off your gaskins, quick, put on your pumpes.
Already round and capring on the toe:
How fine youl' iumpe when you behold my whip,
Ile cleach you soundly all before you go.
Ile teach you th'capers and the antick iumpes,
Put off your gaskins, quick, put on your pumpes.
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