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            <title>De sordenada codicia de los bienes agenos. English</title>
            <author>García, Carlos, doctor.</author>
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            <p>THE
SONNE OF
THE ROGVE,
<hi>OR</hi>
THE POLITICK
THEEFE.
WITH THE AN<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>TIQVITIE
OF
THEEVES.</p>
            <p>A worke no lesse Curious
then delectable; first written
in <hi>Spanish</hi> by <hi>DON
GARCIA.</hi>
Afterwards translated into
<hi>Dutch,</hi> and then into <hi>French</hi>
by <hi>S. D.</hi>
Now <hi>Englished</hi> by <hi>W. M.</hi>
            </p>
            <p>
               <hi>LONDON,</hi>
Printed by <hi>I. D</hi> for <hi>Michael Sparkes</hi>
and are to sold in <hi>Green-Arbor,
1638</hi>
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         <div type="preface">
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            <head>The Preface to the
Reader.</head>
            <p>
               <seg rend="decorInit">M</seg>Ens naturall in<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>clination
is al<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>wayes
prone
and addicted to so great
rashnesse, that though
vice of it selfe is so abo<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>minable
&amp; blame-wor<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>thy,
notwithstanding
there be too many who
openly praise it, and ac<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>count
it their honour to
practise it. Thence it co<g ref="char:cmbAbbrStroke">̄</g>
               <g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>meth
to passe that theft,
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being a pernicious vice
and forbidden by the
Lawes, doth not cease to
be followed by many,
who to defend them<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>selves
from the reproa<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ches
which may be laid
against them, alleage that
the <hi>Lacedemonians</hi> a peo<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ple
very severe and just,
permitted the use there<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>of
to their youth; that the
<hi>Aegyptians</hi> held those for
able men that could steal
best. That for the same
subject the Poets in
their writings have brag<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ged
of the subtilty of
<hi>Mercurius,</hi> and of the
cunning of the god<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>desse
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               <hi>Laverna</hi> who was
the Theeves Patronesse.
Briefly, that this profes<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>sion
is made commenda<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ble
by the crafty trickes
of many that have exer<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>cised
it, such as were <hi>Pro<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>metheus</hi>
the father of <hi>Deu<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>calion,
Cacus</hi> and <hi>Autolicu<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>,</hi>
the one the son of <hi>Vulcan</hi>
and the other of <hi>Mercurie,
Arsaces</hi> King of the <hi>Par<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>
                  <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>hians,
Denis</hi> Tyrant of <hi>Sici<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>
                  <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>ie,</hi>
The Emperour <hi>Nero,
Leo</hi> sonne of <hi>Constantine
Copronimus, Fulvius, Flaccus
Censor, Ninus</hi> King of <hi>Ae<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>gipt,</hi>
to whom <hi>Iustin</hi> ascri<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>beth
the invention of so
fine a trade, and a great
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many others with wh<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                  <desc>•</desc>
               </gap>
the books of Authors are
filled. To which we may
adde, that even the most
understanding men are
not free from this vice, <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                  <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
               </gap>
it be eertaine (as saith
<hi>Simplicius)</hi> that the Prince
of the Peripatetiques <hi>(A<g ref="char:EOLunhyphen"/>ristotle)</hi>
stole that which
he hath from the most
excellent of those that
went before him. That
<hi>Virgil</hi> drew all his richest
inventions from <hi>Homor,
Hesiod</hi> and <hi>Theocritus,</hi> and
that <hi>Cicero</hi> boldly furnish<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                  <desc>•</desc>
               </gap>
himselfe with the do<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ctrine
of the <hi>Stoiques Aca<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>demiques</hi>
and <hi>Epicures.</hi>
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But for all this, it can<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>not
be but that naturall
reason must put downe
all these vaine opinions,
because according to <hi>A<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>quinas,</hi>
Theft is quite co<g ref="char:cmbAbbrStroke">̄</g>
               <g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>trary
to that love which
we owe to our Neigh<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>bours,
and with-all to
Gods Law and mans
Law. And to this effect
beside that in <hi>Exodus</hi> and
<hi>Leviticus</hi> it is expresly for<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>bidden,
it is yet also de<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>tested
by the Apostle S.
<hi>Paul,</hi> where speaking to
the <hi>Ephesians</hi> he saith, <hi>Let
him that stole steale no more:
but let him rather labour and
worke with his hands.</hi> Also
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the people of old taking
notice of this truth or<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>dained
against Theeves
severall<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                  <desc>•</desc>
               </gap> sorts of punish<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ments,
especially the <hi>Gre<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>cians</hi>
&amp; the <hi>Athenians,</hi> as <hi>Lu<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>dovicus
Vives</hi> doth very we<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                  <desc>•</desc>
               </gap>
observe, who saith that
the Emperor <hi>Frederick</hi>
the third was the first
that condemned them to
the Gallies: <hi>Ovid</hi> speakes
to this purpose that <hi>Scy<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ron</hi>
one of the renowned
Theeves of his time was
thrown head-long into
the sea by <hi>Theseus, Procru<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>stes</hi>
kill'd by <hi>Hercules</hi> and
<hi>Sysiphus</hi> cut in peeces. <hi>Vir<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>gil</hi>
that <hi>Pedant Balista</hi> was
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stoned for his thefts; and
the divine <hi>Arious,</hi> that
the King <hi>Agrement</hi>
caused <hi>Brunellus</hi> the cun<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ningest
Thiefe that ever
was to be hang'd for ha<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ving
boldly stollen <hi>Ang<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>
                  <g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>licus</hi>
Ring and <hi>Scripants</hi>
horse. I passe all the o<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ther
examples that I
might alleage: to tell you
in a word, good Rea<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>der,
that this booke
discourseth not here so
much of the Antiquitie
of Theeves and of their
cunning slights, as to
teach thee to eschew
them, for if it be true that
he wounds of Darts
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which are foreseene
from farre, are not so
hurtfull as those which
are shot at us unawares.
I assure my selfe that the
Reader will use it as an
instrument to avoide
the snares which leud
fellowes ordinarily lay
for honest men,</p>
            <closer>Farewel.</closer>
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            <head>THE
ANTIQIVTIE
OF THEEVES</head>
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               <head>CHAP. I.</head>
               <head type="sub">In which the Author compa<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>reth
the miseries of Prison
to the paines of Hell.<note place="margin">The Au<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>thor would not haue beene so vehement, had he been in one of our English prisons, which for the most part are made rather places of ease and delight then pu<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>nishment.</note>
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                  <seg rend="decorInit">T</seg>He terror of Hell
which is set forth
to us in holy Wri<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>tings,
doth so re<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>semble
to us the miseries
which are endured in prison,
that if this had not that hope
which th' other wanteth we
might attribute unto it the
title of a true Hell, seeing
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that in this which is most
proper to them, the one and
the other haue a mutuall and
full correspondence, which
maketh me to wonder much
at the vnprofitable diligence
with which some late writers
distill their brain's to finde
the meanes how they may
properly represent unto the
world the horrour of that
terrible mansion, when they
might have attained to the
end of their purpose in shew<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ing
onely the desperate life
which people suffer in pri<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>son,
which shall be perfitly
knowne with its extreame
miserie, if first of all we par<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ticularly
treate of the tor<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ments
which are perpetually
exercised in Hell.</p>
               <p>The Authors, who write
upon this subject, bring the
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paines of Hell to two points;
the first and chiefe of which
is their depriving from the
essence of God, which they
call essentiall paine, it being
that, which properly con<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>taineth
all the torments that
can be imagined in Hel. And
that same is so extreame and
so cruell, that if the soule had
in the other world as many
pleasures and contentments
as the thought of man could
imagine, being deprived of
God, it could not have any
thing which had one onely
shadow of comfort. Because
that God being the roote and
the fountaine of all good<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>nesse,
and all contentments
and delights, which are in
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>he world being stored up in
him alone, it is evident that
with him the soule shall have
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all consolation which is pos<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>sible
to be imagined and that
without him it shall be plun<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ged
into a bottomlesse depth
of sorrow &amp; confusion, with
which and with the certain<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ty
that it hath, that its griefes
shall never be ended, it cur<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>seth
its being, its birth and
its life.</p>
               <p>The other paine which the
damned suffer in Hell is the
accidentall paine, so called
because it is joyned to the
former as an accident, which
serveth to make the appre<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>hension
of the damned more
sensible, throwing them
headlong into the bitter
sight of their miserie. To
this is joyned the detestable
companie of Divells, the
horrible and frightfull lod<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ging,
the<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap> severall kindes of
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torments, the continuall la<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>mentations,
the disorder, the
confusion, the fire, the brim<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>stone,
the darkenesse and a
thousand other afflictions, of
which, and of the depriving
of Gods being and presence,
that wretched and perpetuall
Hell is composed.</p>
               <p>And as touching the varie<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>tie
of officers, that beare rule
in this darke dungeon; wee
know already that in that
great battell which Saint
<hi>Michael</hi> th' Archangell
had against <hi>Lucifer,</hi> for the
throne and the glory of the
Creator, not onely the same
<hi>Lucifer</hi> fell from Heaven,
and from the highest of his
perfection to the lowest and
hollowest gulfes of Hell<g ref="char:punc">▪</g> but
also a great number of evill
angells with him, who were
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copartners with him in his
rash and accursed purpose.
And these although they do
equally partake with him in
the paine essentiall, which is
being deprived of God, have
neverthelesse some diffe<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>rence
amongst themselves:
whether it be that everyone
is of one kind, as saith a
Doctor of the Church, or
whether for that they had
more or lesse consent in his
malice. Because that with<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>out
doubt those who obsti<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>natly
defended the pride of
<hi>Lucifer</hi> fell with him into
the deepest place of the earth
which is the center of the
the world where divines doe
place Hell. And those who
were not so vehement; but
onely approved his purpose
with a certaine and determi<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>nate
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fellow-liking, fell not
so low: I will say that the
accidentall paine of them
was not so great as that of
these others. And of this sort
the accidentall paine of these
spirits was made severall ac<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>cording
to the degrees of the
malice which they had in
their sinne. And though that
in Hell there is no order, as
<hi>Iob</hi> saith; there is notwith<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>standing
a certaine govern<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ment
and order among these
spirits vnder-placed and di<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>vided
into severall com<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>panies
with diverse degrees
and qualities. So as the good
Angells in the heavenly
<hi>Ierusalem</hi> are divided by
their order into Angells,
Archangells, Thrones,
Powers, Cherubins, Sera<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>phins,
and other holy
dignities.</p>
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All the Legions of Divel<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
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which fell from Heaven re<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>mained
subject to the Arch-angell
<hi>Michael,</hi> who hath
commandement and empire
over them all. As also accor<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ding
to some mens opinions,
every good Angell of
Princes hath commande<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ment
over one Legion. And
beside the obedience which
all of them owe to Saint
<hi>Michael,</hi> as to their Captaine
Generall vnder God, they
have also among them their
Prince of malice, to whom
they are subject and obey,
and upon him depend diverse
Liev<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>tenants and Gover<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>nors,
who wholly divide the
governement of all the hel<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>lish
malice, every one of
them having vnder his
charge the disposing and
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good order of his band.
Neither lesse nor more than
in a well ordered Campe,
where there is a great mul<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>titude
of Souldiers, the
body of the armie is divi<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ded
into severall Regiments,
as are the Generall, the
Camp-master, Captaines,
Ensignes, Sergeants; Cor<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>poralls
and others of this
sort, who order the Soul<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>diers
and the armie. And as
there are sundry Offices of
these, some being foot<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
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others horse, some Musque<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ters,
others Pikemen, and
finally of severall employ<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ments:
there are also among
the evill spirits severall Offi<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ces
and places, some temp<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ting
by Covetousnesse, o<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>thers
by Riotousnesse, o<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>thers
by Ambition, and final<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ly<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>
                  <pb n="10" facs="tcp:27231:11"/>
every particular sinne
hath its appointed and de<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>terminate
Officers, having
all of them equally; one
onely end and scope to car<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>rie
soules to Hell.</p>
               <p>In this Divellish armie
there are some Div<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>ls, that
never come out of Hell, but
are evermore shut up within
it, receiving the soules which
enter in thither, and giving to
them a place and kinde of
torment which their sinnes
deserve. There are others
who are ever wandring, <hi>c<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                        <desc>•</desc>
                     </gap>m<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>passing
the earth to and fro,</hi>
and searching for soules to
carrie them into Hel. Never<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>thelesse
let no man thinke
that these have any power
o<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap> authoritie to beare away
one soule to Hell, nor these
others to shut up in their
<pb n="11" facs="tcp:27231:11"/>
darke dennes, vnlesse it be
by the expresse commande<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ment
and particular com<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>mission
of God. And so
much concerning these hel<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>lish
Officer<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>.</p>
               <p>As for its largenesse, it is
such, that all sorts of sin<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>full
soules enter into Hell,
and it is ordinarily full
fraughted and peopled with
Blasphemers, Perjur'd per<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>sons,
Murtherers, Adulte<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>rers,
Envious persons, and
to conclude with all sorts
of Evill-doers: who al<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>though
they have in com<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>mon
the essentiall paine,
which is the wanting of
God, and are all of them in
Hell, yet they have severall
roomes and torments accor<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ding
to everie ones deser<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ving,
sithence it is certaine
<pb n="12" facs="tcp:27231:12"/>
that the paine of him that
oweth little shall not be so
great at all as the paine of
him that oweth much, and
that the just Iudge chastiseth
and recompense<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>h every one
according as he deserveth.</p>
               <p>To all this varietie is added
the extreme confusion of
Hell, the disorder, the vn<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>quietnesse,
the vnrulie cari<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>age,
and con<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>in ualagitation,
with which they are alwaies
tormented, seeing it is evi<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>dent,
that where rage and
despaire reigneth, there can
be no friendly fellowship
nor agreement.</p>
               <p>This estate, practise &amp; dis<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>position
of the horrible pit of
this hellish lodging is the live<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ly
pourtraict of that despe<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>rate
life, which men suffer in
prison, in which the beholder
<pb n="13" facs="tcp:27231:12"/>
shal find so in tire &amp; so mutu<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>all
a correspondence that
there is not almost any other
difference between them but
in the name. Because that first
to the essentiall paine of Hel,
which is the depriving of
Gods powerful presence, the
want of liberty hath corres<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>pondence,
which with a just
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>i<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>le we may cal a paine essen<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>tiall,
for so much as it is the
queen of al the apprehe<g ref="char:cmbAbbrStroke">̄</g>sions
&amp; motives of sorrow, which
are able to afflict a good wit.</p>
               <p>And as in that, the soule
being deprived of God, it is
also deprived of all worldly
pleasures, even so in this (to
wit in prison) it enjoyeth
not any thing which hath
the least shadow of content.
Because that although a pri<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>soner
were clothed with pur<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>Purple,
<pb n="14" facs="tcp:27231:13"/>
served as a King, fed
with the most delicate vi<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>tailes
of the world, his
Chamber hang'd with
cloth of gold, that hee
were entertained with all
sort of Musicke, visited by
his parents and friends, all
this, nor all that could be de<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>sired
more could bring him
any kinde of comfort. On
the contrary he should have
lesse, because that all things
availe nothing but to awa<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ken
his appetite and make
him desire that which others
enjoy, and to which he can<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>not
attaine. Whenceprocee<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>deth
the increasing of his
want (of libertie) and con<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>sequently
his paine.</p>
               <p>The harshnesse and force
of depriving (of libertie)
may be easily, known by its
<pb n="15" facs="tcp:27231:13"/>
contrarie, this being infalli<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ble
that the depriving of one
thing shall be by so much
evill as the possession of it
shall be good. And libertie
being the most precious
Iewell of the soule, and the
greatest perfection, which
the vnbounded Author of
this, hath engrafted in
the reasonable creature; it
is certaine that the depriving
thereof shall be the most
crosse and vnsufferable of all
others. That libertie is that
which guideth and directe<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>h
mans actions to diverse ends,
without enforcing them and
with pleasure, choosing, and
commanding, experience
teacheth this, in which the
supreme work-master would
distinguish man from other
living creatures, whose end
<pb n="16" facs="tcp:27231:14"/>
obtaineth by a naturall in<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>stinct,
which leadeth them, as
by a bridle, to the appetite
and delight in it, and that it is
so powerfull, and maketh
man so absolute, that his vn<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>derstanding
having propo<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>sed
the good, the perfect, the
honest and the delectable, he
may resolve with himselfe
to love it or not to love it
at all, sith that none but God
may aske a reason of this so
absolute commandement,
Naturall Philosophie telleth
it. Whence and from many
other reasons, which I could
bring, it is clearely perceived
that there is not any thing
in the world, to which the
essentiall paine of Hell can
more properly be compa<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>red,
than to the depriving of
libertie, seeing it bringeth
<pb n="17" facs="tcp:27231:14"/>
man to such extremitie, that
he abhorreth himselfe, his
being, his ranke, and his
estate.</p>
               <p>He knoweth well this truth
which I write, who hath
sometimes beene in prison,
laded with chaines and with
irons, subject to the rage of
that terrible abode, cursing
(though Noble and well
borne) his being, his condi<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>tion
and Noblenesse, grie<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ving
to be that which he is,
and wishing to be a great
deale meaner. In midst of
which despaire hee envieth
the peaceable condition and
tranquillity, of the Com<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>mons,
and could wish to
have beene borne of the
most base dregs of the peo<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ple.
He curseth his actions
and his studies, the points of
<pb n="18" facs="tcp:27231:15"/>
honour which his parents
taught him, the vnderstan<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ding
which he hath, thinking
with himselfe, that if he were
a privat man, he should not
at all see himselfe in so mise<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>rable
and so extreame a per<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>plexitie,
and that this would
not be litle enough for him,
if despaire left him amongst
the folke of that same sort
and nature: but it goeth on
refining and consuming him
in the fire of impatience, in
such sort, that it draweth
him out of his reasonable
being, and bringeth him to
that of a brute beast, and to
the most base and infinite
kindes of them, that groa<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ning
for libertie, he envieth
the bird that flieth, the Dog
that barketh, the Pismire
that travelleth, and desireth
<pb n="19" facs="tcp:27231:15"/>
to be one of them. And the
venome of this fierce beast
stayeth not there, for tying
harder the cords of a poore
prisoner, it draweth him out
of the ranke and file of li<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ving
creatures, making him
desire to be a tree, an image
or a stone, bringing him to
nothing, and making him
bewaile that ever hee was
borne in the world. By
which it is clearely seene
that the want of liberty ma<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>king
so unhappy a change
in man, as to throw him
headlong from the highest &amp;
most perfect of his inclinati<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>on
and appetite, to the basest
and lowest, and from the
image and likenesse of God,
to nothing; this is the most
strong and most rigorous
paine that can be imagined,
<pb n="20" facs="tcp:27231:16"/>
and that which truely doth
better represent the essential
paine of Hell.</p>
               <p>To the accidentall paine
doe correspond the innu<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>merable
afflictions and cala<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>mities,
which follow the de<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>priving
of libertie, amongst
which are the stinke of the
prison, the disorderly frame
of the buildings, the defa<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>med
companie, the continu<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>all
and huge lewd voices, the
diversitie of nations, the dif<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>fering
humors, the shame,
the persecution, the dif<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>grace,
the mocquerie, the
crueltie, the blowes, the tor<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ments,
the poverty and the
miseries without number,
which are suffered in prison,
of the which, and of other
depriving of libertie the
lively patterne of Hell is
<pb n="21" facs="tcp:27231:16"/>
framed and composed.</p>
               <p>As touching the execu<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>tioners
and officers, no man
will deny but that all the
earth is full of incarnat
Divells, more obstinate and
more accursed in their kinde
than those of Hell, the most
part of them being fallen, as
<hi>Lucifer</hi> and his followers,
from the Heaven of honour.
I will say that for the deser<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ving,
and sinnes which they
have committed, the Angell
Saint <hi>Michael,</hi> who is the
Iustice, hath drawne them
from the fellowship and
dwelling of the good, and
they seeing themselves bea<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ten
downe and dishonoured,
have taken vpon them the
office of Divels, to avenge
themselves of the poore in<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>nocent
soules, running day
<pb n="22" facs="tcp:27231:17"/>
&amp; night thorow the streets,
markets and publike places
of the Citie, smelling out
and searching for people to
lay them in prison. And these
are they who commonly are
called Sergeants, who drag
a poore man to prison with
such rage and tyrannie, as
these in the perpetuall Hell
could not utter more. And
if we be able to find any dif<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ference
betweene them, it is
this, that the Divells of Hell
fly from the signe of the
Crosse; but those of the pri<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>son
love, reverence and a<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>dore
that happy signe, in
such sort, that hee who
would deale well with them,
and somewhat turne their
rigour into a litle pitie, it is
necessarie that hee have al<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>wayes
the Crosse in his
<pb n="23" facs="tcp:27231:17"/>
hands, for at what time hee
shall leave it, they will tor<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ment
him ten times more
than his sinne can deserve:
but they having met with
him, they say a <hi>Pater noster</hi>
for the soule which they
take, untill they come to
<hi>da nobis bodie,</hi> and they goe
not at all any further.</p>
               <p>These Divells are those
who walke commonly
through the streetes, and
places of the Citie, seeking
for soules in the most secret
corners, the multitude and
trade of whom is so great,
that I doe n<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="2 letters">
                     <desc>••</desc>
                  </gap> thinke there
are more Legions of Divels
in Hell, than there be Ser<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>geants
in the Common<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>wealth.
Amongst them there
be some that goe on horse<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>backe,
who have charge to
<pb n="24" facs="tcp:27231:18"/>
travell into the Countrey,
unto places farre remote
from the Citie, and to bring
men into prison from places
most solitarie and quiet.
These, for that they being
of a more haughtie nature
than the others, we may call
Orientalls from the Region
of fire, and these are called
Archers or Messengers, the
Legion or companie of
whom hath for their Chief<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>taine
or Captaine a great
Divell whom they call
Provest.</p>
               <p>There are other Divels in
this Hell, the i<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>feriors of the
aforenamed, who goe ordi<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>narily
by tens or twenties in
a companie, disguised and
masked, to spie if they can
catch one poore soule by
treacherie, they are so
<pb n="25" facs="tcp:27231:18"/>
cowardly so effeminate and
dastardly, that they meete
sometimes to the number of
fortie and all to take one
man, and yet they dare not
adventure to take him their
selves alone, without the as<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>sistance
and aide of a
Divell with a long gown,
who vsually accompanieth
them. They goe alwayes
atter'd, torne and naked,
and this is the lowest and
most infinite Legion of all
as the Hob-goblins vnder
ground, whom the people
have beene accustomed to
call Apparitors.</p>
               <p>Every Legion of these
Divells have an infinite
number of halfe-divells
who goe disguised and co<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>vered
through the Citie,<note place="margin">Spanish apparitors what sort of people.</note> ta<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>king
notice of all that is
<pb n="26" facs="tcp:27231:19"/>
done there, with great sub<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>tiltie
and craft. They take
and change every day a
thousand formes and shapes,
shewing themselves in every
companie in a severall man<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ner;
at one occasion going
like countrey-men, in an o<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ther
like strangers, by &amp; by
of one profession, and by and
by of another. These are they
who with great sleight and
subtiltie discover the price,
after the same manner as the
lying dogs doe the par<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>tridges,
bringing the afore<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>said
Divels to the proper
place of the soule, which
they would take, and poin<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ting
it out as with the finger:
and these we call Spies, and
amongst them they are cal<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>led
Recorders.</p>
               <p>There be other Divels,
<pb n="27" facs="tcp:27231:19"/>
who are esteemed more no<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ble
and more courteous,
whose office is to repeale
penalties, commissions, re<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>quests,
to baile a soule, and
to take the burthen on them<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>selves,
answering for it every
time that the Iudge asketh
for it. And though it be in
their keeping, they give it
alwayes time and place to
solicite its owne affaires, to
visite its Iudges, and to
pleade its cause, vsing with
it some pitie and friendship.
Finally they have a nature
mingled with goodnesse
and malice, and they
are betweene Divels and
Angels, whom by reason
of the familiaritie which
they have with man, wee
may call them Airie Di<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>vells;
and these the com<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>mon
<pb n="28" facs="tcp:27231:20"/>
people call doore<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>keepers.</p>
               <p>All these aforesaid divels, &amp;
others whom I leave to men<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>tion
for avoiding prolixitie,
are found in the world, every
one of whom goeth severall
waies, leading soules into the
Hell of prison, &amp; all of them,
after the manner of evil spirits
are divided into divers Le<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>gions
and troopes. Yet not<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>withstanding
they torment
not the soules because they
enter not into Hell them<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>selves,
onely they deliver
them to <hi>Lucifers</hi> Lievetenant
the Iayler, &amp; returne inconti<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>nent
vnto their walke; for to
give up their account to their
Captaine, of the tentations
which they have practized
that day, and of the number
of soules which they have car<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ried
that day to prison, every
<pb n="29" facs="tcp:27231:20"/>
one of them reckoning up the
inventions &amp; wiles which he
hath practized in his hellish
Office. There be also other
divells which never go out of
the priso<g ref="char:cmbAbbrStroke">̄</g>, nor have any other
imployment, but to torment
the poore soules which enter
in thither. And those are so
tyrannous, so cruel &amp; so wic<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ked,
that they satisfie not their
inraged hunger but by suck<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ing
the bloud, &amp; the life of the
poore captive that fals among
their hands: albeit they suffer
him to breath so long; while
they have emptied his purse.
And these be the under por<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ters
&amp; servants of the Iayler,
who, as a President of that
dreadfull dwelling, receives
the prisonner from the hands
of the Sergeant and writes
in his booke the day of his
<pb n="30" facs="tcp:27231:21"/>
entring, his accusation, his
name and the name of that
Divell that hath taken him.</p>
               <p>These shut-up Divells have
no power nor authoritie to
torment a soule which the
others do bring in, nor these
others to take them, but
by the command of Iustice
declared by some honoura<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ble
Officer, who with reason
and truth by a signed writ<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ing
chargeth these uncleane
spirits to take such a soule.</p>
               <p>As for the rest it may well
be proved that every Ser<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>geant
hath power to leade a
man to prison, even so as
every Divell may beare a
soule to Hell, seeing that
there ordinarily entreth thi<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ther
an infinite number of
prisoners, and every one im<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>prisoned
by his severall
<pb n="31" facs="tcp:27231:21"/>
Iudge: some answer before
a Iudge with a long gown,
others before one with a
short gown, without recko<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ning,
many other officers of
Iustice, who as good Angels
have authoritie and power
to exercise it, who have their
appointed and praticular Di<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>vels,
who execute their com<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>mandment
and will.</p>
               <p>As touching the diversitie
of the lodgings and places
of their abode, the curious
shall see many differing in
the prison, every one fitted
for the prisoners delight. For
hee who is not criminall, and
who is Noble is usually
lodged in the lightsomest
chambers and neatest contri<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ved:
but understand that the
Noblenesse of a prison con<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>sisteth
in a good purse. Those
<pb n="32" facs="tcp:27231:22"/>
that be of a meaner qualitie
&amp; deserving are fitted in cer<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>tain
darke &amp; black chambers,
where smoke and cinders
continually bearesway.</p>
               <p>The prison hath yet this pro<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>perty
of Hel, to take in all sort
of sinners &amp; criminals, being
usually peopled, and full of
Theeves, Russians, Cut-pur<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ses,
Panders, Whoores, Mur<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>therers,
Perjured men, Bank<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>rupts,
Cheaters, Usurers, &amp;
Sorcerers, in as great varietie
as the living creatures that
entered into <hi>Noahs</hi> Arke, so
that entry is not denied nor
the gate shut against any.</p>
               <p>Of this remarkeable variety
the confused multitude of a
prison is composed with a
thousa<g ref="char:cmbAbbrStroke">̄</g>d other circumstances
which accompanie it, which
because it is altogether disor<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>derly
<pb n="33" facs="tcp:27231:22"/>
&amp; without bounds I shal
not be able to reduce it to one
terme or name, nor to give it a
definition which Universally
comprehendeth all the mi<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>series
of this dreadfull dwel<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ling,
if the curious Reader
will not be contented with
the Analogie and proportion
which it hath with the per<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>petuall
Hell. The which be<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ing
supposed as a thing most
proper to a prison, we shall
be able to describe it by its
properties &amp; by experience,
saying, that a prison is no o<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ther
thing but a land of cala<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>mitie<g ref="char:punc">▪</g>
a dwelling of darkenes,
a habitation of miserie or an
eternall horrour inhabited
without any kind of order. It
is a confused Chaos without
any dis<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>inction, it is a bot<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>tomles
pit of violence which
<pb n="34" facs="tcp:27231:23"/>
hath nothing that is in its
own center, it is a tower of
Babylon where all speake
and none heare, it is a med<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ley
against nature, in which
is seene the peace and agree<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ment
of two contraries,
mingling the Noble with
the infamous, the rich with
the poore, the civill with
the criminall, the sinner with
the just, it is a communal<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>tie
with agreement; one
whole by accident, a com<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>position
without parts, a Re<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ligion
without orders or
Lawes, and a body without
a head. The prison is the
grave of Noblenesse, the
banishment of courtes<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>e, the
poyson of honour, the cen<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ter
of infamie, the quintes<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>sence
of disparagement; the
hell of good wits, the <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap>
                  <pb n="35" facs="tcp:27231:23"/>
of pretences, the paradise of
cousenage, the martyrdome
of innocence, the cloude of
truth, the treasure of despaire
the fining-pot of friendship,
the wakener of rage, the
baite of impatience, the mine
of treasons, a den of Foxes,
the refuge of vengeance: the
punishment of force, and
the headsman of life. There
he that yesterday was great,
to day is meane; hee that
was happy in the City, now
starveth there; he that was
richly clad, is starke naked,
he that commanded, obey<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>eth;
he that had his court
full of caroches and rich
saddles, findeth not now one
more to visite him. There
civilitie is turned into inso<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>lence,
courage to subtiltie<g ref="char:punc">▪</g>
                  <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="2 letters">
                     <desc>••</desc>
                  </gap>amelesse outfacing into
<pb n="36" facs="tcp:27231:24"/>
vertue, blasphemie into va<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>lour,
flattery into eloquence
lyes to truth, silence to noise
modestie to boldnesse,
knowledge to ignorance,
and order to confusion: And
to end the miserie of that
unluckie place: I conclude in
saying that it is a forrest full
of wilde beasts, in which
the one teareth the other,
eating his heart and drinking
his bloud, so that no scruple
of conscience, feare of God,
suspition of love, compassion
or other respect whatsoever
which can have any shadow
of vertue or of goodnesse
is able to hinder them.
There one weepeth and an<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>other
singeth, one prayeth
and another blasphemeth,
one sleepeth, another wal<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>
                  <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="2 letters">
                     <desc>••</desc>
                  </gap>eth,
one goeth out, another
<pb n="37" facs="tcp:27231:24"/>
commeth in, one is con<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>demned,
another absolved,
one payeth, another deman<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>deth,
and finally one shall
hardly finde two of one ex<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ercise
and will. One will be
eating in a corner, another
will pisse behind him: and
in the middle of them ano<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ther
shall pull off his shirt
and strip himselfe starke na<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ked.
Every one is imploy<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ed
in his particular exercise,
they not having any other
houre or time appointed for
that save their will, which
being disordered, free in its
actions, produceth them
without any let or shame.
In that which concerneth
the sustenance of life, there is
no order kept there among
them, because that hunger is
their appetite, their time of
<pb n="38" facs="tcp:27231:25"/>
meales alwayes, their table
the bare board, their sawce
the nastinesse and filthy
stinke, and their musicke
sneesing and belchings. The
hangings of their chambers
are all mourning, with some
borders of spiders-cloth
(cobwebs), their seates the
ground or some stone grea<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>sed
with two inches of fat
Bacon. The Dishes where
they eate are alwayes ene<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>mies
to cleanlinesse, to serve
for a pot-lid and other vses
more base, and for spoones
they are served with five fin<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>gers
spotted like Iasper, and
having their nailes of a huge
length. As for their drinke,
the industrie of man teach<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>eth
them to make a pit in
the top of their Hat, and to
drinke in it more grease than
<pb n="39" facs="tcp:27231:25"/>
wine. And if peradventure
there be found among them
a pot or kettle, it shall be,
according to the order and
custome of the prison, bat<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ter'd
without a handle, nor
without vernish, and hath
past the first yeare of appren<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>tiship,
and hath beene vsed in
the most base offices, serving
for a pisse-pot, for a Flagon,
for a vineger bottle, for an
oile-pot and a bason. As
for napkins, they take their
skirts, or the outside of their
breeches, and for a table<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>cloth
the wrongside of a
poore old cloake, threed<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>bare
and fuller of Beasts
than that linnen cloth which
S. <hi>Peter</hi> saw in <hi>Da<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                        <desc>•</desc>
                     </gap>ascus.</hi> In
their garments they keepe a
great uniformitie, going all
of them clothed after the
<pb n="40" facs="tcp:27231:26"/>
manner of Lent, and with
S. <hi>Austins</hi> habite, but so
tatter'd and pucker'd, and
so fitted to the passions and
necessities of their bodies,
so that without breaking
their cod-piece point they
want not a perpetuall loose<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>nesse
to satisfie their flux
of the belly. They live
Apostollically, without scrip
without staffe and without
shooes, having nothing su<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>perfluous
nor double: con<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>trariwise
there is so great
simplicitie that they cover
all their body with one on<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ly
shirt, whereof many times
they have no more save the
sleeves, and they never leave
it off till it can go alone of its
owne accord. If <hi>Momu<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                        <desc>•</desc>
                     </gap>
                  </hi>
should come into the prison
he could finde nothing to
<pb n="41" facs="tcp:27231:26"/>
reprove them for, because
one may see them to the
very intralls. The combe,
tooth-pickers, brush, hand<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>kerchiefe,
looking-glasse,
sope-balls are banisht from
this place: of which pover<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>tie
groweth so great an a<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>bundance
that in their head,
beard, stomack &amp; flanck<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>s a
camell might be hidden. We
cannot say that there is any
kinde of vices in the prison,
because that idlenesse the
mother of them hath no
entrie there, because they are
all carefull and watchfull to
search for that which is ne<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>cessarie
for life: and their o<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>verplus
time they spend in
exercising themselves on di<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>verse
instruments of Musicke
having the itch for the Mis<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>tresse
of that vertue.</p>
               <p>
                  <pb n="42" facs="tcp:27231:27"/>
They have also their ap<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>pointed
houres for the mili<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>tary
Art, in the which they
fight with their bodily ene<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>mies,
whence they retire
evermore with the victorie,
bearing continually for tri<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>umph
&amp; trophees the bloud
on their nailes. They live
in Evangelicall hope never
troubling themselves with
the care of that which they
should eate or drinke to mor<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>row.
Their ordinarie com<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>fort
is the faith and hope
which they have to come
out of prison one day, and
put an end to their miseries.
With this comfort they live,
ever dying, putting cataracts
and deceiveable imaginati<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ons
before the eyes of their
reason. And if by chance the
time of their imprisonment
<pb n="43" facs="tcp:27231:27"/>
endeth, and Iustice giveth
assent that some one of them
goe forth, then the Divell is
so carefull and so watchfull
troubling and quelling his
libertie, that it seemeth to
him there are no gates
through which hee can get
out. One withholds him
asking a debt thirtie yeares
old, another the succession
of one of his grandfathers,
and another sheweth a band
more ancient than the de<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>luge.
And when his diligence
and meanes have delivered
him from his enemies with<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>out,
these within doores
begin to thunder out ano<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ther
song, for one deman<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>deth
of him five shillings
which he lent him eleven
months ago, another that
should pay for a pot which
<pb n="44" facs="tcp:27231:28"/>
he brake to him, another
draweth forth a bill of rec<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>koning,
asking him for ten
eggs and a sallet which he
paid for him. This man de<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>mandeth
that he should pay
him the good-morrow's
which he hath given him,
another the good nights, one
askes his Cap, another his
Doublet, another his Shooes
and all lay hold upon him.
And when he escapeth this
importunate swarm of Bees,
these tunes begin to deafe
his eares; the Iayler de<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>mands
of him the rights of
the prison, his entrance, his
going forth, and the time
that he hath tarried there,
for his sleeping, his talking,
his eating, his sneesing and
his coughing, and all the
time that he hath lived with<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>in
<pb n="45" facs="tcp:27231:28"/>
there, making more scores
in his booke than an Astro<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>loger
on the erecting of an
Horoscope. And when he
hath given him that which
he demands of him without
reason, he askes his gloves,
his Iayle fees, his slippers,
his old shooes and a coife
for the maide-servant. The
Dog askes him to pay for
his watching and barking
that he hath kept for him
while he slept, the Cat for
the paines she hath taken to
cleare his chamber from
Mice and Rats, one pulls
him on this side and another
on that, and all catch hold
of him like briers, while they
have left him dry, pluckt
bare, throng'd and as naked as
his mother bare him.</p>
               <p>This in briefe termes, is
<pb n="46" facs="tcp:27231:29"/>
the miserable practise of thi<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="2 letters">
                     <desc>••</desc>
                  </gap>
living patterne of Hell, with
all its circumstances, in eve<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ry
one of which there <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap>
matter enough to make <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap>
long and profound discourse<g ref="char:punc">▪</g>
That the Reader may be<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>
thinke himselfe hereof, that
being affrighted at the hard<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>nesse
thereof, he may avoide
the dangerous inconveni<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ences
which are presented
every day to a man as long
as he is at libertie: for if he
fall once into the Divels
hands, and beforced to passe
through the wicket of Hell,
though his cause were his
protector, he should waite
for S. <hi>Michael;</hi> and if Iustice
were his protector, he should
ever remaine burnt with the
marke of Hell, into which
who so once entereth, hee
<pb n="47" facs="tcp:27231:29"/>
leaueth the best thing that he
hath amongst <hi>Pluto's</hi> hands.
And albeit that hee enter
there fuller and richer than
the Queene of <hi>Saba</hi> when she
came to see King <hi>Salomon,</hi>
he shall come forth more
lanke, more drie and more
feeble than the seven
kine that <hi>Pharaoh</hi> saw
in his dreames.</p>
            </div>
            <div n="2" type="chapter">
               <pb n="48" facs="tcp:27231:30"/>
               <head>CHAP. II.</head>
               <head type="sub">Of a pleasant discourse whic<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>
the Author had in
Prison with a famous
Theife.</head>
               <p>
                  <seg rend="decorInit">T</seg>O the end that
none be deceived
with this proverbe
which<g ref="char:punc">▪</g> most men
hold for a <hi>Maxime,</hi> when
they say, That all noveltie
is well pleasing; because
that albeit Logicke should
not condemne this propo<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>sition
as false, experience
would discover its deceit:
for I doe not thinke that
<pb n="49" facs="tcp:27231:30"/>
there is any one in the world
that hath found the prison
pleasant, even at the first
time that he entred therein.
I may say of my selfe, that
when I was there, though
it was new to me I found
not any thing that I liked;
on the contrarie, the plea<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>sure
which novelties bring
with them was turned into
notable admiration and ex<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>treame
paine, seeing that
which willingly I would not
have seene, and talking of
that which lea<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="2 letters">
                     <desc>••</desc>
                  </gap> pleased me.
I spent the first dayes even
as all those, who enter into
that place have beene ac<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>customed
to passe them,
which is to con<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>ider the
lodgings, to be vexed at the
companie, and to shun the
familiar conversing with the
<pb n="50" facs="tcp:27231:31"/>
prisoners. And I might have
past all the time of my im<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>prisonment
in such like em<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ployment,
if it had lien in
my power to do it, because
that the companie invited
me not to acquaint my selfe.
But the necessitie being ac<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>companied
with exceeding
great curiositie which priso<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ners
have, when any one
entereth newly into prison,
tied me to frame my selfe to
the usuall fashion of these
people, from whom I had a
sufficent report of the sub<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>jects
and qualities of that
habitation, without other
paines-taking than to give
them the hearing, because
that by it a discreete man
shall know moe sins in foure
dayes than a Confessor in a
hundreth yeares. In the con<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>clusion
<pb n="51" facs="tcp:27231:31"/>
with a faire shew and
some pieces that I had in my
purse I purchased the good
will of all the rable, in such
sort, that there was not any
man of what ranke soever
who did not esteem much of
me, &amp; participated not with
me the most inward of his
conscience. But the conti<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>nu<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>ll
companie of this te<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>dious<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>
conversation troub<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>led
me, in such sort that I
was not mine owne, nor
had I the libertie to spend
one quarter of an houre by
my selfe alone. So lessayed
by a thousand meanes to
ridde my selfe from the
head-strong importunities of
those undiscreet people, but
it was not possible for me
to free my selfe, without
taking the office that I had
<pb n="52" facs="tcp:27231:32"/>
got over them. Wherefore
I was desirous to trie, if in
this martyrdome, seeing I
deserved no such thing, I
could finde some pleasure to
divert my minde and enter<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>taine
them. So continuing
my no lesse accustomed than
troublesome occupation, sit<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ting
one day upon a bench
which was in the Chappell
of the prison, in the com<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>panie
of three or foure of
these gallants, hearing some
difficulties, whereof they
were come to consult with
mee upon the ten Com<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>mandements,
I heard the
Echo of a sorrowfull voyce,
which called me pitifully.
All the standers by were a<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>mazed;
one of them ranne
to be informed of this vn<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>looked-for
newes, but the
<pb n="53" facs="tcp:27231:32"/>
speedy hast of him, which
sought for me, prevented
the curiositie of him who was
gone out to know the newes;
for <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>carsty had we heard the
voyce, when after it, entred
at the doore one of my re<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ligious
followers (held in
great esteeme amongst those
people who were none of
the holiest) with his colour
changed, his virage bathed
with teares, without a Hat,
his <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap> crossed, sighing
and be serching with great
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap> the companie, that
they would let him be alone
with me, amplifying his re<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>quest
by the <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap> of
th<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>se, as the pricipall <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap>
of mishap. They depar<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ted
the place, and he seeing
himselfe alone and with
freedome to discover his
<pb n="54" facs="tcp:27231:33"/>
thoughts to me, without any
other preface, preamble, ad<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>vertisement
or courtesie, he
said to me.</p>
               <p>Sir, to day is my feast day,
and they have made me a
gift of a clarke of a harbour,
with a Cardinalls Hat: what
remedie shall I be able to
finde for so great a mis<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>chiefe.
Verily this darke
speech of his words, toge<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ther
with the manner of
telling it, held mee some<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>what
in doubt, because I
knew not how to comment
upon so vncouth a language
followed with so many
fights and groanes. Never<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>thelesse
making <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 span">
                     <desc>〈…〉</desc>
                  </gap>
these words and already
guessing that which it might
be, I beleeved that he had got
this hat at some pot of wine
<pb n="55" facs="tcp:27231:33"/>
and that out of the abun<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>dance
thereof this noble
dignitie had climed up to
the head. So smiling I said to
him: My friend, the Post
that hath brought you this
newes, is he of a douzen or
of twentie? It is not of
twelue, nor offoure, unhappy
man that I am! answered he,
for I am not drunke, nor ever
was I in all my lifetime, and
would to God that all the
world were so retired in this
action as I am: but as the
Proverbe saith, some have
the name, the others have the
eff<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>ct. And you doe not well
to make a poore unhappie
wretch that askes your
counsell in his extreame af<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>fliction.
His answer to the
purpose redoubled my asto<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>nishment,
and not being able
<pb n="56" facs="tcp:27231:34"/>
to hit at that which this
might meane, I said to him
somewhat in anger; Make
an end then to relate to me
the cause of your paine, and
hold me no more in doubt
with your darke speeches
or ridles. Now I know, Sir,
said he, that yee have not
studied Martiall tearmes,
nor you vnderstand not as
yet Galunatias his stile, so it
will be hard for you to vn<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>derstand
the comming to<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>gether
of two solide bodies
with the perspective of red
flowers in a white field.
From this second answer I
fully resolved that hee was
not drunke, but foolish, and
as to such a one, I agreed
with him to all that he said,
although I vnderstood him
never a whit. And taking the
<pb n="57" facs="tcp:27231:34"/>
subject to reason with him
upon the same reasons, I
asked him, who made him a
Cardinall and why? To
which he answered me thus.
You should understand that
some officers of the <hi>three</hi>
and of the <hi>five</hi> of <hi>Topo &amp;
Tango</hi> vpon the <hi>Seventh</hi> and
the <hi>Goe</hi> met me one Sunday
at midnight and finding me
with the <hi>
                     <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                        <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                     </gap> de bastons</hi> the lot
would that they should run
a hazard,<note place="margin">These theevis<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                        <desc>•</desc>
                     </gap> words of the trade are after<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ward made cleare.</note> and I remained
with the money. They were
deceived, and desiring to re<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>venge
their wrong, they
went to <hi>Scipion,</hi> declaring
an Vniversall head which
they had seene in my hands,
upon which they made long
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="3 letters">
                     <desc>•••</desc>
                  </gap>ormations by the <hi>Signe<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                        <desc>•</desc>
                     </gap>
                     <g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>
                     <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="2 letters">
                        <desc>••</desc>
                     </gap>
                  </hi>
                  <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 span">
                     <desc>〈…〉</desc>
                  </gap>: and at
the end of a rigorous exami<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>nation
<pb n="58" facs="tcp:27231:35"/>
which they had of me,
they found mee not good
enough to be Pope, they
left me the office of a Car<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>dinall.
You ought to account
your selfe happy, I answerd
him, having so great a dig<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>nitie,
seeing that few ob<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>taine
it, and these with great
paines and travell. I would
quite it, with all my heart,
saith he, and that without
pension, if any one would
receive it for mee, and I
would moreover binde my
selfe to him to pay for the
seales, because to speake the
truth, it is a charge too heavy
for me, and hee that gives
it, hath not any good repu<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>tation
among the people nor
many friends in the <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap>
and this is the cause that I
make no great account of it<g ref="char:punc">▪</g>
                  <pb n="59" facs="tcp:27231:35"/>
And doe not thinke that in
saying, that I will no wayes
accept of it, I can helpe my
selfe of this paine: for it is
not in my power, nor in
theirs who receive the like
charges to be able to refuse
them, sithence dignities are
bestowed by deservings, and
albeit that men refuse them,
they are made to take them
by force, that no man may
refuse them nor make re<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>sistance
by too great humi<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>litie,
they binde it upon him
as if he were a foole. True<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ly
my friend, said I then to
him; you ought to account
your selfe happy and very
fortunate, for such an electi<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>on;
this being supposed that
it is made for deserving, and
not for favour. Very for<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>tunate,
saith hee, assuredly I
<pb n="60" facs="tcp:27231:36"/>
am, howbeit an vnworthy
sinner, but no wise happy, for
if I were, I should not be
very fortunate. With this
answer I began to see clear<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ly,
that he was neither foolish
nor drunke: but that dissem<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>bling
hee covered his words
of this his chatting, and reso<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>lute
to leave him with his
—I rise speaking to
him some harsh words, to
which hee answered with
great humilitie, saying, Sir
I beseech you to stay your
choler a litle: for it is not
without a mysterie, that I
have spoke<g ref="char:cmbAbbrStroke">̄</g> to you in a riddle,
and beleeve me that in this I
have had no other intenti<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>on,
but to hide my mishaps
from some—who
usually watch harkning af<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ter
the life of another, to
<pb n="61" facs="tcp:27231:36"/>
report them to their copse<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>mates.
But now seeing that
I can utter it to you without
feare I will explaine my
selfe, being well assured that
a man of so good a wit as
you are, will not be offended
to heare my weakenesse, and
will not deny me your good
counsell which out of your
charitie I promise to my
selfe. So know that Cardi<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>nall
is that which to day at
noone one hit mee over the
shoulders: The Clarke of
harbour hee that receiveth
such as are condemned to the
Gallies: those of three, are
some of our companie, are
some that watch the streete,
when any theft is commit<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ted,
and these have the third
part<g ref="char:punc">▪</g> Those of Five are
some honorable persons, or
<pb n="62" facs="tcp:27231:37"/>
at least held for such by th<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>
common people, who hid<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>
and keepe the theft in their
house, and for that the fifth
part is given to them. Now
you shall know that by mis<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>liking
I being one night in
a list that was made, the
booty was so little, that there
was not whereof to make
neither fourth nor fifth, and
I being the man that put
himselfe in greatest danger
I was willing to goe away
with all, promising to redresse
the bygone fault in another
more gainefull occasion.
Those of <hi>Seven;</hi> and <hi>Goe,</hi>
I will tell my companions
found not this satisfaction
to the purpose, which I gave
them, because that absolutely
they would have their share
I seeing that it was altoge<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ther
<pb n="63" facs="tcp:27231:37"/>
impossible, for that I
had already eaten it, turned
the processe to a quarrell,
and laying hold on a baton
which is the <hi>As</hi> that you have
heard, gave one of them a
sound blow over the head;
who seeing himselfe woun<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ded,
and his companions
cheated, went to S. <hi>Scipion</hi>
who is the Major, and accu<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>sed
mee that I was a theife at
<hi>Crochet,</hi> which is an instru<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ment
where with we open all
manner of doores, and fol<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>lowing
the accusation they
made me be laid up in pri<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>son<g ref="char:punc">▪</g>
The Lords of the
Court, whom we call <hi>
                     <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                        <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                     </gap>,</hi>
                  <note place="margin">To be whipt at the Carts taile.</note>
condemned mee
to goe the accustomed
rounds about the streets, and
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 span">
                     <desc>〈…〉</desc>
                  </gap> to serve his <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap>
in the Gallies of
<pb n="64" facs="tcp:27231:38"/>
                  <hi>Marseilles.</hi> Which executi<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>on
should be made this same
day at noone; I tremble be<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>cause
ten a clocke is strucke
already. If ye have any reme<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>dy
to give me, ye will doe a
great worke of mercy, be<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>cause
I feare that the Hang<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>man
having stript mee, and
finding five markes about me
which were unjustly given
me,<note place="margin">Burnd on the shoul<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ders.</note> doubtlesse he will make
mee take a shorter journey.
The wretch had proceeded
thus far with the explaining
of darke speech, ere ever <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap>
could break off his discourse;
so great was the astonishment
which his entangled met a<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>phors
left me in, &amp; ending his
story with a deep sigh, which
came from his very soule, he
fell halfe, dead betweene my
armes. He being come <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap>
                  <pb n="65" facs="tcp:27231:38"/>
himselfe againe, I began to
comfort him the best I possi<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>bly
could, counselling, for
the last remedy to appeale to
the Court, hoping alwayes
for more mercie, from the
highest seate of justice, than
from the inferior Iudges
Scarcely had I ended my
words but three or foure of
his companions, dying for
laughter enter'd at the Chap<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>pell
doore, saying to him
that the newes which they
had tolde him were false,
and those lashes were ima<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ginary,
that it was a tricke
of his enemies maliciously
invented to trouble and
vexe him. With this newes
the poore wretch came a<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>gaine
so suddenly to his first
estate, that save there re<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>mained
some remembrance
<pb n="66" facs="tcp:27231:39"/>
of his first taking it to heart,
he cut moe than five and
twenty capers in the ayre,
with a thousand turnings of
good liking, and his compa<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>nions
began to play upon
him, in which he paid them
home their change, with so
wittie answers, that hee left
me a great desire, to keepe
him with me all alone, and
at leasure to know at length
his vocation and office, and
the cleering of some obscure
words which he usually min<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>gled
in his discourse; so I in<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>treated
him, but he knowing
that I had such a desire, in
requitall of the patience with
which I had heard him, and
of the good counsell, which
I had given him in his neede,
he promist to give me a good
account of his life, of his
<pb n="67" facs="tcp:27231:39"/>
parents life, and the change<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>able
successes which hap<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>pened
to him in his trade;
with all particulars which
could be learned amongst
those of his office, &amp; having
appointed me a place at
two in the afternoone;
we went to dinner.</p>
            </div>
            <div n="3" type="chapter">
               <pb n="68" facs="tcp:27231:40"/>
               <head>CHAP. III.</head>
               <head type="sub">To whom the Theefe relateth
the Noblenesse and Excel<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>lencie
of Theft.</head>
               <p>
                  <seg rend="decorInit">T</seg>He good <hi>Andrew</hi>
(for so hee was
called) was not at
all slothfull to be
at the place appointed, nor to
declare to me the Historie
which I had requested with
so great a desire: for halfe
an houre before that, which
wee had appointed, I found
that hee waited for me with
extreame impatience and so
great, that almost without
<pb n="69" facs="tcp:27231:40"/>
saluting me, hee began to re<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>late
his Historie, saying.
Know, Sir, that if from the
time of your birth ye should
have gone searching through
all the Universities of the
world for some one, who
with more ground, experi<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ence
&amp; le<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>rning then I could
informe you of that which
yee desire to know, it were
impossible to finde him: see<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ing
that in this which tou<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>cheth
(and let this be spoken
without vanitie) the under<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>sta<g ref="char:cmbAbbrStroke">̄</g>ding
of the riddles of <hi>Mer<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>curie
Trismegstus,</hi> and o<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ther
darke Philosophers, and
to be, as they say, of the right
haire and feathers, I will not
yeelde it to any man in the
world. With this and other
secrets reserved to my own
onely discretion I have found
<pb n="70" facs="tcp:27231:41"/>
out the Philosophers stone
and the true <hi>Elixar</hi> of life,
with which I turne poyson
into medicine, the course
cloth into cloth of gold,
and hunger into fulnesse and
satietie more than sufficient,
without putting any thing to
it of my goods, save the
turning of a hand. I doe not
deale as a thousand other ig<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>norant
people of our daies,
who being blinded by the
gainfull end which the
practise of the great Philo<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>sophers-stone
promiseth
them doe adventure rashly
to spend all to finde nothing,
&amp; to vndoe a hundred thou<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>sand
essences to finde one
fifth both vncertaine and
false, whose excesse and cu<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>riositie
have none other end
but infamie, miscrie and po<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>vertie,
<pb n="71" facs="tcp:27231:41"/>
and finally a shame<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>full
death: for as much as
those who have consum'd
their owne goods and the
goods of their friends, to
search for that which they
have not found, utter their
rage with strokes of ham<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>mers
upon the seven mettals,
which are the cause of their
overthrow. And which is
worse, with all the tryalls
and vnhappie ends of Alcu<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>mists,
there is not any man
to whom curiositie will not
awaken the appetite, and
provoke the will every time
that he heareth any man
talke of this arte. Mine is not
of this kinde, and therefore
lesse subject to the fancies
and idle imaginations of
<hi>Gebor Arnaut, Raymond Lully</hi>
and other great Advancers
<pb n="72" facs="tcp:27231:42"/>
of the arte, whose know<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ledge
consisteth in not to be
understood; it is easie, plaine
and without any mixture
Neverthelesse he who he<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>
will that shall exercise it, it is
necessarie that hee be wise,
prudent and well advised,
because that wanting or fai<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ling
in one whatsoever it be
of these things, a man shall
easily lose in an instant all
that he hath gained in all his
life. This noble art also
hath not <hi>Aristotles</hi> princi<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ples,
because that as well he
as all others that follow
him, imagined that nothing
could be made of nothing:
this being true that in this
our Art, all things are made
of nothing; and if we may
attribute any principle of
them which he propoundeth
<pb n="63" facs="tcp:27231:42"/>
in his Physicks, it is the pri<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>
                  <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>ation
only<g ref="char:punc">▪</g> seeing that from
it alone we come to the pos<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>session
of infinit wealth. As
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>or our tooles, I co<g ref="char:cmbAbbrStroke">̄</g>fesse there
are some, forasmuch as there
is no trade that can be with<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>out
them, but neverthelesse
they are so easie &amp; so cheape,
that we well nigh make them
our selves, after they are
made, they last time out of
minde. The ground then
to busie one of our trade, is
onely the good courage and
sound disposition of his body
and limmes, and with this
alone a man becommeth his
crafts-master, without any
other ornament—And doe
no<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap> think that this Art, having
so poore a beginning as no<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>thing,
is shamful or infamous,
for it is the most noble, the
<pb n="64" facs="tcp:27231:43"/>
absolute and the most privi<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ledged
of all those that are
in the world, so farre forth
that acknowledgeth nor re<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>specteth
neither King nor
knave, nor careth it for
all the Monarchs of the
earth, nor for the Ecclesia<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>stike
power, nor for the Se<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>cular:
but rather all pay tri<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>bute
and travels for him. Its
fields are fruitfull in drie
grounds, it gathers the fruit
without sowing, it hath no
traffique with any, and de<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>mands
of all, it lendeth to
no body, and all are indeb<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ted
to it, its harvests grow
without raine, and there is
not any thing whereof it ta<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>keth
not the tithes. There
commeth not any fleete
from the <hi>Indies,</hi> nor great
ship from the <hi>Levant,</hi> wher<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>of
<pb n="65" facs="tcp:27231:43"/>
of it not make shew to be
partner, there is not a <hi>Guine</hi>
Marchant, that is not its
debtor, and finally, it cat<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>cheth
up all. And which
ought to be most valued in
this pretious Art, is the great
ease with which it is exerci<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>sed,
in which it exceeds all
other Arts, that are till these
our times found out in the
world, the end of which is
contrary to that of this, be<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>cause
that is perfected in the
doing, this in undoing, and
to undoe being more easie
than to doe (as the Philoso<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>pher
saith) doubtlesse it is
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>ut that our Art is easier than
all others whose end is ob<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>tained
with great paines, tra<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>vells
and difficulties.</p>
               <p>Honest <hi>Andrew</hi> had pro<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ceeded
further in the praises
<pb n="66" facs="tcp:27231:44"/>
and excellencie of his trade,
if I had not broke him off
with an extreame impati<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ence,
the titles of honour
and noblenesse which hee
gave it seeming to me alto<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>gether
improper, as well for
that it is of it selfe imfamous,
as for the innumerable dan<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>gers
which usually happen
to them, who undertake such
like traffiques: wherefore I
said to him; I do not know,
<hi>Andrew,</hi> how nor by what
reason you your selfe reckon
up to me these Arts so noble,
so easie and so profitable, see<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ing
that you have related to
me the perilous extremities
in which you have beene,
which your povertie and ca<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>lamity
assure me to be of little
profit &amp; of great misery which
is therein, that makes mee
<pb n="67" facs="tcp:27231:44"/>
to marvel very much at your
persevering in your unhappy
trade, ere you were made
wise by the experiences past.
You have reason (he answe<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>red)
and I confesse that
many hazards and disgraces
light upon vs, but one Oxe
eateth more than a hundred
Larks, I will say that one
good encounter shoulders
out many disgraces, which
have not in so great number
as you thinke, and though
they were, it is not possible
for vs to give over this trade
but by death, because this
Art hath I cannot tell what
with it, that it is like one sicke
of the Dropsie, who the
more he drinks the more he
thirsts, and of one onely act
there becommeth a habite,
<hi>qui difficilè removetur a
<pb n="68" facs="tcp:27231:45"/>
subjecto,</hi> which is hardly re<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>moved
from the subject.
And I know wel that you wil
like my doctrine well, being
so learned a man as you are,
seeing they are accustomed
to dispute among the Philo<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>sophers
if this maxime of
<hi>Aristotle</hi> (who saith <hi>Expluri<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>bus
actibus generatur habitus,</hi>
of many actions is begot a
habit) be Universally true.
And some say that of one
only action a habit may be
bred, which should be under<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>stood
of morall actions, and
those of worser sort: I will
affirme that to breede a con<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>tinuall
custome in sinning,
one only action is sufficient:
but to doe well, there is need
of many. The reason is
cleere, for that the will of
man being disposed to sinne,
<pb n="69" facs="tcp:27231:45"/>
because it is called <hi>fomes
peccati,</hi> the fewell of sinne,
and for the miseries drawen
upon it in its conception, one
action alone leaveth in it a
certaine inward disposition
with which it becommeth
easie, and disposed to like
actions; but the desire being
so marred, corrupt and ill
disposed to receive vertue,
there needeth not only one
vertuous action, but many,
if any disposition or custome
of doing well should remaine
after it. By which you may
judge that albeit a thousand
disgraces fall upon us it were
almost impossible for us to
forsake our trade, nor change
our life, having already tur<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ned
it into a nature, and if
this should be done, it should
be needfull to make the
<pb n="70" facs="tcp:27231:46"/>
world a new againe, more or
lesse all wooll is haire, we
are all of us of one brothers
hood, no man is content with
his state, he that hath most
desireth more, that which
costeth little agreeth best
with us, and all (as the Pro<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>verbe
goeth) like well.</p>
               <p>But mishap be to that in<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>fortunat
man who payeth for
all; for as the Proverb saith,
the Gallowes are for all
such, we rubbe all men, and
for those sinnes some are
hang'd, others are rich<g ref="char:punc">▪</g>
Happy are they who robbe
Hippocrates-like, I will
speake as the Physitians;
whose faults the earth cove<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>reth,
so that no man is able
to accuse them, nor aske re<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>stitution
of his life, and of the
money which they have
<pb n="71" facs="tcp:27231:46"/>
publickly rob'd and in the
view of all the world. And
though some of these be spi<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>rituall
men, others tempo<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>rall,
notwithstanding all
meete in the same way, and
shoote at one marke: for
there be also horseleeches
which sucke the world
sweetly, and wring their
necke, with a sad dumpish
countenance, and a faire
shew colour their ambitious
designes with godly words.
And for them, it is said in the
Proverbe, the Divell is be<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>hinde
the Crosse. There are
others also, who though
they wring not the necke, nor
speake so much of God, ap<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ply
neverthelesse the juris<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>diction
of their offices in
favour of him that giveth
them most; who being lap't
<pb n="72" facs="tcp:27231:47"/>
in long wide gownes making
them to bee respected there is
not a man that dare to give
the<g ref="char:cmbAbbrStroke">̄</g> a word, nor shew by any
signe the evil satisfaction that
they have by them: but the
wretched person that neither
hath God in his mouth, nor
barke wherwith to hide him<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>selfe,
if he be not very wise &amp;
prudent all the persecutions
of the world hang about him
at once, all men spit in his
face, and he is the marke of all
the abuses in the world: wher<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>fore
blame not our Art be<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>fore
you understand it; for
you should so offend all the
world &amp; perhaps your selfe,
sith no man liveth without
f<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>ult. How much more if you
knew what sweetnesse thereis
to gather the fruit where one
hath not planted, and to find
<pb n="73" facs="tcp:27231:47"/>
the in gathering in his garner
&amp; in his cellar, himself having
neither fielde nor vineyard,
you would even licke your
fingers at it. Is this a smal mat<g ref="char:EOLunhyphen"/>ter
I pray you, that a man ri<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>seth
in the morning not ha<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ving
penny nor farthing, nor
knowing yet whence to have
it for to nourish his family,
and yet ere night he is worth
a hundred crownes, &amp; know<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>eth
not whence they came?
Is this a small matter in grea<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>test
sloth and necessitie to
finde apparell cut and slasht
without paying either for
stuffe or making? Is there
any such Noblenesse in the
world, as to be a Gentleman
without rents, and to have o<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ther
mens goods so his own,
as that hee may dispose of
them at his will, without
<pb n="74" facs="tcp:27231:48"/>
costing him any more but
to take them? Doe you
thinke it a small matter to be
a Marchant without a stocke,
to gaine two hundreth for
nothing, without crossing the
seas, going to faire or market,
not caring if the Marchant
turne banque-rupt, if the
yeare be barren or plentiful,
if wares be deare or cheape?</p>
               <p>And if ye will take our trade
by way of reputation or cre<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>dit,
doth it seeme a small
thing to you, to finde one
who will insure us our life,
whatsoever wee doe, and to
have at our becke some
Iudges, who save us from the
lash from the Gallies, from
torture &amp; from the Gallowes
only with a single &amp; wel-assu<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>red
promise to satisfie them
with the gaine of our next
<pb n="75" facs="tcp:27231:48"/>
theft? And that they do this
not only for us, but for our
friends, kindred and acquain<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>tance?
Abuse not your selfe,
and acknowledge that there
is no life more assured in this
world than ours, for instead
of one displeasure that wee
have, there are infinite plea<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>sures
and contentments to
be enjoyed. And <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 span">
                     <desc>〈…〉</desc>
                  </gap>
much for my profes<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>sion
and trade.</p>
            </div>
            <div n="4" type="chapter">
               <pb n="76" facs="tcp:27231:49"/>
               <head>CHAP. IIII.</head>
               <head type="sub">To him the Thiefe relateth the
life and death of his Parents
and the first disgrace that
befell him.</head>
               <p>
                  <seg rend="decorInit">A</seg>S for my race, you
shall know that I
am a man borne of
a woman, in a town
of this world, whose name
I lost in a sicknesse which I
had in the yeare sixe hun<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>dred
and foure. My, fa<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ther
was called <hi>Peter</hi> and
my mother <hi>Hope,</hi> people,
though meane, honorable
and vertuous, of good re<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>putation
and praise-worthy
manners. And as for the
<pb n="77" facs="tcp:27231:49"/>
goods of fortune, they were
not so great, that they were
able to give bribes, nor
marry Orphans out of
their meanes, nor so meane,
that they obliged them<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>selves
to aske almes, nor to
subject themselves to any
man, but they were people
that knew how to live, and
that had bread to eate, and
clothes to put on. In all the
course of their life there
was nothing found that
they could be reproched
for, nor whereof they
could be reproved, because
they heeded no other thing
(particularly my mother)
but to keepe their honour
and the good esteeme which
they had gained, for which
and for the freedoome and
faire conditions of their pro<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ceedings
<pb n="78" facs="tcp:27231:50"/>
and conversation,
all the world honored and
loved them. But as vertue
is ordinarily envied, and
honest people persecuted,
there was no want of ma<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>licious
and wicked people,
who by false and rash ca<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>lumnies
darkned the bright<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>nesse
and glistering of their
good works &amp; the cleannes
of their life. They were ac<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>cused
(I say) to have
robbed a Church, to have
spoiled the Vestrie with
the ornaments and chalices,
and which is worse, to have
cut off S. <hi>Bartholomews</hi> hand,
who was upon an Altar,
which they said was of
silver. An accusation as ma<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>licious
as false, especially,
for my mothers part, whose
devotion towards the Saints
<pb n="79" facs="tcp:27231:50"/>
was so great, that when she
went to Church, if my fa<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ther
had not pull'd her out
by the haire, or the Sexton
had not shut the doore a<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>gainst
her, there was no
meanes to make her come
out of the Church, although
shee had beene three dayes
without meate, and her de<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>votion
was so knowne to all
the people, that she never
came forth to the streete,
but a thousand folke praied
her to say some <hi>Ave Maria</hi>
for women with child, sicke
and other afflicted persons,
having all of them great
faith in her prayers. But as
there are traitors enough to
condemne a just man, and in
this age innocency serveth
to no purpose, if it be not
favoured, for so much as
<pb n="80" facs="tcp:27231:51"/>
the Lawes goe as it pleaseth
Kings, it came to passe that
notwithstanding the re<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>proaches
which they gave in
against the witnesses, more
than sufficient to refute the
malice of the accusers,
and to manifest the inno<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>cencie
of the accused, they
condemned them to die, and
together with them a bro<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ther
of mine, and my mo<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>thers
Nephew. Verily the
case was strange and scanda<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>lous,
though false, and
their death unjust: but what<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>soever
the cause I doe not
envie them the profit, which
let them eate with their
bread, they shall not goe
to <hi>Rome</hi> for penance, for
there is a God in the world
that seeth all things, and
seeing he punisheth that
<pb n="81" facs="tcp:27231:51"/>
he will not suffer one haire of
the just to perish, it belongs
to him to avenge the wrong
done to his servants, for so
I may call them, yea even
Martyrs, sith they constant<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ly,
suffered death for the
love of God, they being ac<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>cused
of faults which they
had not committed. A
tricke, finally that they be<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ing
poore, they were con<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>strained
to pay with their
life, that which they were
not able with their goods. I
only may praise my selfe
that I found some mercie
with the Iudges, in conside<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ration
of my young yeares,
and of the small experience
that I had; yet the favour
they shewed me, was a grace
with sinne: because Iustice
left me my life, with con<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>dition
<pb n="82" facs="tcp:27231:52"/>
that I shuld be the exe<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>cutioner
of these Martyres.
I was very unwilling and
did all I could, not to com<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>mit
so execrable a crime as
that is, to take away their
lives that had given me mine:
but it was impossible to ex<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>cuse
me, but by losing my
life with them. Wherefore
I considering that another
would doe that, which I re<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>fused,
and of the other side
the perswasion of my friends
who with a great charge up<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>on
my conscience, counsel<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>led
me to doe it, that so the
whole kindred of my parents
should not be lost, and that
there should remaine some
one in the world who might
pray for them; I put on a re<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>solution
to doe that which
for any other respect I
<pb n="83" facs="tcp:27231:52"/>
would never have done. But
this is my comfort, which is
not a little one to me, that
my father gave me his bles<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>sing
at the houre of his death
forgiving me all that I could
have committed in this
world, against the respect
and reverence, which I owed
him, giving me also some
wholesome counsels, and
recommending to me vertue
and the feare of God, above
all that I should ever strive
to be like my parents and
that I should shew my selfe
such a one as those of whom
I was descended. With these
reasons and some others I
remained greatly comfor<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ted,
and resolved to end
my prison with their life. I
was left an Orphan, young,
alone, or ill accompanied,
<pb n="84" facs="tcp:27231:53"/>
and without counsell, with<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>out
knowing what side to
turne me to, for to main<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>taine
that life which these
gentlemen had left me, be<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>cause
that the cockering and
good cheere in which my
mother had bred me, had
beene the especiall cause of
my undoing, shee suffering
me to live idlely and
lazily.</p>
               <p>Neverthelesse I seeing that
the memorie of the good
past brought me no profit,
and that if I should live and
eate bread it ought to be
with the sweate of my
browes, I determined to
looke out for a master whom
I might serve, or some han<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>die-crafts-man
with whom
I might learne some trade,
which was all in vaine, be<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>cause
<pb n="85" facs="tcp:27231:53"/>
that the accident of
my parents being in fresh
memorie, and their infamie
yet late, I found not one
that would receive me into
his house, nay not so much
as to be a groome of his
stable: wherefore I was for<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ced
to leave the countrey,
and to goe try my fortunes
in a strange countrey. What
countrey is that (I asked him
then) in which your parents
dwelt, because if I be not de<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ceived
in the discourse of
your relation, you have
changed its right name as
also its surname, and your
owne? Command me not,
I beseech you, answered he,
to breake a solemne oath
which we of our profession
have made amongst our
selves, which is never to re<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>veale
<pb n="86" facs="tcp:27231:54"/>
to any man our own<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>
countrey, nor our parent<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>
name, this being supposed
that it availeth little to the
truth of my history to know
it, and though it seemeth to
you that it is no my <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap> to
conceale it, beleeve me you
are deceived for so much that
there is nothing more dange<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>rous
in our Art, than to tell
a mans true name, as well as
of his countrey, as of his
baptisme, seeing that as you
know, albeit we be fallen a
thousand times into the
hands of Iustice, and that
we be as many times con<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>victed
of some crime, w<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>e
onely changing our name,
we ever make it appeare that
this is the first time that we
have beene taken, and the
first crime whereof we have
<pb n="87" facs="tcp:27231:54"/>
ever bin accused, and no man
knowing the name of our pa<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>rents,
nor of our countrey
they cannot be informed of
our lives &amp; manners, nor our
parents receive any shame
from our disgrace seeing that
as you may oftentimes haue
seene, when they co<g ref="char:cmbAbbrStroke">̄</g>demne a
man the first words of his
sentence say; such a one, of
such a place, the son of such a
man &amp; such a woman is con<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>demned
to be whipt or han<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ged
such a day, moneth and
yeare, from which procee<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>deth
nothing else, but sorrow
to him that dyeth, and disho<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>nour
to his parents. If this be
so (said I to him) you have rea<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>son
to hid it, &amp; this being sup<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>posed
that is not for your a<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>vaile
to tel it, &amp; it availeth not
me to know it, let us leave it,
<pb n="88" facs="tcp:27231:55"/>
and follow your Historie.
It fell out then (said hee)
that about foure leagues
from the place of my birth,
I put my selfe apprentice to
a Shooemaker, it seeming
to mee to be the most gain<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>full
of all trades, especial<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ly
in <hi>France,</hi> where all those
that walke goe at it were
post, even as if Iustice
were running after them, and
where all Shooe themselves
against nature, that which
is contained being greater
than that which containeth
that is to say, the foot grea<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ter
than the shooe, whence it
falleth out that the shooes
last a very short while. I
opened then mine eyes
thither and bend my
minde to this trade for
that beside the gaine it was
<pb n="89" facs="tcp:27231:55"/>
the most easie. But as from
my infancie my parents had
taught me to rip, it was not
possible for me so suddenly
to change the habite which
I had already, turned into
nature, and so sixe weeks
past ere I could learne to set
one right stitch. From this
ignorance my Master tooke
occasion to disdaine me,
breaking some lasts on my
head, to see if they could
leave some impression beside
the continuall abstinence
with which hee punisht me,
some of his friends having
said to him that it was a sin<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>gular
remedie—and
quicken my wit. This
life seemed not good to
me nor to bee desired,
wherefore I resolved to for<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>sake
it, and lay out for
<pb n="90" facs="tcp:27231:56"/>
another more peaceable,
knowing particularly in my
selfe some motions of No<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>blenesse,
which inclined me
to things higher and greater
than to make shooes, where<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>fore
I conclude with my
selfe to search all meanes
possible to bring me into the
house of some man of quali<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>tie
and rich, being assured
that with the faire conditi<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ons
and readinesse that I had,
my service should be well-pleasing
to my Master. Veri<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ly
the resolution was good,
and the thoughts honourable
and noble; but so lame,
maime and without force
for want of meanes, and
apparell to set them forward
seeing that it is most certaine,
that if with my hands waxed,
my apron and other markes
<pb n="91" facs="tcp:27231:56"/>
of a Shoomaker I should
have presented my selfe at
the gate of some Knight,
they would not have suffered
me to enter</p>
               <p>This difficultie held mee
some few dayes in perplexi<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>tie
without knowing how to
enter upon my enterprises,
notwithstanding making a
vertue of necessitie, being
vexed at the miserable life
which I led, I determined to
draw Physicke out of the
disease, and honie from the
Bees stings, and endeavou<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ring
to revenge my selfe on
the Spanish lether and all
shooe-makers. To this effect
there came a notable bold<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>nesse
in my mind, yea and
profitable enough and sure,
if fortune who then was my
enemie had not over-thrown
<pb n="92" facs="tcp:27231:57"/>
my designes and my inven<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>tions,
I considered that if
I stole any thing out of the
house, my shift should have
beene discovered in an in<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>stant,
and I as a stranger and
friendlesse, beene ill dealt
withall, particularly, with
the hatred which my Ma<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ster
bare towards me, &amp; the
harshnesse with which they
are wont to punish houshold
thefts in <hi>France.</hi> So rising on
Fryday morning earely than
I had been accustomed,
rubbing my hands with
waxe and also my face, I
went with my apron girt to
mee, and my hands all be<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>dawbed,
to runne through
all the shops of the towne,
especially those that were
best acquainted with my
Master, and telling to every
<pb n="93" facs="tcp:27231:57"/>
one that were in the shops,
that the Gentleman staid at
my Masters for a paire of
bootes of the eights, to put
them on incontinent, I asked
for one boote to trie if it
would fit him that desired
them. None made any dif<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ficultie
to give me it, thin<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>king
that a man could not
be served with one
boote alone, otherwise the
most part of the shooe-ma<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>kers
knew me, and these who
had never seene me were in
a minute so well satisfied
with my presence, that if
the first finder out of the
trade had come, they could
not have given him more
credite. With this inventi<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>on
I went almost through
all the shops of the towne,
ever heeding to aske for a
<pb n="94" facs="tcp:27231:58"/>
boote of the same size, and
last that the first was of: And
the invention fell out so to
the purpose, and with so
great ease that in halfe an
houres space, I gathered me
then two hundred bootes all
of one size, and of one fashi<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>on,
which having tied up in
a sacke, I laid them on my
shoulders and betooke me to
the way. The fact lay dead
without suspition almost
two houres, but seeing that
I came not backe againe,
nor returned the boots which
I had carried away, nor
tooke that which I had left,
all of them suspected that
which truely fell out. And
so this time being past, moe
than a hundred apprentices
were at the doore where I
dwelt, every one asking for
<pb n="95" facs="tcp:27231:58"/>
his boote, which my Master
and some few of his neigh<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>bours,
who loved mee not
very well, seeing they told
the Iustice, who dividing
themselves through the three
gates of the Citie, met mee
not very farre from one of
them, because the weight of
my burthen suffered me not
to get out of sight as I could
have wisht. They brought
me backe to the towne, and
proceeding against mee for
the fact yet hot and fresh in
minde, they condemned me
to walke foure houres
through the accustomed
streets (that is to be
scourged) with three
yeares banish<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ment.</p>
            </div>
            <div n="5" type="chapter">
               <pb n="96" facs="tcp:27231:59"/>
               <head>CHAP. V.</head>
               <head type="sub">Of the first Theefe that was
in the world and whence
theft had its beginning.</head>
               <p>
                  <seg rend="decorInit">A</seg>Lthough this noble
Art had no other
excellency but the
antiquitie of its
beginning and the Noble<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>nesse
of the first finder out
thereof, it might suffice to
the end that every good wit
should approve it for to be
the most Noble of all those
which are practized at this
day in the world, the first
inventour thereof was one
of the fairest Angells that
<pb n="97" facs="tcp:27231:59"/>
was, whose beautie, dignitie
and greatnesse was so extol<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>led
and high, that the most
curious of his perfection
found no other title more
proper to exalt him than that
of the Morning Starre,
Governour of the dawning
of the day, the Sun's Am<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>bassadour.
This then was the
first Thiefe that was in the
world, or before the world,
if it be true that the Angells
were created before time,
who overcome by an ambi<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>tio<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>s
desire, adventured rash<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ly
to robbe God of his glo<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>rie.
But hee was degraded
because Iustice tooke him
in the fact, and seazing upon
all the goods that hee had,
condemned him to perpe<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>tuall
prison, and together
with him all his associats.</p>
               <p>
                  <pb n="98" facs="tcp:27231:60"/>
The second Thiefe that
ever was in the world was
our first father <hi>Adam,</hi> as
bold as the Angell, yet not
so blame-worthie for being
not so malicious in his sin,
and of lesse knowledge, al<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>beit
I cannot be perswaded
that hee was ignorant of the
obedie<g ref="char:cmbAbbrStroke">̄</g>ce, which he owed to
his Creator, having know<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ledge
infused in him. Ne<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>verthelesse
overcome by the
importunate reasons of his
wife, and tormented with an
ambitious curiositie hee was
desirous to steale the know<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ledge
and wisedome of God.
But it fell out as badly to
him as to the Angell, so that
his fleeing and hiding him<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>selfe
served him to no pur<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>pose,
for the Iudge having
asked him, and he not being
<pb n="99" facs="tcp:27231:60"/>
able to deny the fact, for
that he was taken in the
fault, his state of innocencie
and originall justice was
taken away, he and all his
race remaining condemned
to spend their life with
sweate, travell and mishaps,
and his wife to bring forth
her children with sorrow.
And if you aske mee why
God did not equally punish
these two theeves, being
guiltie of treason, and ha<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ving
attempted one and the
same kinde of theft which is
the divine perfection. It was
to this purpose that I have
heard spoken by a great do<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ctour
and Preacher of the
Church; because if God had
punisht man with the same
rigour that hee punisht the
Angell withall, he had de<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>stroied
<pb n="100" facs="tcp:27231:61"/>
an intire nature, seing
that all men sinned in <hi>Adam</hi> &amp;
so the world had remained
imperfect. But in punishing
the Angell, this inco<g ref="char:cmbAbbrStroke">̄</g>venience
followed not, because many
other Angels remained in
heaven, and all the nature of
Angels sinned not, and this is
the cause why God was not
so severe to man as to the An<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>gels:
but you shal better learn
this curiositie from some o<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ther,
who knoweth it better
than I do. It is sufficient that
those aforesaid Theeves were
the first that brought theft in<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>to
credit in the world. And
wee cannot say, that pover<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>tie
and necessitie stirred them
vp to steale, because the first
was the noblest and mighti<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>est
of all the Angells, and
the second was the first of all
<pb n="101" facs="tcp:27231:61"/>
men, King of the living
creatures, and absolute Lord
of the earth. From thence
is brought in the deceite
which to the day, this world
seeth, beleeving that poverty
was the finder out of theft,
seeing it is riches and pro<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>speritie,
because the love &amp;
desire of honour and ri<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ches
groweth so much the
more as it is increased, as a
Poet saith very well. Ambi<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>tion
being an unsatiable fire,
in which how much more
wood is laid, so much the
more it is inflamed, and a
Dropsie, in which the more
one drinketh, the more hee
thirsteth. Even so in those
great theeves, the great riches
and prosperitie which they
had, was the cause of their
unruly appetite, and unsatia<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ble
<pb n="102" facs="tcp:27231:62"/>
ambition, for that they
desiring that which they had
not, they could not attempt
any other theft<g ref="char:punc">▪</g> but the glo<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>rie
and wisedome of God,
seeing they possessed all the
rest. Whence you shall un<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>derstand,
that to steale and
robbe is in a sort naturall to
man, and that it goeth by in<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>heritance,
and propagation
in all the linage of men, and
not by cunning. For if it
be true that we all are parta<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>kers
of <hi>Adams</hi> sinne, his sin
being nothing else but to
robbe God of his know<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ledge,
it is evident, that there
is in vs an inclination, dis<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>position
and naturall desire
to robbe and steale. From
<hi>Adam</hi> this profession was
extended to all his posteri<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>tie,
being alwayes kept on
<pb n="103" facs="tcp:27231:62"/>
foote amongst the most no<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ble
and best qualified of all
his children. So <hi>Cain,</hi> as
jealous of this originall ver<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>tue,
would needs steale from
his brother <hi>Abel</hi> the grace
and particular favour with
which God received his ob<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>lations
and sacrifices. <hi>Iacob</hi>
cunningly rob'd the blessing
from his brother <hi>Esau,</hi> and
it went well with him. <hi>David</hi>
the wife of <hi>Vriah. Achab</hi>
though himselfe a rich King
stole <hi>Naboths</hi> Vineyard. And
finally <hi>Nimrod</hi> by theft sub<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>dued
all the Inhabitants of
<hi>Assyria.</hi> And if leaving these
and other Theeves almost
innumerable, which holy
writing relate unto us, wee
take the examples that
humane histories rehearse
unto us, we shall see that this
<pb n="104" facs="tcp:27231:63"/>
singular Art hath beene al<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>wayes
preserved among the
Nobilitie, sith <hi>Paris</hi> stole
<hi>Helen,</hi> ravisht before that by
<hi>Theseus;</hi> The same <hi>Theseus</hi>
stole <hi>Ariadne,</hi> and <hi>Iason
Medea.</hi> The <hi>Lacedemoni<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ans,</hi>
of whose policie and
good government <hi>Plutarch</hi>
maketh honorable mention
had this laudable and vertu<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ous
custome of stealing, and
hee that was most cunning
and subtile in that Art, was
in greatest account and esti<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>mation
amongst them. The
very mothers taught their
children, while they were but
little ones, to steale, holding
it for an infallible point of
policie, that they could never
be good and brave souldiers,
if they had not beene cun<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ning
and well experienced
<pb n="105" facs="tcp:27231:63"/>
theeves. I will not tarrie
now to tell the name and re<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>putation
which <hi>Vircat</hi> got
himselfe by his thefts, nor
the renowne which <hi>Crocota</hi>
deserved by them in the time
of <hi>Augustus Caesar,</hi> for
I should never
have done.</p>
            </div>
            <div n="6" type="chapter">
               <pb n="106" facs="tcp:27231:64"/>
               <head>CHAP. VI.</head>
               <head type="sub">The theefe followeth his histo<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>rie
proving that all men of
what qualitie so ever
are Theeves.</head>
               <p>
                  <seg rend="decorInit">T</seg>His Noble profes<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>sion
of stealing
hath evermore (as
I have said) beene
held in high esteeme amongst
the greatest and best qualifi<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ed
men of the world: but as
there is no kinde of vertue
nor noblenesse, which is not
envied by the vulgar, it be<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>came
in time so ordinarie &amp;
common that there was not
so very a Butcher or Porter
<pb n="107" facs="tcp:27231:64"/>
who would not imitate the
Nobilitie in their thefts.
Whence and from the little
discretion and exceeding
great boldnesse that then
was amongst people, it was
one time so disdained and
disliked that those who did
openly follow it, were puni<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>shed
with shamefull paines
and accounted infamous.
But as all things of the
world have their contrary
weights; time would needs
finde a remedie for this a<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>buse,
seeking meanes to steale
without punishment, and so
disguised, that not only theft
seemed not vice, but was e<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>steemed
a rare and singular
vertue. To this end many
brave spirits invented the
diversitie of Offices and
charges which to this day are
<pb n="108" facs="tcp:27231:65"/>
exercised in the world, ev<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>
                  <g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ry
one of which serveth <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap>
a maske or cloake to mak<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>
his harvest and inrich him<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>selfe
with another ma<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>
goods. And to the end tha<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>
you may not judge my word
rash, nor my proposition to<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>
bold, runne, I pray you, ove<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>
all states that are in the
Common-wealth, and you
shall finde that wee all are
the children of <hi>Adam.</hi> For
I thus argue. That man that
hath an Office of a thousand
Crownes of rent, without
any other living, pension or
patrimonie, &amp; holds a house
for which hee payes eight
hundreth Crownes a yeare,
keepes a horse &amp; two Pages
and a footeman, his wife and
two waiting Gentlewomen,
his children and a Master to
<pb n="109" facs="tcp:27231:65"/>
                  <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>ach them, who to keepe
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>ll this traine hath neede
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>f more then a thousand
crownes every yeare, yet
notwithstanding with all
this charge he is found at the
yeares end with two suites of
apparell, free from debts &amp;
with five hundreth crownes
of gaine, and yet it rained
no more on his field than on
other mens, nor hath he in<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>herited
any thing of any of
his parents or friends. <hi>Ergo</hi>
a Theefe. A Tailer that eats
more than it cost him, and
at sixe yeares end gives ten
thousand crownes portion
in marriage with his daugh<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ter,
never medling with other
trade save his needle and his
sheeres. <hi>Ergo</hi> a Theefe. A
Shooe-maker that keepes six
prentices in his shop, and
<pb n="110" facs="tcp:27231:66"/>
workes but foure daies <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap>
weeke; and those not wholl<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>
at three yeares end that tw<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>
tenements builded in th<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>
fairest streets of the towne
every one of which <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap>
worth two him three hun<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>dreth
pounds of yearely
rent, without any other
stocke, but that of his leather
<hi>Ergo</hi> a Theefe. The Cler<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>e
who for every sheete of pa<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>per
that he writes hath but
a shilling, and who writes
scarcely, sixe moneths of the
whole yeare, which are hard<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ly
ended but hee is seene to
have his Velvet stooles, da<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>maske
courtains, silke-hang<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ings,
and other rich orna<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ments,
which never came to
him by heritage. <hi>Ergo</hi> a
Theefe. Of the same kinde
you shal find in all Offices gi<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ving
<pb n="111" facs="tcp:27231:66"/>
you to understand, that
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap> doe not speake here of the
good and honest, but of the
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>ewd and baser sort, who
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>linded with profit and gain
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>reade under their feete the
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>eare of God, the love of
their neighbour, and the
truth of their own co<g ref="char:cmbAbbrStroke">̄</g>science
(who force the poore and
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>eedy to take sixe pence for
that, which they sell in their
shops for twelue pence) &amp; it
is, I say, of those by whom the
evills, that I have mentioned
ought to be understood. And
by reason that the great at<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>tention
with which you doe
harken to my reasons, dis<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>covereth
the desire that you
have to know all that can
be said upon this subject, I
will shew briefly the inven<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>tion
and deceits which the
<pb n="112" facs="tcp:27231:67"/>
naughtie Tradesmen use for
to robbe and steale.</p>
               <p>The Tailer stealeth asking
a third part more of cloth,
then there needeth to make
a sute of: and when he that
putteth it out to making,
presuming to be wise e<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>nough
for the Tailer, would
be by to see it cut, he vexeth
him, and casts a mist over his
eyes marking foure houres
along the peece and over<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>thwart,
and when hee hath
at last dazeld him with a
great many strokes and lines
with his chalke, hee throw<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>eth
a false ply under the
sheeres with which at the
cutting of a paire of breeches
one breech abideth with him
for his gain, besides buttons,
silke, lace, and lynings.</p>
               <p>The linnen Weaver stea<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>leth
<pb n="113" facs="tcp:27231:67"/>
in asking more yarne
than the web hath neede of,
laying fiftie ells instead of
five and fortie and with the
remainder of many broken
threeds he pincheth out the
length, which makes worth
to him the eight part, all
which he stealeth.</p>
               <p>The Cordwainer restoreth
with his teeth that which hee
stealeth with his—biting
and drawing thinne the lea<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ther,
so that of one paire of
shooes which one giveth him
to make, there resteth to him
at least an upper lether or a
heele for a third. And if the
lether be his owne, he sets on
a rotten soale with rotten
threed, to the end it may be
the sooner spoil'd and fall
off, which I thinke but stea<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ling.</p>
               <p>
                  <pb n="114" facs="tcp:27231:68"/>
The Physitian and the
Chirurgion both steale, the
one appointing and th'other
applying plasters, which feed
the disease and make it worse
to the end that the time of
the cure continning long,
the fees may be the greater
and the more.</p>
               <p>The Apothecarie stealeth
with a <hi>quid pro quo</hi>—put<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ting
in one drugge for ano<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ther,
and taking that which
is cheapest, not considering
what humour should be pur<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ged,
and what vertue the
drugge hath which he apply<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>eth,
in which hee stealeth
the honour and reputation
of the Physitian, and the sick
persons life. And if haply any
call for an oile which he hath
not, he wil not faile to give of
that which hee hath for oile
<pb n="115" facs="tcp:27231:68"/>
of—or other costly oyle
which any shall have asked
them, that they may not
lose the credit of their shop.</p>
               <p>The Marchant stealeth in
putting out his money upon
use, taking more than the sta<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>tute
alloweth, and writing
downe in his booke such a
debt, which, it may be, shall
be thrice paid,</p>
               <p>The Notary stealeth with
an (&amp;c. <hi>Et coetera)</hi> a whole
Lordship, and if there be a
question of any criminall
processe, the Scrivener for
money that he shall take of a
forfeit, will sell the soule of
the poore innocent.</p>
               <p>The Counsellour &amp; the At<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>turney
steale selling a thou<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>sand
lies to the poore client,
making him to understand,
that he shall win his cause, al<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>beit
<pb n="116" facs="tcp:27231:69"/>
they see cleerely that he
hath no right at all; and
many times it falleth out that
the Lawyer agreeth with ano<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ther
to sell the parties right
and part the gaine betweene
them.</p>
               <p>The Iudge stealeth Iustice
from this man, having pitie
on him, who by some bribe
shall have already corrupted
him, wresting violently the
texts of <hi>Bartole</hi> and <hi>Baldus</hi>
for his own profit.</p>
               <p>The Drugster and other
Marchants, that sell by
weight steale, putting under
the scale a very thinne plate
of leade, where they put that
which they would weigh,
with which they shew that
there is more then weight,
albeit there be many ounces,
and when they doe not that,
<pb n="117" facs="tcp:27231:69"/>
with their little finger they
touch the tongue of the bal<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>lance
with which they make
the scale sway to what side
they will.</p>
               <p>The Vintner stealeth a
hundreth thousand wayes,
mixing and blending one
wine with another, beside
the water that hee putteth a<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>mongst
it, and when his wine
by the force of so much
mingling and watering hath
his strength, hee hangeth a<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>mongst
the lees a little bagge
full of Cloves, Pepper, Gin<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ger
and other spices, with
which he makes it still seeme
to be good.</p>
               <p>The Butcher also stealeth
blowing up his meate with
a Cane, that so they may
seeme the bigger, and that
he may sell them at a deerer
<pb n="118" facs="tcp:27231:70"/>
rate than they are worth.</p>
               <p>The Treasurer stealeth the
third part, yea the halfe of
a pension, when a poore
needie man asketh him,
because that hee, who should
receive it, being drown'd in
debt or charged with some
vrgent necessitie, denieth not
to give the halfe, nor makes
he any conscience to de<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>mand
it.</p>
               <p>The Marshall stealeth ta<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>king
a poore harmelesse man,
and laying him in hold never
telling him for what, and at
the end of three or foure
dayes that hee keepeth him
in a chaine, sends a Divell of
those that belong to the pri<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>son,
to tell him that hee is
accused for making of false
coine, and that there are ten
witnesses who have given e<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>vidence
<pb n="119" facs="tcp:27231:70"/>
against him: but that
for the respect of some of
his friends, hee will set him
at libertie some evening, if
he will give him a hundreth
Crownes to give content to
the witnesses, and to make
them in some sort to hold
their tongues, whereby the
poore wretch being sore af<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>frighted,
selleth all to the
shirt on his backe to be rid
of so great affliction.</p>
               <p>The Courtier stealeth the
report of a favorite, ascri<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>bing
to himselfe that which
another receiveth: be<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>cause
being loaded with
feathers, brussing up him<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>selfe,
poised and straighter
than a spindle he goeth to the
Court, and hearing, at the
gate, or in the Court-yarde
where the Pages waite, some
<pb n="120" facs="tcp:27231:71"/>
newes, hee returneth to see
his friends, and gives them
to understand, that the King
drew him aside, speaking se<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>cretly
to him two houres,
and amongst other things
hee told the newes that hee
brings.</p>
               <p>The Perfumer stealeth
mingling the perfumes and
multiplying the Muske with
a Cowes liver r<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>sted, the
Amber-grees with sope and
sand, and the Sivet with
some Butter.</p>
               <p>The Priest stealeth, saying
foure Masses instead of forty
for which hee hath bin paid
beside the monie that he re<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ceives
for yearely Masses
for the dead, Answers and
other duties which he never
remembers.</p>
               <p>The Religious (Monkes
<pb n="121" facs="tcp:27231:71"/>
and Friers) steale whole pa<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>trimonies,
assaulting with a
grave countenance and a
wry necke a poore sicke man
at the point of death, and
laying before him a moun<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>taine
of doubts and burthens
of conscience, turning and
stirring them up to pious
deeds, applying to their own
Monasterie all that which he
was bound to restore, with<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>out
ever making any scruple
of conscience to leave halfe
a dozen of Orphans defea<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ted
of their inheritance, and
the sicke mans wife to live
upon almes.</p>
               <p>The Preacher stealeth, pic<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>king
from S. <hi>Thomas</hi> and S.
<hi>Austin</hi> the best of their
workes, and having robbed
them to their very thoughts,
selleth in the Pulpit their
<pb n="122" facs="tcp:27231:72"/>
doctrine as though it were
his owne making himselfe
the inventor and author of
that which belongeth not
unto him.</p>
               <p>The Blind man stealeth
the halfe of every song that
he singeth, because that ha<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ving
received money from
him that biddeth him sing,
and it seeming to him that
he is gone from him three
or foure paces, he beginneth
againe his first tune, and as<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>keth
a new that some body
would make him sing an<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>other.</p>
               <p>The Begger stealeth telling
a thousand lyes to him that
giveth the almes, saying
that he hath bin robbed, that
he hath beene sicke, that his
father is in prison, and coun<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>
                  <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>erfeiting
himself lame, with
<pb n="123" facs="tcp:27231:72"/>
which hee pulleth from men
their almes.</p>
               <p>Finally, all doe steale, and
every handy-crafts man hath
his own invention and parti<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>cular
subtiltie to this effect:
but seeing there is no rule so
generall, that hath not its ex<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ception,
wee may exclude
from the number of Theeves
all those that have a good
conscience, as foote-men,
Hostlers, Cookes, Sergeants,
Iailers, Under-jaillers,
Panders, Bawdes,
Ruffians and
Whores.</p>
            </div>
            <div n="7" type="chapter">
               <pb n="124" facs="tcp:27231:73"/>
               <head>CHAP. VII.</head>
               <head type="sub">Of the difference and variety
of Theeves.</head>
               <p>
                  <seg rend="decorInit">A</seg>Ll the Theeves a<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>foresaid
are called
discreete, because
that every one in
his place striveth to cover
theft the best hee can, trans<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>forming
it into Nobilitie and
vertue, and this manner of
stealing is the safest and most
secret. Of these there is as
great varietie and difference,
as there are severall Offices
in the Common-weale, yea
there are other Theeves who
<pb n="125" facs="tcp:27231:73"/>
steale openly and without
maske: who, although they
are not so many in number
as the former, are notwith<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>standing
moe, and their dif<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ferences
are as many as there
are inventions to steale, which
being redacted into a shorter
number, are divided into Rob<g ref="char:EOLunhyphen"/>bers,
Staffadours, drawers
of Wooll, Grunets, Apostles
Cigarets, Dacians, Mallets
Cut-purses, Satyrs, Devont,
and Governours of the
House.</p>
               <p>The Robbers steale upon
the high wayes and solitarie
places with great cruelty and
tyrannie, because that sel<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>dome
doe they robbe with<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>out
killing, fearing to be dis<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>covered
and followed by
justice. The meanes &amp; slights
that they have to coine to
<pb n="126" facs="tcp:27231:74"/>
their purposes are diverse
for sometimes they will fol<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>low
a man fifteene dayes
never losing the sight of
him, waiting while hee goe
out of the towne. And the
better to over-reach him one
of the companie goeth dis<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>guised
in a Marchants-habit,
a guest of the same Inne,
with a certaine packe of old
cloth, or some other inventi<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>on,
giving to understand that
he is a strange country Mar<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>chant,
and feareth to travell
alone. With this lye he fal<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>leth
into discourse with the
poore Marchant or passen<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ger
craftily getting out of
him, that which hee desireth
to know, &amp; learning whence
he is, whether he goeth, what
Marchandise he carrieth, or
what businesse he goeth, a<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>bout,
<pb n="127" facs="tcp:27231:74"/>
and when he is to be
gone, whereof giving notice
to his companions, they lye
in waite for him at some
place most convenient for
their purpose. O<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>hers
make themselues lurking
holes behinde some bushes,
growne up to the thicknesse
of a wood, and when they
perceive a far off, or by some
spie, a passenger, they lay in
the middle of the way a
purse made fast, some shew
of money, or a little bud<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>get,
that in the meane time
while he alighteth and staieth
to take it up, they may come
timely enough to take from
him that he carrieth. Others
being hid in the most secret
places of the high way, send
one of their companie in
Carriers clothes, who seeing
<pb n="128" facs="tcp:27231:75"/>
the Passenger approach
stayes to looke on him, and
making shew to know him
and to have some letters for
him, &amp; holding him in talke,
bufieth him in such fashion,
that the others have the
time and meanes to surround
him. Others lying some<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>what
out of the way, faigne
a lamentable and pitifull
voyce, with which they tye
the passenger to stay, and to
goe see what it is, and while
he that makes this moane de<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ceitfully
declareth his griefe,
the ambush leapeth out that
strippeth him to his shirt.</p>
               <p>Your Staffadours are a
second sort of robbers, little
differing from the former,
though more courteous, and
not so bloudy; those goe
calmely into the house of
<pb n="129" facs="tcp:27231:75"/>
some Marchant, and not
finding him there, seeke for
him at great leasure, at the
Exchange, in the fields, at
Church, and in the middle of
a thousand people, drawes
neere to him softly talking
in his eare, making as though
hee would communicate to
him some-busines of great im<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>portance,
and shewing him a
Dagger, saith, this Dagger
demandeth a hundreth
crownes, brought to such
a place, such a day, and if
you doe it not, you shall
die for it. The poore Mar<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>chant
sore affrighted by
such words dareth not to
misse, for feare to be killed.</p>
               <p>The Wooll-drawers take
their name from the theft
they practise, which is to
snatch cloakes in the night,
<pb n="130" facs="tcp:27231:76"/>
and these have no other cu<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>
                  <g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ning
save the occasion: they
goe ever by threes or foure<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>
betweene nine or ten a cloc<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>
at night, and if they do finde
a fit opportunitie they let <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap>
not slip. Most commonly
they come forth to snatch
cloakes in the darkest and
rainest nights, and to them
places which they see is most
quiet and most out of the
way, at least upon the one
side, to the end that the
neighbours may not come
forth (at the outcryes and
noise which the robbed are
commonly wont to make)
and take them. These same
are accustomed sometimes
to go in Lackeyes clothes to
come in to some Maske or
feast, making shew to looke
for their Masters, and with
<pb n="131" facs="tcp:27231:76"/>
this liberty, they meete with
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap> heape of cloakes, that the
Gentlemen use to leave in
the Hall, being sure that no<g ref="char:EOLunhyphen"/>body
will meddle with them
they in the view of all in the
place, nimbly take up two
or three on their shoulders,
and get them gone with
them, saluting all those
whom they meete, with Cap
in hand.</p>
               <p>The Grumets take their
name from the likenesse that
they have to those young
boyes in ships, who clime
up with great nimblenesse,
by the tacklings to the top
of the Mast; and the sailers
call them Cats or Grumets.
Those that beare this name
steale by night, climing up
lightly, by a ladder of ropes,
at the end of which they
<pb n="132" facs="tcp:27231:77"/>
have two little hookes o<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>
iron, to the end that throw<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ing
them up to the window;
it may catch hold there and
they easily get up and empty
the house. These runne a<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>bout
the City and the Cou<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>
                  <g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>try,
stealing not onely gold
and silver, but also Wheate,
Rye, Barley, Oates, and fi<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>nally
all that ever they doe
finde, and when they have
plaid their prize, they cun<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ningly
tye a line made fast to
the point of the little hookes,
which, after they are come
downe, they drawing, the
two hookes are raised and
the ladder falleth, without
ever leaving any print or
marke of the theft.</p>
               <p>The Apostles take their
name from S. <hi>Peter,</hi> because
that even as hee beares the
<pb n="133" facs="tcp:27231:77"/>
keyes of Heaven, so also
they ordinarily carry a pick<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>locke
or vniversall key with
which they open all manner
of doores, and because of too
much noise, that the locke
may not rattle, and awaken
the people a sleep, they put in
a plate of leade with which
they breake it in peeces, so
that they who lie neerest can
perceive nothing.</p>
               <p>Those whom they call Ci<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>garets,
have for their particu<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>lar
office to haunt Churches
feasts and publique assem<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>blies,
at which they cut off
the halfe of a cloake, cassock
sleeves, halfe a gowne, the
quarter of a jumpe and final<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ly
whatsoever they finde,
for of all these they make
money.</p>
               <p>The Devout are Church-theeves,
<pb n="134" facs="tcp:27231:78"/>
because there are no
Easters, Pardons, nor Iubilie
which they visite not: they
are continually on their
knees in the Monasteries,
having their beades in their
hands, to cloake their knave<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ry,
waiting their time, either
under some Altar, or be<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>hinde
some table, on the eeve
of some solemne feast, to the
end that they may get out
by night.—and to spoile
the image of all the orna<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ments
about them. In this
sort of theft they do more<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>over
adventure into the Mo<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>nasteries
of the Religious as
well as into other Churches,
because that as they cha<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ritable,
and feare to be ac<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>counted
disorderly, they sel<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>dome
put a theefe into the
hands of justice, and for all
<pb n="135" facs="tcp:27231:78"/>
the mischiefe that hee com<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>mits
a man getteth out of
their hands, chastised with
one onely discipline all a<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>bout
the Cloisters by a pro<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>cession
of Monks who charge
him, after his amendment,
to feare God.</p>
               <p>The Satyrs are men li<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ving
wilde in the fields, that
keepe their holds and dwel<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ling
in the Countrey and
forsaken places, stealing
horses, kine, sheepe and all
kinde of cattle which by oc<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>casion
come in their walke.</p>
               <p>The Dacians are cruell,
mercilesse people, held in
our common-weales in lesse
account than th'other
theeves: these steale children
of three or foure yeares old,
and breaking their armes and
legges lame and disfigure
<pb n="126" facs="tcp:27231:79"/>
them, that they may after<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>wards
sell them to Beggers,
Blinde folkes and other va<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>gabonds.</p>
               <p>The Overseers of the
house have this name fro<g ref="char:cmbAbbrStroke">̄</g> the
particular care that they have
to looke out for provision of
bread, meate, and other vi<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>
                  <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>tualls
to feede their com<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>panions,
and as there is not
any thing in the world that
a man loveth better than to
eate and drinke, the inventi<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ons
and meanes that theeves
have, are so severall and so
exquisite that it is impossible
to <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>ell them all. Some are ac<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>customed
three or foure to
meete in the twilight at night
and taking a bottle of five or
sixe pottles with a fourth
part of water in it, they goe
to a Taverne bidding
<pb n="127" facs="tcp:27231:79"/>
them fill the bottle with the
wine in the house, and having
agreed for the price, the
poore Vintner beginneth to
measure while it be almost
full, then they make shew of
a desire to taste it, if it be the
wine that they bought at the
beginning, and scarcely have
they tasted it when bending
their browes, casting up
their eyes and wrying their
nose they cry out at the
wretched Vintner, saying
that he is a theefe and a de<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ceiver,
who hath changed
them their wine. The poore
fellow seeing that his oathes
and curses availe nothing, is
content to take his wine again
and to take out the bottle the
measures that hee had put in,
by which meanes they have
a fourth part left so well sea<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>soned
<pb n="128" facs="tcp:27231:80"/>
that it may passe for
wine of sixe pence a quart.
Other whiles they goe five
or sixe in companie to the
Taverne with two great pots
so like th'one to the other,
that very hardly can there
any difference be perceived
betweene them; they carry
th'one emptie and the other
full of water under his cloak,
and biddes them fill the em<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ptie
one with the best wine
that they have, never taking
care for the price, and it be<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ing
full, the one of them takes
it under his cloake, and the
other staies reckoning with
the Vintner, holding his purse
in his hand and making shew
to pay him: being upon
these termes, the others come
in, and aske alowd whether
or no they shall suppe there,
<pb n="129" facs="tcp:27231:80"/>
which the Vintner seeing,
allured presently by the
gaine that hee shall make if
they suppe at his house, per<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>swades
them to stay, and they
take his counsell determining
to goe to the Cookes to buy
some joynt for supper, and
to call backe the rest of their
comerads, leaving the pot
full of water to the Vintner,
that he may keepe it in the
meane while till they come
backe, with which he remai<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>neth
contented and well assu<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>red,
thinking hith himselfe,
that though they never re<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>turne,
the pot notwithstan<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ding
shall remaine with him
for his gaines.</p>
               <p>As for the provision of
flesh, poulterie and other
things they have a thousand
inventions, whereof I will
<pb n="130" facs="tcp:27231:81"/>
tell you one only which
hapned long agoe to one of
my copsemates. It was,
if I rightly remember, on a
holy Saturdayes market, in
which they sold great store
of Hennes, Partridges, Rab<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>bets,
Pullets and other things
against the feastivall day.
Three of the company went
out to seeke for provision,
dividing themselves every
one to his owne walke, the
two met with a Countrey-Clown
loaded with Capons
and Partridges, which were
in the market; one of them
drew neare to buy up all that
he had, &amp; cheapning a quar<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ter
of an houre with the
Clowne, agreed to give him
ten Nobles for all his ware,
giving it to his fellow to car<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ry
it home, and he stayed be<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>hinde
<pb n="131" facs="tcp:27231:81"/>
with his hand in his
pocket, making as if he would
pay him. He searcheth both
the sides, of his hose, draw<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ing
out first a great purse,
next a little one, afterwards a
hand-kercher tyed in knots
with some papers folded up,
with which he inchanted the
Clown, and gave his com<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>panion
time and leasure
enough to get him out of
sight, and at last not finding
in all his budgets the whole
summe, he bids the Clowne
follow him and he should
pay him. The Clown was
content, and beginneth to
follow him with diligence,
and almost on the trot, be<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>cause
that as my Compani<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>on
had an intention, to get
out of sight crossing the
streets and lanes he walk't
<pb n="132" facs="tcp:27231:82"/>
a-pace with posting speede.
But seeing himselfe so close<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ly
followed by the Clown
he went into the Cloister of
the <hi>Austin</hi> Friers, where
there were some Friers con<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>fessing
folkes, and having
made a devout prayer, hee
turned himselfe towards the
Clown, saying to him, My
friend, the provision that
you have sold me is for this
House, and that Father, who
is there a confessing is the
Proctour, I will goe tell him
that he must pay you; and
speaking thus, he comes to
one of the Confessors with
the Clown after him, and
turning a little aside hee put
sixe pence into his hand, and
whispers him in the eare say<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ing,
Father, this country man
is one of my acquaintance,
<pb n="133" facs="tcp:27231:82"/>
and commeth hither to be
confest, he lives sixe miles
hence, and he must of neces<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>sitie
goe backe to his house
this evening, I beseech you
to do me the favour to con<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>fesse
him out of hand and let
him goe. The good Father
obliged by the almes given
aforehand, promist him, that
when hee had ended the
penitents confession whom
he had at his feete, hee should
dispatch him presently. With
this answer, he called to the
Clown, and said to him,
friend, the Father will dis<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>patch
you by and by, when
he hath made an end of con<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>fessing
this man, to which
the Father added goe, not
hence, I will give you con<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>tent
presently. With these
words my companion par<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>ed
<pb n="134" facs="tcp:27231:83"/>
from them, and the Country<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>man
staid, reckoning on his
singers the money that hee
should lay out on shooes, hat
and other trifles which hee
minded to buy as well for
himselfe, as for his familie
out of his Poultry money.
The penitent makes an end
of his confession, and the fa<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ther
makes a signe to the
Clown to draw neere; the
Clown was not in so trem<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>bling
a perplexitie, with so
great hast as those who come
to confession, which the
good father was much of<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>fended
at, it seeming to him
that he had little devotion
and lesse humility to be con<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>fest.
The Clown stood bolt
upright, looking heedfully
upon the Confessor, to see if
he should put his hand in his
<pb n="135" facs="tcp:27231:83"/>
pocket, and the Confessor
look't upon the Clown in
like manner, astonisht to see
him stand with so little devo<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>tion.
Notwithstanding excu<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>sing
him because of simpli<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>citie
which is ordinarie to
these Country people, hee
biddes him, kneele. The
Clowne at the beginning
made some resistance, think<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ing
it to be an extraordinarie
ceremonie for one to kneele
to receive money, neverthe<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>lesse
at last he did it though
grumbling. The father bids
him make the signe of the
Crosse, and say his confessi<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>on,
whereat the Clown lost
all patience, beleeving the
Confessor to be out of his
wits, and standing up begin<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>neth
to mumble within his
teeth and to sweare with
<pb n="136" facs="tcp:27231:84"/>
great obstinacie. This assu<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>red
the Confessor that the
Clown was possest with a
Devill, and having made the
signe of the Crosse begin<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>neth
to conjure him, putting
S. <hi>Austins</hi> girdle about his
head, and saying some devout
prayers, with which the
Clowne went out of his
wits, taking the good Father
by the surplis and casting
him down upon the ground,
demanding aloud mony for
his poultry. The father sup<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>posing
that hee had all the
fiends of Hell together upon
him, beginneth to say, the
Letanie with a weake and af<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>frighted
voyce, and to com<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>mend
himselfe to all the
Saints in the Almanacke,
praying them to aid him. At
the clamour and noise, the
<pb n="137" facs="tcp:27231:84"/>
whole Convent began to be
troubled, all the Monkes
comming out in procession
with the Crosse and the Can<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>dlestickes,
casting holy wa<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ter
on every side, and belee<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ving
that there was a Legion
of Devils in the Church.
They came thither where
the Confessour was at debate
with the Clown, who still
was asking money, for his
Poultry, &amp; the Prior having
asked the Co<g ref="char:cmbAbbrStroke">̄</g>fessour concer<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ning
this accident &amp; having
also heard the Clownes rea<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>son,
the justice of them both
was discover'd with my Co<g ref="char:cmbAbbrStroke">̄</g>
                  <g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>panions
wicked deede. In the
endsome devout persons who
were in the Church, paid the
Clown his monies who went
backe contented unto his
house.</p>
            </div>
            <div n="8" type="chapter">
               <pb n="138" facs="tcp:27231:85"/>
               <head>CHAP. VIII.</head>
               <head type="sub">The Theefe continueth the
differences among Theeves
with three disgraces
that befell him.</head>
               <p>
                  <seg rend="decorInit">T</seg>He Cut-purses are
the commonest
Theeves of our
Common-weale,
who have an endlesse deale
of meanes and wayes to
steale. All their studie con<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>sisteth
in thrusting their hand
in the pocket of whom they
approach, and cunningly to
draw his Purse from him (he
not perceiving it) with all
<pb n="139" facs="tcp:27231:85"/>
that hee hath in it. These
haunt the Churches, Ser<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>mons,
Faires, Assemblies &amp;
publicke meetings, that they
may worke their feate in the
throng, he that takes the
purse gives it presently to
another that is by him, that
if he should be taken with
his hand in his pocket, he
might prove them lyars and
cleare himselfe before all the
world.</p>
               <p>I will tell you a wittie
tricke which I once plotted,
though it fell out but badly
by me, seeing that the heed<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>fulnesse,
with which you
hearken to me, makes me
know that you are not wearie
to heare me. The last yeere
there came to <hi>London</hi> a Mar<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>chant
of <hi>Italie,</hi> rich, courte<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ous
and of good carriage,
<pb n="140" facs="tcp:27231:86"/>
who being in rouled by our
spies I tooke the charge upon
me to deale with him. I rose
that day betimes in the
morning, lest I should lose
the occasion, and after I
had dog'd him through
many streets, Lanes and
Churches (for he was veri<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ly
a good Christian) wee
came to a crowd of Mar<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>chants
wont to be kept in
the Exchange about eleven
a clock, seeing him alone, I
came to him, talking to him of
a bargaine very profitable
&amp; certaine, which made him
open his eyes, and listen
heedfully to my reasons.
Then seeing him thus fitted
to my inventions, I winded
him gently into a Maze of
difficulties, in such sort, that
I never ceast to declare to
<pb n="141" facs="tcp:27231:86"/>
him the businesse, nor he
to learne the circumstances.
My Camerade then drew
neare making shew as if he
knew me not; and to be de<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>sirous
to interpret the traffick
for him which I had pro<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>pounded,
whereupon the
Marchant began to take no
more heede to me, and I to
thinke evermore of him. I
put secretly my fingers in
his pocket to try the depth
and breadth thereof, &amp; per<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ceived
that it and its Masters
little care gave me free liber<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ty
to put in all my hand. I did
so and at the first essay, I
drew his purse, at the second
a silver Watch, which he car<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ried
tied to a small gold-chaine,
with which I might
have bin content if stealing
could be limited. I was resol<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ved
<pb n="142" facs="tcp:27231:87"/>
to try the third time, to
see if I could draw thence
a Holland hankercher, which
before he had shewed edged
with curious bonelace, but I
could not be so nimble to
draw it, nor my Compani<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>on
to hold him in talke, but
he felt me, and running to
save his pocket with his hand
he could not misse but meete
with mine, wherewith being
vext and suspitious, he pre<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>sently
knew that he had lost
his purse and his Watch, and
not finding them he tooke me
by the necke, crying A theefe
A theefe. I foreseeing the
evill that might befall mee
(for <hi>Astrologie</hi> is very neces<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>sary
for a Theefe) had given
the purse and Watch from
underneath my cloake to my
companion, as soone as ever
<pb n="143" facs="tcp:27231:87"/>
I had drawne it, who was
but only two steps from me:
Wherefore with the assu<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>rance
that I had, that he
would finde about me that
which he sought, I scorned
all he said, giving him the lie
a thousand times. The Mar<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>chant
holding me fast by the
coller, with a loude voyce
calling for his purse, in such
sort that he made all upon
the place to gather together.
But my Camerade seeing
that my honor runne a great
hazard, if the businesse should
be proved amongst so many
people, secretly calls a crier
who was at a corner of the
place, whom he made cry,
If any one had lost a purse
and a silver Watch, that he
should come to him, &amp; give
true tokens therof, he would
<pb n="144" facs="tcp:27231:88"/>
restore them, and withall de<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>parted
the place. Hardly
was the sound of the first
cry heard but my good <hi>Ita<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>lian</hi>
let me goe, intreating me
with great humilitie to for<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>give
him the rash judgement
conceived of me, which I
did at the request of the com<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>panie,
and presently got me
out of sight. He went as
nimble as a Roe to seeke for
the cryer, and having found
him he gave the true tokens
of his losse, but he that had
bid him doe it could not be
found any more; and so I e<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>scaped
this dangerous acci<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>dent.</p>
               <p>The Duendes a <hi>Larins</hi> so
called for the likenesse that
they have with the spirits of
this name, begin to walke
through the towne in the
<pb n="145" facs="tcp:27231:88"/>
evening, and finding some
doore open, they enter soft<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ly,
hiding themselves in the
Cellar, in the stable, or in
some other dark secret place,
to the end they may throw
out at windowes all that is in
the house, when those within
are fast a-sleepe. I adventured
once to play such a pranke,
and turne my selfe in an An<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>gell
of darkenesse, but I was
deceived. It fell out then,
that one night on the Eeve
of a high holy-day I went
to seeke my fortune, my
mishap made me meete with
a doore halfe open, into
which thrusting my head I
saw that all my body might
enter, I went up a paire of
staires to a great Chamber
well furnisht and fitted, and
thinking that it was a safe
<pb n="146" facs="tcp:27231:89"/>
course for me to hide my
selfe under a bed, while these
of the house were gone to
rest, I did so. After foure
houres that I had laien all a<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>long
on the flower, I heard
a noyse of folks, comming
up suddenly into the Cham<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ber,
you neede not aske if I
was heedfull to see who they
were, and by and by with
the light of a Candle I saw
the feete of two footmen
and one maide laying the
cloth with great diligence,
and were making of a fire,
because the Master of the
house was to suppe there.
The table furnish't with sun<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>dry
dishes of meate, foure or
five sate downe, besides the
children that were in the
house. I was then so affrigh<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ted
and confounded, that I
<pb n="147" facs="tcp:27231:89"/>
thinke verily if the noise of
their voyces and the great
number of children had not
hindred them, they might
have heard plainely the bea<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ting
of my joynts, because
my buttockes beate so hard
one against the other, that I
thinke the noise might have
bin heard halfe a mile off. By
mischance there was a little
dogge, that runne about
gnawing the bones that fell
from the table, and one of
the children having thrown
him a bone, a Cat that
watch't under the table was
more nimble to catch it with
which she run away to hide
her under the bed, the dog
grinning and pressing to take
the bone from her, but the
Cat could so well use her
clawes and defend her prize,
<pb n="148" facs="tcp:27231:90"/>
that having given the Dog
on the nose two or three
blowes with her paw, there
began so great a skirmish, and
there was such a hurly burly
between them, that one of
the waiters tooke a great fire<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>shouell
that was in the <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap> him.
ney and cast it so furiously
under the bed, that if, as it
gave me over the nose with
the broad side, it had lighted
on me with the end, it had
kill'd me out-right. The blow
was so great, that I was a<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>bove
halfe an houre ere I
could come to my selfe, but
it made the Cat come out
like a thunder from under the
bed, and the Dog staied
grinning and barking with
such a fury that neither faw<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ning
nor threatning of
mine could quiet him, wher<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>at
<pb n="149" facs="tcp:27231:90"/>
the waiters at table were
so vext that they began
to chase him out, throwing
fire-brands at him, which
made him come out from
under the bed, and leave me
there in the pangs of death.
The Dogges noise was done,
and there began another in
my guts, so violent, that to
stay the sudden rumbling of
a flux in my belly, which
the apprehension and feare
had moved I was constrai<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ned
to sneeze thrice, &amp; with
the force of my sneezing to
wrong my breeches by the
liberty of that unjust vio<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>lence.
These two noises met
together, and making one of
two, increast so much the
force, that it made all at
table rise, and take off the
Candles, to see what was this
<pb n="150" facs="tcp:27231:91"/>
novelty. They pulled me
out, but I could give no rea<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>son
that could be heard, nor
humble suing that could be
admitted, so I remained sub<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ject
to the rigour of their
vengeance, they stript me
starke naked and binding me
hand and foote, they began
to scorch me with a lighted
Torch not without loud
laughing, and after they had
satisfied their furious passion,
they put me in the hands of
Iustice, out of whose power
I escaped signed and sealed.</p>
               <p>The Mallettes are a sort of
theeves who hazard them<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>selves
upon great perills
and inconveniences, for they
are made up in a bale, basket
or dry fat, faining that it is
certaine Marchandise sent
over, which they make some
<pb n="151" facs="tcp:27231:91"/>
one or other of their friends
in Marchants apparell carrie
from one house to another,
that when night commeth
and every one being fast a
sleepe, he cutteth the cloth
with a knife, hee breaketh
forth to empty the house. I
was one of those when the
fourth disgrace befell me,
because a friend of mine ha<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ving
counterfeited to have
foure bales to be laid by
night in a rich goldsmithes
house, counsel'd me to be
pack't up in one of them, co<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>vering
the sides thereof with
cloth and webs of fustian.
The goldsmith made no dif<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ficultie
to receive them, for<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>somuch
as he had not them
i<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap> keeping but a little while,
and that he thought, if the
owner in the meane time
<pb n="152" facs="tcp:27231:92"/>
should happen to die, some
one of them might fall to
his share, so he made them
to be laid in his backe-shop,
whereby I was well assured
to worke my feate. I wai<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ted
while night with such
desires as that plot deserved,
which notwithstanding fell
out to my disgrace; for three
or foure prentises meeting
that night in the house, of in<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>tention
to tarrie there upon
occasion of the bales, resol<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ving
to lay them together,
and lye upon them. After
supper, every one withdrew
himselfe. The prentises fit<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ting
the unhappy bed, or to
say rather, the bale, in which
I was in the middle of the
others, on which they began
to sleepe so soundly, that one
might have drawne them a
<pb n="153" facs="tcp:27231:92"/>
mile and never awakened
them. I being impatient of
the exceeding great weight
that I felt, not daring to
stirre my selfe more then I
had bin dead; and on the
other part the little breath
that I had, being choaked, I
began to stirre my selfe a
little, and seeing the unmo<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>veable
weight of that which
was on me; I certainly be<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>leeved
that they had layd a
bale upon me; with which
imagination, and the extreme
anguish that I suffred, I drew
a sharpe knife, and thrusting
it up, I made a great hole in
the tillet of the bale, and a
huge deepe wound in the
buttocks of him that lay
upon me. Hee rose like a
thunder raising his voyce to
the heavens, calling for
<pb n="154" facs="tcp:27231:93"/>
neighbours helpe and the
Iustices aide, thinking that
some one of his companions
would have kill'd him. The
confused noise of all the
neighbours, and the alarum
was so great, that ere the
Master of the house had ligh<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ted
a candle, the Iustice beat<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ing
open the doore came in,
and finde the poore woun<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ded
fellow in his shirt bleed
and faint, and the other vex<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ed
and confounded, takes
the deposition of him that
was wounded never taking
notice of the bale, nor com<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ming
neere it, thinking that it
was not needful to know the
place where hee was hurt.
But the goldsmith, who at<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>tentively
hearkened to the
Iustice, and beheld the cir<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>cumstances
of the fact, seeing
<pb n="155" facs="tcp:27231:93"/>
the poore-hurt fellow all
bloudie, supposed that the
bales and the cloth in them
might be bloudy and spoil'd
and he bound to pay them,
and with this unquietnesse
he came neere to looke on
the bale, and seeing it cut
thrust in his fingers to trie
if nothing was spoil'd, and
he mist not to finde my
bearde. I could very well
have bitten him if I had
thought it had bin the best of
my play, but I lay quiet,
thinking that he would
never guesse what it was. He
held the torch nigher to the
hole, and stooping to see that
he had touch't, the waxe be<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>gan
to melt and drop upon
my face, which forced me
to remove a little, and him to
marre all, crying aloud.
<pb n="156" facs="tcp:27231:94"/>
Theeves, Theeves. The
Iudge came neere, who was
yet making one write the
deposition of the hurt man,
and opening the bale, they
found one within it. They
carried me to prison, whence
I came out at the seventh
day after at a cartes taile well
accompanied, beside other
favours that they did me,
whereof the greatest was to
condemne me to the gallies.</p>
               <p>All the aforesaid Theeves
have ordinarily their spies
at Exchanges, Faires and
common Markets, viewing
all that goe and come, and
learning what money
they carrie, how much, and
in what sort, where they
leave it, and in what hands,
to give notice thereof to the
companie. And herein there
<pb n="157" facs="tcp:27231:94"/>
is such diligence, and so
great care, that there com<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>meth
not any stranger to the
towne, but in a quarter of an
houre after he is registred in
our booke with all his quali<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ties:
to wit, whence becom<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>meth
whither hee goeth,
and what is his trafficke: and
if there be any negligence
herein, the spies that have
these places of the Citie in
their charge, lose the profit
and gaine that should come
to them that day, out of the
common purse, beside a
shamefull reproofe which
our Captaine giveth
them in presence of
all the other
Theeves.</p>
            </div>
            <div n="9" type="chapter">
               <pb n="158" facs="tcp:27231:95"/>
               <head>CHAP. IX.</head>
               <head type="sub">Wherein the Theefe relateth
his wittie diligence to free
himselfe out of the Gal<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>lies
of Marseiles.</head>
               <p>
                  <seg rend="decorInit">Y</seg>Ou may thinke, I
had no great maw
to that journey<g ref="char:punc">▪</g>
which these Gen<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>tlemen
commanded me to<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>wards
<hi>Marseils,</hi> sith there
could be no pleasure in that
which is done upon con<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>straint.
Neverthelesse I o<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>beyed
with great resolution,
hoping that fortune would
offer some good occasion to
set me at libertie: so all my
<pb n="159" facs="tcp:27231:95"/>
studie and care was onely to
finde out the means to attaine
to this end. And having tried
many which came to no
effect, he practized one
which might have hapned
well, if fortune had bin con<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>tent
with my past troubles,
and had not made mee fall
any more in the try all there<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>of.
The invention then was
on this wise. The Captaine
of the Gallie, where I was
slave, being exceedingly in
love with a Lady of good
ranke, and she in no wise
loving him, hee tried all
meanes (though impossible)
to bring her to his bow, and
as is usuall with Lovers to
be the more inflamed when
they finde their beloved hard
to be won, the Ladies ex<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>treme
coldnesse was burning
<pb n="160" facs="tcp:27231:96"/>
coales to the Captaine, in
such sort that he never en<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>joyed
rest but when he was
talking of his love. I having
got knowledge by the report
of a slave that went daily to
my Masters house, there to
carrie water, wood, and o<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ther
necessaries, determined
to try my fortune, and not
lose the occasion. So I
spake him kindly, promising
him that if he would faith<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>fully
ayde me, that he might
hope assuredly for his liber<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ty,
whereof I would as well
make him certaine as of
mine own. The good <hi>Antony,</hi>
(for so the slave was called,)
put so much trust in my
words, hearing me speake of
libertie which I had promist
him, that waited but for the
houre to be employed in that
<pb n="161" facs="tcp:27231:96"/>
which I did intreate him, and
he thought there was not
time enough; hoping with
great impatie<g ref="char:cmbAbbrStroke">̄</g>ce, that I should
declare to him that which
he was to doe for me: who
seeing him so well minded
on my behalfe, and other<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>wise
sillie, faithfull and true,
I shewed him my resolution,
recommending to him secre<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>cie,
and wisedome above all
things. I said thus unto him,
My friend <hi>Antony,</hi> know
that it is long since I have
desired to impart a secret to
thee, which I will tell thee
of: but as all things require
wisedome, patience, and the
occasion, I have not done
till now; because I thought it
not fitting till now to do it:
as also, because not being so
satisfied (as I am this present)
<pb n="160" facs="tcp:27231:97"/>
of thy goodnesse, seeing, as
the Proverb saith, one should
eate a bushell of salt with
his friend ere he trust him.
Thou knowest well our Ma<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>sters
love with this Lady
that dwelleth by the great
Church, and how much he
is out of kelter for her, yet
never having received one
favour of her, after so long
time spent in her service, and
so many Duckets spent in
vaine for love of her. Now
if I should finde a meane and
assured invention, to make
him without the spending of
one shilling, or troubling her
doores enjoy his pleasure,
what reckoning would the
Captain make of this service,
and what reward would he
give him who should bestow
on him that which he so ear<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>nestly
<pb n="161" facs="tcp:27231:97"/>
desireth? Verily (an<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>swered
<hi>Antonie)</hi> I hold for
certaine that he would turne
foole at his contentment,
and not only would he give
thee thy libertie, but also to
all those for whom thou
shalt aske. Go to friend, said
I, if thou hast any particular
acquaintance with some one
of them who are most fami<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>liar
and best liked in the
Captaines house, thou must
acquaint him with this bu<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>sinesse,
that he may tell him,
and assure him that I will
doubtlesse doe that I pro<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>mise,
and I counsell thee that
it be not delayed. The con<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>tent
which <hi>Antony</hi> received
was so great, that without
bidding me farewell, nor an<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>swering
me one word, he
went from me like a light<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ning,
<pb n="164" facs="tcp:27231:98"/>
intreating a souldier o<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>
the Gallie, that he would
bring him into the Captaines
house, to talke with him of a
matter of great importance.
He was there, and could give
order for my businesse, that
halfe an houre after, the Go<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>vernour
of the house came
to the Master of the Gallie,
charging him to send me
with a souldier to the Cap<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>taine,
because he would see
me. The quicke effect which
<hi>Antonies</hi> diligence wrought,
gave me extreme great con<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>tentment,
and made me hope
that so good a beginning
would bring my designes to
a happie end. Finally, I was
at my Captaines house, tat<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>tard,
torne, and naked, and
with a great chaine tyed to
my foote. He comming to
<pb n="165" facs="tcp:27231:98"/>
meete me, as if I had bin a
man of great ranke, and lay<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>
                  <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>ng
his hand upon my shaven
head, began to talke kindly
to me, asking me what coun<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>try-man
I was, what was my
name, and why I was con<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>demned
to the Gallies. And
I having answered him in a
dissembling manner, and ly<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ing
the best I could, he drew
me aside, to a corner of the
Chamber, asking if that
which <hi>Antony</hi> had promist
him, was certaine, Sir, an<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>swered
I him, I know not
what he hath said, nor what
promise he hath made, yet I
will tell you, that if he hath
spoken according to that
which I told him, all is true,
without failing one tittle.
Sir, I told him, that if you
would promise to release
<pb n="164" facs="tcp:27231:99"/>
me out of this distresse which
I indure, and to give me my
libertie freely and wholly,
I should make you injoy the
love which you desire with
so great passion and which
so torments you, I promise
you moreover and as<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>sure
you, that making this
condition with you, if I per<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>forme
not my promise you
shall my head cut off, or
throw me into the sea. Thou
bindest thy selfe greatly
(said he with a smiling coun<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>tenance,
alreadie desirous to
see the effect of my promise)
but if thou art a man of so
great knowledge and skill,
that thou canst doe this for
me, this Gallie wherin thou
art shall be thy fortune, for
I shall not onely be content
to give thee thy libertie but
<pb n="165" facs="tcp:27231:99"/>
I will make thee one of my
houshold servants, and the
best respected of them all.
But tell me, after what man<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ner
canst thou doe it? Sir,
you shall know (said I) that
I was bred with a great <hi>A<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>strologer,</hi>
who under pretence
to cast <hi>Horoscops</hi> and Nativi<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ties
dissembled his Magicke
with so great craft, that there
was not any one in the world
that suspected him. He made
use of me in some of magi<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>call
experiences, supposing
because I was young and of
a dull wit I would under<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>stand
nothing of the secrets
of his Art. But he was decei<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ved
there, because though I
seemed foolish and ignorant,
yet I had an eye on all his
tryalls, and I studied them so
well, that many love secrets
<pb n="168" facs="tcp:27231:100"/>
stucke in my memorie, <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>
                  <g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>mongst
which I have one
most certaine and approved,
with which if a woman were
harder then the <hi>Adamant,</hi> I
will make her softer then the
waxe. In such sort that the
secret which I propound to
you is Magicall, not natu<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>rall,
and it is requisite to have
some haires of the party be<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>loved,
to put it in executi<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>on;
with which, and with
some Ceremonies that must
be performed, the Gentle<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>womans
heart will be so set
on fire, that she shall take
no rest, but when she is with
or thinketh of her beloved.
Notwithstanding this must
be done in the night, at the
waxing of the Moone, and in
the fields, there being but
only three in the companie,
<pb n="169" facs="tcp:27231:100"/>
and these stout and resolute,
that cannot be dismaied nor
frighted, fall out what may,
or whatsoever they see. If,
saith the Captaine, that to
further the businesse there
needeth no other thing but
a good heart, we shall easily
have our desire, for though
all Hell should stand before
me, it were notable to make
me give backe so much as
one step, nor once to change
my colour, or countenance:
and for the haires that thou
hast mentioned, I will give
thee as much as thou shalt
desire. I know Sir, (answe<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>red
I) by your face that your
naturall inclination is very
fit for Magicke, and if you
had studied it, you would
worke wonders by it. So
now seeing the time favou<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>reth
<pb n="168" facs="tcp:27231:101"/>
us, and that you have
the Ladies haire, let us not
suffer this waxing of the
Moone to passe with bring<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ing
our businesse to passe.
You may goe out on horse<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>backe,
and he also that shall
accompanie you, as for me,
though ill bestead with the
weight of this chaine, I will
not forbeare to goe a foote.
All shall be in readinesse (saith
the Captaine) against thurs<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>day
night, &amp; sith experience
hath made thee Master in this
Art, prepare thee well and
studie that which thou
oughtest to doe, to the end
that our designe may not
be lost by negligence or
little care; and for the pre<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>sent
get thee backe to the
Gallie; for I will send to
thee by the governour of
<pb n="169" facs="tcp:27231:101"/>
my house who shall be the
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>hird of our companie, a
faithfull man, couragious &amp;
valiant, and if there neede
any thing to this purpose,
thou maist in the meane time
provide thee, for I will take
order that all be paid that
thou shalt buy. With this
good answer I parted from
my Master more joyfull and
merrie then the flourishing
Spring seeing my businesse
thrive so well at so good a
passe, and being returned to
the Gallie I found my good
<hi>Antony,</hi> who waited for me
with great impatience to
know what I had bargain'd
with the Captaine, and upon
what termes my affaires
stood, to whom I related all
that we had agreed upon, and
the kindnesse that he received
<pb n="170" facs="tcp:27231:102"/>
me withall in accepting my
promise, assuring him that
when I was in favour, the
next thing I asked should be
his libertie. Hardly had I
begun my discourse, but I
perceiued the Governour of
the Captaines house entring
the Gallie, his visage infla<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>med,
his eyes staring and
dansing, and he running, as
he had quickesilver in his
heeles, asked where I was,
and having perceived me, and
drawne me aside, he said to
me, I am Governour of the
house to the Captaine of
this Gallie, who hath com<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>manded
me to come hither,
and to know of thee all that
shall be necessarie for the
businesse that you talked of,
dispose and appoint at thy
pleasure, for I have money
<pb n="175" facs="tcp:27231:102"/>
for all, and because that I
may offer thee something in
my own behalfe, take this
crown of gold which I give
thee as a token of that friend<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ship
which shall be between
us, and I assure thee that thou
shalt have a good friend of
me at the Captains hands.
But as reason would thou
must answer me with mutu<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>all
acknowledgment, in do<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ing
some thing for me. You
shall binde me much Sir, (I
answered him then very
humbly,) having disparaged
your selfe so much in regard
of him, who is so farre une<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>quall:
consider in what my
weakenesse and my povertie
can serve you; for I will per<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>forme
it with all my soule. I
will not, saith the Governor,
that thou hazard thy soule,
<pb n="176" facs="tcp:27231:103"/>
because it is Gods, but I
would faine intreat thee, that
with thy fecrets and thy
skill thou wouldst helpe me
to purchase the favour of a
Gentlewoman of good ranke
whom I have loved now
these five yeares, and
because I am of somewhat
a meaner condition then she
there is no meane to make
her heare me, and if it were
possible to give two blowes
with one stone it would be
be an extreme great content<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ment
to me, &amp; thou shouldst
binde me to thee, not only
as a friend, but as a slave.
Now the Moone is waxing,
and the time very fit, so that
I thinke there is no neede to
make any more ceremonies
for my mistresse than for the
Captaines, and if you must
<pb n="177" facs="tcp:27231:103"/>
have of her haire, see here
are some, for it is above a
yeare that I carried them a<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>bout
me, keeping them as
reliques. And drawing a
paper out of his pocket put
one of her locks into my
hand. I who desired no o<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ther
thing but that the third
of our companie should be
also so besotted, that the bu<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>sinesse
might fall out well, I
was in a manner beside my
selfe with contentment,
which I could not hide nor
dissemble without shewing
some signes in my counte<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>nance
of being troubled, by
which he tooke occasion to
aske me what it was that
troubled me. To whom I
answer'd, Sir, I feare that if
the Captaine should know
that I doe any thing for you
<pb n="178" facs="tcp:27231:104"/>
he would be vexed with me,
and I should lose this good
opportunitie in which lyeth
no lesse then my libertie; this
consideration is that which
troubleth me, not want of
desire to serve you. And
who will tell it him, saith he
then? The Divell, answered
I, that never sleepes, but hap<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>pen
what may, I am resolved
to serve you, though I should
lose the Captaines good<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>will,
seeing it is the first thing
that you have commanded
me. As for that which con<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>cernes
the Captains busines
&amp; yours, you must buy a new
sacke, a small corde, and an<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>other
bigge one of Hempe,
foure ells long, a new knife,
a chaine and a brush, and
these you shall buy without
making any price, that is to
<pb n="179" facs="tcp:27231:104"/>
say, that you shall give for
them whatsoever the Mar<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>chant
shall aske without bea<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ting
of the price: and assure
your selfe, that within a
seven-night, you shall enjoy
your love with great liberty.
Thou givest me greater con<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>tent
with this answer, saith
the Governour of the house,
than if the King had given
me a pension of a thousand
crownes a yeare, doe that
which thou promisest, &amp; thou
shall see what I will doe for
thee. And embracing me
kindly he went away full of
hope and joy, leaving me
the most contented man of
the world, seeing that if in
this prison I had sought an
occason which might have
fallen out better for my ease,
it had bin impossible for me
<pb n="180" facs="tcp:27231:105"/>
to finde it, for as well my
Captaine as the Governour
of the house were so blinded
besotted and fool'd, that if
I should have call'd the day
night they would have be<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>leeved
it. On the contrarie
my heart throb'd a thousand
waies, considering into what
a maze I should thrust my
selfe, if the businesse succee<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ded
not, neverthelesse I made
a vertue of necessitie, using
that remedie which is ordi<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>narie
with these that are in
any extremity, which is bold<g ref="char:EOLunhyphen"/>nesse
and resolution. With
this good courage I waited
for the Thursday, which
came more joyfull and fairer
then the Spring, though it
was slow, because of the de<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>sire
they had to injoy their
Mistresses, and mine to get
<pb n="181" facs="tcp:27231:105"/>
out of the harbour by the
cheating trickes that I put
upon them, it seem'd to us
the longest day of all the
yeare. Every time the clocke
struck, they despaired, fearing
to misse the telling of the
houres, as these do who hope
for a thing that they earnest<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ly
desire; and after this care
they were in anextacie consi<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>dering
what they would do in
the possession of their loves,
as if they had alreadie verily
past the night and overcome
the difficulty. This doubting
and hammering of theirs
served me well to my pur<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>pose,
that they might not
perceive the gulleries that I
put upon them, and the
smoake that I sold them.
Whereby I finde that those
who paint Love blinde, have
<pb n="182" facs="tcp:27231:106"/>
great good reason for them,
because that, if they not bin
so, they would have percei<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ved
all my promises to be
nothing but winde, and that
the meanes which I pro<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>pounded
to them were
for no other end
but to gull.
them.</p>
            </div>
            <div n="10" type="chapter">
               <pb n="183" facs="tcp:27231:106"/>
               <head>CHAP. X.</head>
               <head type="sub">In which he proceedeth to re<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>late
his invention, begun with
some discourses of Love, be<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>tween
the Governour of the
house and this Gallie<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>slave.</head>
               <p>
                  <seg rend="decorInit">T</seg>He night being come
which be a day for
me, inlightning the
heaven with infi<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>nite
numbers of starres so
bright and resplendent, that
they dazeled the light of the
day, and filled my soule with
joy: when my honest Go<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>vernour
<pb n="184" facs="tcp:27231:107"/>
enters the Gallie,
brave, Gallant and clothed
with the best apparell that
he had, because that amongst
other directions that I had
given as well to him as to his
Master, the chiefe was that
they should be fine &amp; brave,
as being a thing most requi<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>site
and necessarie for Magick
skill; and having saluted me
with close embracements he
said to me, friend, that thou
maist know that I can doe
what I will at the Captaines
hands, and that I want not
goodwill to help thee, thou
shalt know that through my
intreatie he gives thee leave
to leave off thy chaine for
this night, and it may be, for
ever, that thou maist walke
with greater libertie, and
performe thy businesse and
<pb n="185" facs="tcp:27231:107"/>
what is <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 span">
                     <desc>〈…〉</desc>
                  </gap>
though the Captaine <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap>
                  <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>ome difficultie, I dea<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>t so
earnestly that I obtained this
favour in earnest of that
which I desire to do <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 span">
                     <desc>〈…〉</desc>
                  </gap>.
I who then was more knavish
and more dissembled then
foolish, fell into some suspi<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>tion
imagining that this libe<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ralitie
offered ere it was desi<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>red,
was fained, and but only
to try me, wherfore I answe<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>red
him, Sir I thanke you for
the care you have had of me
obtaining of my Master that
he will take off my chaine, a
favour which I would kind<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ly
accept, if it were possible,
but it is not, because I must
not change the estate that I
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap> in, nor one point of that
which is of my estate; it be<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ing
necessarie that he, who
<pb n="186" facs="tcp:27231:108"/>
shall make this tryall, must
make in the same estate &amp; ap<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>parell
that he is accustomed
to weare: and so I may not
goe but in mine owne clothes
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap> with the chaine because o<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>therwise
we shall do nothing.
The Governour was not a
little contented with my an<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>swer,
being assured that there
was in me no kinde of de<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ceite
nor malice, but the pure
and simple truth, &amp; pittying
me beleeved assuredly, that
there was more passion in my
words then Iustice, he em<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>braced
me the second time
saying, friend, God who is
wont to give the salve ac<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>cording
to the wound, hath
brought thee to this Gallie,
that by it thou mightst come
to the knowledge of my
Master, and enjoy the speciall
<pb n="187" facs="tcp:27231:108"/>
favours which thou shouldst
promise to thy selfe from his
liberalitie, if the businesse fall
out well. How well? answe<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>red
I him, hath the Captaine
any suspition that I would
deceive him? No by the
world answer'd the Gover<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>nour,
seeing that though
thou wouldst doe it,
thou couldst not: but it is
the great desire that we both
have to soften the hardnesse
of these she-Tygers, and to
turne them to our love, that
makes us thinke that impos<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>sible
which is easie for thee
to doe, and this is usuall a<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>mongst
Lovers. I never was
one, (answer'd I, and though
I should be more in love then
was <hi>
                     <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                        <desc>•</desc>
                     </gap>arcissus,</hi> I should never
purswade my selfe that day
were night, that <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 span">
                     <desc>〈…〉</desc>
                  </gap>,
<pb n="188" facs="tcp:27231:109"/>
and other fantasticall imagi<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>nations,
that haunt Lovers,
which rather may be called
follies and idle thoughts
then love passions. It well
appeareth that his darts have
not strucke thee, saith the
Governour, for if thou hadst
tried them, thou wouldst not
have spoken with so great
freedome and so little trou<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ble.
Know friend, that Phy<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>sitians
ranke this disease a<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>mongst
Melancholi<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>e passi<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ons,
into which the diseased
falleth, beleeving that which
is not, and framing a thou<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>sand
phantasies and visions
which have no other ground
but their perverse and cor<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>rupt
imagination, which
workes the same effect in
Lovers, giving them an im<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>pression
of jealouse, to an o<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ther
<pb n="189" facs="tcp:27231:109"/>
of disdaine, to an other
of favour, making a moun<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>taine
of nothing, all which
is bred of a burning desire
which they have to possesse
that which they love. But to
be willing to perswade this
unto him who hath not tried
it, is to desire to draw water
with a sive, and to weight the
earth, I am no Doctor, Ma<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ster
Governour, I answer'd
him, nor yet Batcehler, be<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>cause
being left yong, friend<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>lesse
and poore, I lived also
without knowledge, having
only foure words of Latin.
Neverthelesse by the use of
reason well knowen of all
sciences, I understood the
smal reason that Lovers have
to be so oft troubled upon
so small occasion as they are
troubled, because of necessi<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>tie
<pb n="190" facs="tcp:27231:110"/>
their affections tend to
two points, to wit, that the
woman must be good or evil
faithfull or disloyall. If she
be good, faithfull &amp; answer<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>able
to your affection in mu<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>tuall
love, it is a great follie
to be jealous over her: if
she be unfaithfull and known
for such a one, there needs no
other counsel, but not to trust
her nor love her. Whence
may be co<g ref="char:cmbAbbrStroke">̄</g>cluded that all the
accidents to which you say
lovers are subject, are the
overflowings of follie, and
wants of wit, it being a no<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>table
extravagancie to love
one that hateth, this being
supposed that hatred cannot
be the subject of love, nor
love of hatred, seeing we or<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>dinarily
love them that bind
us thereto by their love. If it
<pb n="191" facs="tcp:27231:110"/>
went by experience, saith the
Governor thou wilt lose thy
cause, because usually they
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>ate these that love them
best, taking the fight of a dy<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ing
man for the occasion of
their hate, and it is a voice in
them now a dayes turned in<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>
                  <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>o
a nature, to shun those that
follow them, and to abhorre
those who adore them, as
the Captaine and I have
hitherto made a long and
unhappy tryall. Thinke not
so Master Governour, I an<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>swer'd,
that you have made
a good conclusion; for if
you will have the patience to
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>eare me, I will make you
see clearely in what your ar<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>guments
faile, and know that
love ceaseth not to love nor
hatred to hate, there being no
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap> of nature, and he that
<pb n="192" facs="tcp:27231:111"/>
foster'd you in this philoso<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>phy,
hath fed you with <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap>
milke, because that Lo<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="2 letters">
                     <desc>••</desc>
                  </gap>
alone not being accompanie<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>
with other circumstances,
which are to be proportio<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>
                  <g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>nable
and reasonable is no<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>
all the motive of an other
love. That Princesse of no<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ble
bloud should be tyed to
love a Porter, that dieth for
her, onely because he ado<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>reth
her. I deny your pro<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>position,
she is no wise bound
to doe it, nor her well to af<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>fect
him, the object that
might move her not being in
him. As a Prince hateth to
the death a poore damsell,
because she depiseth him,
being unwilling to give con<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>sent
to his wanton love,
whence it may be gathered
that neither the Porters love
<pb n="193" facs="tcp:27231:111"/>
                  <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap> in any case tye the Prin<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>
                  <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="2 letters">
                     <desc>••</desc>
                  </gap>sse
wil, nor Damsels scorne
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>all breed hatred in the
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>rinces minde. Seeing that
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap> love is found the good,
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap> profit and pleasure which
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap> the hookes with which
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap> will is taken, then it is
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap> motive of love, and the
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>ady shal not be able to hate
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>im, who loveth her upon
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>hese conditions, but therein
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>eing unequalitie and disho<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>
                  <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>our,
she may do it. You shall
more clearely perceive this
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap> hatred, because when a
man dieth for a Gentle-wo<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>man,
&amp; she hates him excee<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>dingly,
this hate is not that
which inflames his love, but
the account she makes of her
honour &amp; the feare of shame
if she should consent to the
pleasure of him that loveth
<pb n="194" facs="tcp:27231:112"/>
her, which consideration
makes her coole and back<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ward
and him extreamely
passionate. Whence it is con<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>cluded,
that the woman offen<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>deth
not in hating him that
worships her, nor any man
ought to hate such a woman
that disdaineth him. This thy
Philosophie, my friend, an<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>swered
the Governour, is fra<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>med
of moe words than lear<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ning,
and I could refute it by
plaine reasons, if time did af<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ford
'tis leasure, but the houre
is already come, &amp; the Cap<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>taine
will looke for us, only I
would intreate thee to be
mindfull of me as a friend,
making thy inchantment of
equall power with the cruel<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>tie
of the Gentlewoman of
whom I have spoken to thee.
Away with this care, Sir, an<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>swerd
<pb n="195" facs="tcp:27231:112"/>
I, for I will doe it in
such sort, that though your
Mistresse were harder-hear<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>
                  <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>ed
&amp; more frozen then the
Alpes, she should be turned
into a Mountaine of fire, hot<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ter
then Mount <hi>Aetna</hi> of <hi>Si<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>cile.</hi>
I beleeve so, said the Go<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>vernour,
but I cannot chuse
but wonder why thou being
so cunning a fellow didst not
enchant the Iudge to be in
love with thee and not have
condemned thee to the Gal<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>lies.
If this secret were good
for a man, said I, a hundred
yeares a goe I had bin a Duke
or a Governour of some Pro<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>vince,
if I had not bin a Mo<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>narch.
It is not good but for
women, because he that first
found it out, gave it this ver<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>tue
only. That alone sufficeth
me, saith the Governour, if
<pb n="196" facs="tcp:27231:113"/>
with it I can soften that ad<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="2 letters">
                     <desc>••</desc>
                  </gap>
                  <g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>mant,
but with the hope that
thou hast given me, I hold the
victorie as certaine, and I
hinder my selfe that I doe
not see to morrow already.
With these words we came
to the other side of the har<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>bour
where my kinde Cap<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>tain
waited for us with great
impatience and unquietnesse,
by whom I was very well re<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ceived,
&amp; he asking me why
the Governour had not taken
off my chaine, as he had char<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ged
him, I answered him the
same things, which I had be<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>fore
answered the Gover<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>nour,
wherewith he was ex<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ceeding
wel contented. They
leapt both on horse backe, &amp;
I followed them at leasure,
because of the waight of my
chaine, and being about a
<pb n="197" facs="tcp:27231:113"/>
                  <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="2 letters">
                     <desc>••</desc>
                  </gap>ague from <hi>Marselles</hi> we
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="2 letters">
                     <desc>••</desc>
                  </gap>rived at the place appoin<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ted.
They lighted down, and
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>ying their horses at a tree,
we with drew our selves to
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="2 letters">
                     <desc>••</desc>
                  </gap>ther to the place where our
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="2 letters">
                     <desc>••</desc>
                  </gap>yall was to be made, &amp; ta<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>king
them with some necessa<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ry
ceremonies, and telling
them what they should say, I
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="2 letters">
                     <desc>••</desc>
                  </gap>ade a Circle on the ground
whispering I cannot tell
what strange and uncouth
words, and turning my selfe
often, sometimes towards the
East, sometimes to the West,
with some ceremonies so un<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>usuall,
that they made the
Captaine and his Governor
of the house both of them
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap> and fearefull. At
haffe an houres end after that
I had gone turning about like
a foole, I made the Captaine
<pb n="198" facs="tcp:27231:114"/>
goe within it, charging him
to say after me, who was so
obedient and so forward to
all that I would have him,
that if I had then cut off his
mustaches, he would have
beleeved that it was needfull
for the inchantment. I made
him strip himselfe, teaching
him to say certaine words to
every parcell of his clothes
which he put off, which he
pronounced so exactly that
he lost not one syllable, be<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>leeving
that if he had missed
in one jote he should have
marred all this businesse,
With this ceremonie I stript
him to his shirt, he never ma<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>king
any shew of feare no<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>
suspition, being assured that
he was safe enough by the
presence of the Governour,
who was much astonisht to
<pb n="199" facs="tcp:27231:114"/>
                  <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap> them finish'd, it seeming to
him that there should neither
b<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap> time enough nor inchant<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>
                  <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>ent
sufficient for himselfe.
Pitty so moved my heart that
I could not take off his shirt,
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>aving compassion of his in<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>
                  <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="2 letters">
                     <desc>••</desc>
                  </gap>cencie,
because it was then
the coldest time of all the
winter, and either through
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>eare or cold, such a vehe<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>
                  <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="3 letters">
                     <desc>•••</desc>
                  </gap>
quivering and shaking
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>f all his joynts tooke him,
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>ith such a chattering of his
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap>, that the noise thereof
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap> Have bin heard halfe a
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap> from the place. I <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap>
and encouraged him,
with the shortnesse and quick
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap> of the inchantment,
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 span">
                     <desc>〈…〉</desc>
                  </gap> assured possession of
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap> love, injoyning him in
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap> meane time to be silent,
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap> telling him that if he
<pb n="200" facs="tcp:27231:115"/>
spake but one word, we
should be presently in lesse
then the twinkling of an eye
all of us in <hi>Barbary.</hi> He then
being in this plight, that is to
to say, naked in his shirt, I
gave him a knife in his hand,
commanding him to make
some stabs towards the foure
quarters of the world, at eve<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ry
one uttering some words,
&amp; <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap> the conclusion I made
him goe into the sacke. That
which I then saw with mine
eyes was a wonder &amp; a mira<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>cle
of God, because I alwai<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="2 letters">
                     <desc>••</desc>
                  </gap>
imagined, that as he was go<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ing
into the sacke he should
suspect something, &amp; that <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap>
mine invention should <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 span">
                     <desc>〈…〉</desc>
                  </gap>
nothing: but a little <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 span">
                     <desc>〈…〉</desc>
                  </gap>
not more obedient <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 span">
                     <desc>〈…〉</desc>
                  </gap>
                  <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="2 letters">
                     <desc>••</desc>
                  </gap>ilde than he was, <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap>
that without any resistan<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="2 letters">
                     <desc>••</desc>
                  </gap>
                  <pb n="201" facs="tcp:27231:115"/>
or shew of mistrust, he went
in, being still assured by the
presence of his Governour,
and the ignorance he had of
his loves; Which was good
for me; for if he had known
that the Governour was to
be incha<g ref="char:cmbAbbrStroke">̄</g>ted also, he had never
gone into the sacke. Finally
having packed up the poore
Captain, I laid him along up<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>on
the ground with his belly
upwards, tying the sacks
mouth with a cord that was
by me, &amp; speaking sti<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="2 letters">
                     <desc>••</desc>
                  </gap> to the
Governor to encourage him,
and wishing him to have pa<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>tience
a quarter of an houre
the enchantment was to last.
So having left him in this ta<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>
                  <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>ing,
the Governour and I
went aside about a stones cas<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>
who said to me in an excee<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ding
great pelting chafe, I wil
<pb n="202" facs="tcp:27231:116"/>
lay a wager that thou hast
forgotten something of my
businesse, for here I see nei<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ther
sacke nor knife for me,
as for the Captaine. Here is
no need of a sacke, said I, be<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>cause
your Magicall experi<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ences
are made stronger or
weaker, according to the
greater or lesser cruelty that
Gentle women have: and the
Captaines being exceeding
disdainfull, I have made the
enchantment of a sacke for
her which is the strongest of
all. Oh! brother, saith the
Governor, what is this that
thou hast done? mine is hard-hearted,
disdainfull a Tyger
and a Lyonesse: for the Cap<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>taines,
though she loves him
not, notwithstanding shewes
him some favour, and if it
goes by disdaine, we neede a
<pb n="203" facs="tcp:27231:116"/>
hundred sackes, not one only
what shall we doe? Be quiet
Master Governor, said I then
seeing him afflicted, for there
is a remedy for all but deaths
for that which is not in one
threed shall be in a hundred.
I will make with the haires
and the cords a hanke which
shall have no lesse force then
the Captaines sacke, and for
as much as your Mistresse is
so cruel as you say, I wil adde
thereto a small matter which
shall make her, that she shall
never be able to take rest
while she see you. It is that
which I looke for, myfriend,
answerd hee, let us martyr
her in such sort, that my love
may torment her thoughts &amp;
her memory, &amp; performe my
businesse quickly, before my
Masters be ended. Speaking
<pb n="204" facs="tcp:27231:117"/>
thus we came to the roo<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>e of
a tree, the place at which I
had told him that his incha<g ref="char:cmbAbbrStroke">̄</g>t<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ment
should be made, and in
an instant making a circle, &amp;
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>eaching him what he should
doe, I made him goe into it
starke naked to the skin, be<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>cause
I had neede of a shirt.
Having him there in this fa<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>shion,
I tooke his Mistresse
haires, &amp; twisting them with a
cord I made a big roule, with
which I tyed his hands to the
stumpe of a tree, shewing him
the mysterie that was hid in
every ceremonie, &amp; I would
faine also have tied his feete,
if I had not feared that hee
should have suspected this to
be rather the fact of a Rob<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ber
then of a Magitian, but as
his hands were enough for
my purpose I would do no
<pb n="205" facs="tcp:27231:117"/>
more. Finally having made
the<g ref="char:cmbAbbrStroke">̄</g> 
                  <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 span">
                     <desc>〈…〉</desc>
                  </gap> bou<g ref="char:cmbAbbrStroke">̄</g>d, de<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>fended
fro<g ref="char:cmbAbbrStroke">̄</g> the sharpnes of the
cold aire with the onely fire
of Love, that burned in their
heart, there was no body that
could hinder me to give two
or three knocks at the lock of
my chaine with a hammer
that I carried in my pocket
and taking their horses and
clothes I got me out of sight
&amp;, being armed like <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap>
S. <hi>George</hi> I tooke <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 span">
                     <desc>〈…〉</desc>
                  </gap>
high way to
<hi>Lions.</hi>
               </p>
            </div>
            <div n="11" type="chapter">
               <pb n="206" facs="tcp:27231:118"/>
               <head>CHAP. XI.</head>
               <head type="sub">In which the Theefe <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap>
the disgrace that happen<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>d
to him, about a <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap>
of Pearle.</head>
               <p>
                  <seg rend="decorInit">W</seg>Ith the victorie of
this da<g ref="char:cmbAbbrStroke">̄</g>gerous jour<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ney,
I tooke the
high way towards
the town of <hi>Lyons,</hi> joyfull to
see my self free, &amp; the owner
of foure and twentie double
pistolls, which I found by the
hazard in my Masters pockets
with which and with their
clothes being brave &amp; gallant
I went into the towne, &amp; fal<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ling
in love with as many
<pb n="207" facs="tcp:27231:118"/>
brave Dames as were there: I
talked of love to all that I met
with, and receiving particular
favours of some, because my
presence and my clothes as<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>sured
them that I was a man
of some great house and of
good ranke. True it is that to
keep them in this errour, and
to hold my selfe in the good
account with which I had be
gun, I oftentimes visited the
Merchants of greatest credit,
telling them, that I lookt for
some Merchandise from <hi>Ve<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>nice,</hi>
and promising to deale
with, I made them in love
with me, and they trusted my
words as much as my outside
and my honest looks did de<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>serue.
By which &amp; by coun<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>terfeit
noblenesse, some
Gentle women tooke occasio<g ref="char:cmbAbbrStroke">̄</g>
to be as far in love with me,
<pb n="208" facs="tcp:27231:119"/>
as <hi>Thysbe</hi> was with <hi>Piramus,</hi>
to whom I gave correspon<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>dence
in the best manner,
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>hough I understood that I
was not so blinded with love
but this colour'd goodwil, &amp;
these fained sighs tended ra<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ther
for my monies then for
any good quality or beauty, of
mine. But as there is nothing
that can resist the kinde al<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>lureme<g ref="char:cmbAbbrStroke">̄</g>ts
by which a woman
maketh warre against him,
whom she minded to deceive
I suffered my selfe a little to
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>e carried away by amorous
shewes of a Gentle woman of
the towne, merry, pleasant &amp;c
who entertained me best
though she was none of the
fairest: who making shew
that she was taken with my
love, in a short time emptied
my poore purse, leaving me
<pb n="209" facs="tcp:27231:119"/>
like an Image wrapt up in vel<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>vet.
I pressed also to binde her
by allmeanes possible answe<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>rable
to her fained affection,
not so much for my content<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ment,
as for that she was pro<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>vided
with fine knackes,
which she had bin accusto<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>med
to aske of any new lover
such as are chaines, rings
bracelets, &amp; above all a chain
of Pearle, so bigge, round &amp;
bright, that at the very sight
of them any man of courage
would desire them: This
friendship at first was very
hot, &amp; had a prosperous gale
of winde, but as soone as she
perceived the weakenesse of
my purse, she struck the sailes
of her good-will, &amp; began to
looke upon me with a crosse
&amp; sowre countenance, an ac<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>cident
which in some sort put
<pb n="210" facs="tcp:27231:120"/>
me in doubt, &amp; made me dis<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>trust
that I should never work
my seate, which I had pro<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>jected
at the beginning of her
loves. So before that any fal<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ling
out or vexing should rise
between us, relying upon the
kinde offers which a little be<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>fore
she had made me, making
me understand, that not only
her goods, but also her very
life shuld be sacrificed to my
friendship; I requested her to
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>awn her chain or her Pearls
for to contribute with her
for the expences of the kit<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>chin,
assuring her that I loo<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ked
for two thousand Ducats
from a living which I had in
my country. But as they are
old and subtle in their trade
so they are also in their dis<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>trust,
and so she excused her
selfe, saying that the Pearles
<pb n="211" facs="tcp:27231:120"/>
and the chain were pawns of
a friend of hers who was to
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>ome and redeeme them the
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap> day, and that her honor
should be greatly endangered
if she had them not in readi<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>nesse.
There needed no small
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap> to cover the annoy which
that crafty answere bred me,
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>or little wit to turne into
jest such a plaine denyall.
So without making any
shew, or answering one word
to that purpose, I fell a
laughing most heartily over
her shoulders, saying to her,
that it was a device that I
had framed to try her good
will and to see if she would
indeede confirme that which
she had promist by her
words, and drawing out of
my pocket a counterfeit
letter of Exchange, I made
<pb n="212" facs="tcp:27231:121"/>
her reade it that she migh<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>
see the power that was gi<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ven
me to take up eight
hundred Ducats from a rich
Marchant of <hi>Lyons,</hi> who<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>
she knew well, where with
comming to her selfe from
her rugged coynesse, shee
fell againe into her smiling
humour, giving me a few
light blowes on my cheeke,
calling me distrustfull and
mocker. I went away from
her with a thousand em<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>bracings,
making her be<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>leeve,
that I was going to
receive a part of that sum,
and God knowes what my
heart was. But as povertie
hath ever bin the mother of
inventions, amongst many
others which my imaginatio<g ref="char:cmbAbbrStroke">̄</g>
afforded me, I choosed out
one which was to sell my
<pb n="213" facs="tcp:27231:121"/>
                  <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap> at any rate whatsoe<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>
                  <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>er,
being content only to
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="2 letters">
                     <desc>••</desc>
                  </gap>ve monie to live upon
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>ut three dayes, at the end
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>f which I minded to have
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap> fling at her Pearles, and so
to get mee out of the way<g ref="char:punc">▪</g>
But it happened quite con<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>trarie
to me; I went to catch
the wooll but I came backe
fleec't which was the just
judgement of God, and a
righteous punishment of my
fault. For though the Pro<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>verbe
saith, <hi>He that steales
from a Theefe winneth a hun<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>dred
yeares of pardon:</hi> yet the
theft that is done to wo<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>men
of this kinde, is not
put upon this account. But
it should be rather held for
a great offence, because that
for the monies they re<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ceive
they sell their honor
<pb n="214" facs="tcp:27231:122"/>
and reputation which ca<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>
not be redeem'd withall th<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>
treasures of the world. <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap>
came to passe then, that <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap>
returning in the evenin<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>
to her house, and makin<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>
my pockets jingle with th<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>
money that I had receive<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>
for my horse, she met m<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>
with embracings, so smiling
and kinde, that with her fau<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ning
and flatteries, shee made
me almost beleeve, that th<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>
refusall she had made me of
her Pearles, had beene but
a tryall and proofe, which
she would make of my af<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>fection.
Finally order was
given for making supper
ready, with which and the
tricks that I minded to put
upon her, at the comming
of my money, I resolved to
change her in such sort, that
<pb n="215" facs="tcp:27231:122"/>
her first sleepe<g ref="char:punc">▪</g> I should
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="2 letters">
                     <desc>••</desc>
                  </gap>e the commoditie to as<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>
                  <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="2 letters">
                     <desc>••</desc>
                  </gap>lt
her, and shee never to
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>rceive it. But my desires
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap> not so good successe as
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>hought, because that such
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>omen know more then
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap> Devill, particularly she,
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>ho as an old beaten bel<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>
                  <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="2 letters">
                     <desc>••</desc>
                  </gap>me
in her trade, there
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>as no ambush nor deceit,
which shee had not pried
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>nto. So the more I urged
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>er to drinke, so much the
more shee proved coy and
backeward. Supper ended
with all the joy that I could
faine, and the hope which
that good occasion promist
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap>, we withdrawing our
selves into her chamber, she
began to untire her selfe with
as much slownesse as it had
beene her wedding night.
<pb n="216" facs="tcp:27231:123"/>
But I desirous to arrive <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap>
the haven of my intent<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="2 letters">
                     <desc>••</desc>
                  </gap>on,
to make her more car<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>
                  <g ref="char:EOLunhyphen"/>lesse
and lesse suspitious <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap>
went to bed first, fain<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="2 letters">
                     <desc>••</desc>
                  </gap>
my selfe unable any mo<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="2 letters">
                     <desc>••</desc>
                  </gap>
to withstand sleepe tha<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>
urged me so eagerly. My
disgrace was such, that shee
distrusting the summe, that
I had bragged to have recei<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ved,
and taking occasion
by my dogges sleepe shee
would search my pockets to
trie if all was gold that gli<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ster'd,
and if the nuts were
answerable to the noise.
But finding there was so
little monie that it would
scarcely furnish out the next
dayes expence, she began to
be vexed and to have an ill
opinion of me. At all this
(though snorting) I was
<pb n="217" facs="tcp:27231:123"/>
                  <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>ore watchfull and more a
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>nting then a Cat when
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap> watches a Mouse, spying
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap> what place she laid her
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>earles, that I might fish
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="2 letters">
                     <desc>••</desc>
                  </gap>em incontinent when
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>ee was fallen asleepe. She
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>ay downe sad and con<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>
                  <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>ounded,
thinking on the
small summe of mony, that
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>hee had found, and oft<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>times
sighing. Whereof I
would in no wise aske the
cause, as knowing it well
enough, and not desirous
to let her from sleeping
which I so much desired
and long'd for. So a quar<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ter
of an houre after, which
was the time that in my
conceit, shee was past all
thinking of it any further,
I thought of mine owne
designes, weighing well all
<pb n="218" facs="tcp:27231:124"/>
the inconveniencies whic<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>
might fall out, among<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="2 letters">
                     <desc>••</desc>
                  </gap>
which I considered the sus<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>pition,
conceived by her
to be most difficult, it see<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ming
to me that she would
not sleepe but by halfes,
and that seeing the least ap<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>pearance
of that shee ima<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>gined,
shee would raise the
house with her cryes, and
put all the neighbours in
armes. But amongst many
inventions, there came a
subtle one in my minde,
and most fit for the purpose
to this fact, which was, not
to hide the Pearles in any
part of my clothes, but to
swallow them one and one,
being assured that having
past them through my body
they would come forth
more cleere and bright then
<pb n="219" facs="tcp:27231:124"/>
                  <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap> before, and that in this
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>anner though all came to
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap> worst, the Iustice would
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap> mee free not finding
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap> Pearles about mee.
This thought, in my opi<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>
                  <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>ion
seemed admirable
good, and thinking that she
was asleepe, seeing shee
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="2 letters">
                     <desc>••</desc>
                  </gap>ghed no more, nor shewed
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>ny more her unquietnesse.
I rose as softly, as was pos<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>sible,
going barefooted and
at leasure to the place, where
she had left her Pearles, and
having found them, I began
to swallow them one after
another, though with some
difficultie, I being narrow
throated, and they very big.
My ill lucke was that while
I was, about to swallow the
last, it stucke in my wea<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>zand
so unhappily, that it
<pb n="220" facs="tcp:27231:125"/>
could neither goe forewar<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>
nor backeward, I was for<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ced
to cough with som<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>
violence, and to awake h<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="2 letters">
                     <desc>••</desc>
                  </gap>
with my coughing, shee cal<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="2 letters">
                     <desc>••</desc>
                  </gap>
upon me with teares and <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="2 letters">
                     <desc>••</desc>
                  </gap>stonisht,
and I dissemblin<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>
the best I could the hinde<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>rance
of my weazand, an<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>swered
her that I was seeking
for the Chamber-pot wit<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>
which shee was well apai<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>
for a while, though not sa<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>tisfied
with my answer, it
seeming a thing unlikely to
looke on the cupboord for
the Chamber-pot, which
was usually set under the
bed, wherefore casting with
her selfe the meanes to satis<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>fie
her suspition, without
making any shew of distrust,
shee counterfeited an excee<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ding
fore paine in her bellie
<pb n="221" facs="tcp:27231:125"/>
                  <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="2 letters">
                     <desc>••</desc>
                  </gap>ring great cries, and cal<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>
                  <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="2 letters">
                     <desc>••</desc>
                  </gap>g
to her two maides that
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>re in the house for light,
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="2 letters">
                     <desc>••</desc>
                  </gap>d some warme clothes:
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="2 letters">
                     <desc>••</desc>
                  </gap>ee held in her dissembled
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="2 letters">
                     <desc>••</desc>
                  </gap>ine for the space of halfe
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap> houre, supposing that
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>ould be enough to take
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="2 letters">
                     <desc>••</desc>
                  </gap>om me the suspition of her
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>unning slights. About the
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="2 letters">
                     <desc>••</desc>
                  </gap>d of which, shee riseth
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap> bed like lightning, and
looking round about the
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="2 letters">
                     <desc>••</desc>
                  </gap>me with a lighted candle
and where shee had left her
Pearles, and no finding
them, without speaking ever
a word, or asking any other
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>eason then what her ima<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>gination
perswaded her, she
begunne to beate her face
with her fists, that inconti<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>nent
shee fill'd her mouth
with bloud, uttering after
<pb n="222" facs="tcp:27231:126"/>
that loud and shrill cry<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="2 letters">
                     <desc>••</desc>
                  </gap>
that in lesse then a quarter
of an houre, above two
hundred people were assem<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>bled,
and amongst them the
Iustice, who breaking open
the doores of the house,
came up furiously, finding
me in my shirt, and her in
her night attyre, with her
haire about her eares and her
face scratcht, calling to me
for her Pearles most furi<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ously.
The Iudge com<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>mands
that every one should
hold their peace, that hee
might be inform'd of the
fact, and take the deposition
of us both, and hee having
begunne with me, I gave him
content with very humble
words, so that neither his
threatnings nor intreaties
could draw any other an<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>swere
<pb n="223" facs="tcp:27231:126"/>
from me. Neverthe<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>lesse
the Iudge seeing the wo<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>mans
vehement complaints
and bitter teares charged
that my clothes should be
search't which was execu<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ted
with such care and dili<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>gence,
that hardly a moate
of the Sunne could have
beene hid in them, and they
not finding there the Pearles
all of them with one ac<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>cord
judged mee to be in<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>nocent,
and condemned her
as subtle, shamelesse, and dis<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>sembled.
She seeing then
that they all spake against
her, and misregarded her
complaints, cast her selfe
downe at the Iudges feete,
tearing her haire, and ren<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ding
her clothes, and utter<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ing
such strong cryes, that
the Iudge knew not what
<pb n="224" facs="tcp:27231:127"/>
to thinke, nor what resolu<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>tion
to take, and consulting
of the matter with those he
brought with him, he resol<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ved,
that it having beene ve<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>rified
that she had the Pearles
when she went to bed, they
should be searched for, in all
the most secret corners of
the Chamber, they not be<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ing
found, they should send
for an <hi>Apothecary,</hi> that should
give me a potion mingled
strongly with <hi>Scammonie,</hi> to
the end that if I had swal<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>lowed
them, I might cast
cast them up againe. The
Iudges sentence was put in
execution, and having done
their diligence proposed
about the Chamber, and not
finding the Pearls, they were
forced to come to the last
remedy, which was the Phy<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>sicke,
<pb n="225" facs="tcp:27231:127"/>
they which forced me
to take in full health without
the Physitians appointment,
and against my wil, &amp; though
I did all that was possible for
me to vomite them, there was
no meane to make me doe it,
so a vehement strife being a<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>wakened
in my guts I was
compelled to give way to
the Pearles, and to tarry my
selfe in prison, enjoying the
favours which these Gentle<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>men
Iustices are wont to
bestow upon those
that fall into their
hands.</p>
            </div>
            <div n="12" type="chapter">
               <pb n="226" facs="tcp:27231:128"/>
               <head>CHAP. XII.</head>
               <head type="sub">In which the Thiefe relateth
the last disgrace that be<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>fell
him.</head>
               <p>
                  <seg rend="decorInit">I</seg>T was about sixe a
clocke at night,
when my <hi>Andrew</hi>
made an end of
telling me his disaster about
the Pearles, and I desiring
to know the last that kept
him then in prison, I in<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>treated
him to tell mee it
from point to point, with<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>out
missing any thing re<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>markeable:
wherein hee be<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ing
willing to give me con<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>tent
<pb n="227" facs="tcp:27231:128"/>
hee answered joyfully
in this manner. If God
would have pleased that this
should be my last disgrace,
and if it had beene as soone
ended as I shall end the dis<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>course
thereof I should
have thought my selfe hap<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>pie;
but I dare not trust to
my hard lucke, because that
it being accustomed to per<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>secute
me, I do not beleeve
that it will ever cease to use
mee unkindly with new tor<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ments.
Know then that the
Iustice of <hi>Lyons</hi> having con<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>demned
me in two hundred
lashes of the whip, through
the streets accustomed, for
such malefactours, and
marking me with the towne
marke, they banisht me the
towne with shame enough,
allowing me but three daies
<pb n="228" facs="tcp:27231:129"/>
only to dispatch my busi<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>nesse
and goe into banish<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ment:
during which dayes
I thought upon a thousand
fantasticall discourses, be<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>thinking
my selfe, how I
might repaire the povertie
that had overtaken me after
so great abundance. And
after I had bethought my
selfe of a thousand plots,
never a one of which plea<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>sed
me, the Divell put one in
my head, which was the
trouble that I now am in. I
bethought my selfe that the
same day that I was whip<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>,
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap> famous Theefe came af<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ter
me, whom the Iudge had
condemned to the same
paine, a young man of good
disposition, and of a vigo<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>rous
courage, wittie, and one
of the cunningest Theeves
<pb n="229" facs="tcp:27231:129"/>
that in all my life I had
dealt withall, but unhappie
as well as my selfe. I ac<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>quainted
my selfe with him
to trie, i<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap> betweene two
wretched Caitives we could
finde some comfort in so
great a mishap, and com<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>municating
one with tho'o<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ther
our intent and thoughts,
we resolved to make a jour<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ney
together to <hi>Paris.</hi> But
before wee were fully re<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>solved
of all things fitting
for the voyage, we had a
consultation about our po<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>vertie,
and infamie, descan<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ting
upon the meanes which
we might make in so great
mishap, and thinking it was
not safe for us to embarke
our selves in so great a citie
as <hi>Paris,</hi> not having meanes
to live on there, and by
<pb n="230" facs="tcp:27231:130"/>
which to busie our selves,
at least while wee were
knowne. And after that he
had given me the hearing a
long while, and heedefully
heard all the reasons and de<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>signes
which I propounded,
he said, Master <hi>Lucas</hi> (for
that was the name which I
had at <hi>Lions)</hi> the inventions
that you shew me are good
and worthy of such a spirit
as yours: but they bee
hard and difficult questions.
Wherefore leaving them
for another occasion, I will
tell you one, which if it fal
out well, it may well be
that we shall get out of this
miserie. This is that we may
use diligence to finde in this
Citie of <hi>Lions</hi> some Mar<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>chant
that hath trade and cor<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>respondence
at <hi>Paris,</hi> from
<pb n="231" facs="tcp:27231:130"/>
whom wee may get a letter
directed to his friend, and
having found him, you shal
tell him secretly, that you
will make up some packes
of Marchandise in this
towne to be transported to
<hi>Flanders</hi> with some mony,
and leave all at <hi>Paris</hi> in
the hands of some sure man,
that it might be kept safe,
while you go to <hi>Antwerp,</hi>
where you shall make as if
you have a Cozen germane,
to trie the price, and how
your Marchandise may be
past off; and that having
never beene at <hi>Paris,</hi> nor
made any acquaintance to
whom you might recom<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>mend
your packes, you shall
intreate him to write to some
Merchant of his friends,
that hee may keepe them
<pb n="230" facs="tcp:27231:131"/>
for you. For so much, I
suppose, hee will not refuse
you, and if he agreeth to it,
let me alone. You shall see
how I will rule my hands?
If that be all that hinders
you, said I, I will finde
them that shall give me a
thousand letters, and not one
only though I am now dis<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>graced,
and with infamie
yet bleeding, I would have
you to know, that there
was moe than foure that
will doe somewhat for me,
and that this is true you shall
see by and by. With these
words I went from him, and
going to a Marchants house
of my acquaintance, asking
of him a letter, after the
forme that my camerade
had told me, with which I
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>eturned exceeding content,
<pb n="231" facs="tcp:27231:131"/>
and putting it into his hand,
he kissed it a thousand times,
praising my diligence and
credit, and so at last we came
to <hi>Paris</hi> with it, where wee
being retired to a Chamber
of the suburbs, we made
two Packes, with some pie<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ces
of coorse canvasse, the
rest full of sundry things,
such as old shooes, old
clothes, ragges, and such
other wares, and my Came<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>rade
put himselfe in the
third, wherein I packt him
up so neately and handsom<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ly,
that neither his Packe
nor the other two seemed
to be nothing else but cam<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>lots
or Fustians. Our Packes
being made up, I went to
give the letter to the Mar<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>chant
to whom it was di<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>rected,
who received it most
<pb n="234" facs="tcp:27231:132"/>
gladly offering me all his
house. After this wee
agreed that I should send the
Packes at eight a clocke at
night, to save the custome
other dues to be paid by the
Marchants, amongst which
entred that of my compani<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>on,
if not full of camlots,
yet at least of cords, ladder,
hooke, file, lantern, knife and
other militarie tooles, with
which to make war for ne<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>cessitie,
and robbe the Mar<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>chants
mony. He then being
entred and all in the house
asleepe, because it was past
eleven a clocke he slit the
canvasse with a knife, and
comming out hee search't
all the corners of the
house, throwing out at the
windowes some apparell
and silke gownes with that
<pb n="235" facs="tcp:27231:132"/>
seemed to him to be of the
least, which I gathering up
in the streete with great di<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ligence,
the Divell would
have it, that the watch in the
meane while came by, with
so great silence and dissimu<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>lation,
that they gave me
no leasure to hide our boo<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>tie,
which I was gathering
up, nor to betake my selfe to
the flight. And as there was
no great neede of questio<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ning
mee for to know my
cops-mates, sith these wares
could not fall from heaven,
they perceived that my
Camerade was above,
whom, after they led mee
to the prison, they impri<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>soned
also for the same
crime. He went out a fort
night agoe, being condem<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ned
to the Gallies for ten
<pb n="234" facs="tcp:27231:133"/>
yeares, and I feare not much
lesse, if the mercie and boun<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>tie
of the Iudges have
not some pitie
of me.</p>
            </div>
            <div n="13" type="chapter">
               <pb n="235" facs="tcp:27231:133"/>
               <head>CHAP. XIII.</head>
               <head type="sub">Of the Statutes and Lawes of
Theeves.</head>
               <p>
                  <seg rend="decorInit">B</seg>Y the discourse
which I have made
of my Historie,
saith honest <hi>An<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>drew,</hi>
I have noted that you
did not like well that I cal<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>led
our Company a Com<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>mon-weale,
it seeming to
you that wee are governed
only by the desire wee have
to steale, without any other
law or reason, which is clean
contrary, seeing that a<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>mongst
us is done nothing
<pb n="238" facs="tcp:27231:134"/>
which is not ruled by reason
laws, statuts &amp; ordina<g ref="char:cmbAbbrStroke">̄</g>ces, pu<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>nishing
those that otherwise
exercise our arte. We have in
the first place a captain &amp; Su<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>periour,
all sorts of whom
theevsobey, &amp; he disposeth of
their thefts w<hi rend="sup">ch</hi> they shold act,
na<g ref="char:cmbAbbrStroke">̄</g>ing these whoseeme to him
the fittest for the purpose, and
choosing the cu<g ref="char:cmbAbbrStroke">̄</g>ningest &amp; wi<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>sest
of the co<g ref="char:cmbAbbrStroke">̄</g>pany for the most
difficult &amp; dangerous thefts.
And in this there is so good
order kept, that there is no
man amo<g ref="char:cmbAbbrStroke">̄</g>gst us that forgetteth
one only point of his duty, nor
that passeth the bounds of his
commission undertaking that
w<hi rend="sup">ch</hi> is in another mans charge
nor medling with greater mat<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ters
than his capacity can co<g ref="char:cmbAbbrStroke">̄</g>
                  <g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>passe.
And know this that it is
the most esse<g ref="char:cmbAbbrStroke">̄</g>tiall point of our
co<g ref="char:cmbAbbrStroke">̄</g>mon wealth, by the disor<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ders
<pb n="239" facs="tcp:27231:134"/>
wherof all others are un<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>done
This captain examineth
him that co<g ref="char:cmbAbbrStroke">̄</g>meth newly unto
the company giving him three
months of novice ship, to try
his courage, inclinatio<g ref="char:cmbAbbrStroke">̄</g> &amp; abi<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>lity,
in w<hi rend="sup">ch</hi> time, he propoun<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>deth
to him some witty que<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>stions
as be these; to hang up
some little thing without lad<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>der,
pole or line; to steale a
mans horse as he is riding on
him upo<g ref="char:cmbAbbrStroke">̄</g> the way; To snatch a
way a Courtiers band amo<g ref="char:cmbAbbrStroke">̄</g>gst
a hundred people, &amp; many o<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ther
things of this kinde. And
having known his inclinatio<g ref="char:cmbAbbrStroke">̄</g>
&amp; capacity,<note place="margin">See Cap. 7. p. 54.</note> he givs him the of<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>fice
of a robber, of a Grumet,
of a Cut-purse, or any other
wherof he is found to be most
capable. You will not deny
but that this manner of pro<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ceeding
is a great state point,
just reasonable, &amp; so necessary
<pb n="238" facs="tcp:27231:135"/>
for the Common wealth,
that because it hath not bin
practised, so great disorders
are seene every where in it,
seeing violence can promise
no other good end. I will tel
you that estates and offices
should be given to every
one, according to his natural
inclination, without enfor<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>cing
or tying him by any re<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>spect
to another thing than
to that which it desireth, not
following that which trou<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>bleth,
to wit, unquietnesse
and mishap. For I held it
impossible, that shee whom
her parents shall put in a
Cloister against her will, for
want of monie to marrie her,
can live in peace and con<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>tentment.
As also he wil ne<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ver
proue a better husband<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>
who for the only pleasure of
<pb n="239" facs="tcp:27231:135"/>
his parents, and against his
minde is tyed in marriage,
and so of other employ<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ments.
We have a notable
example of this good order
in the <hi>Lacedemonians</hi> state, a
curious people, civill and
wise, who suffered their chil<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>dren
to grow up in libertie,
without putting them upon
any employment, nor to
store up their appetite to any
other estate, than to that to
which their minde prompted
them, and when they came
to age and discretion they
might choose of themselves
the meane to live by most
proper and most befitting
their naturall inclination, and
thence it proceeded that all
their actions were so wel or<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>dered
and so per<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>it. After this
manner our Co<g ref="char:cmbAbbrStroke">̄</g>mon wealth
<pb n="242" facs="tcp:27231:136"/>
is governed, &amp; with this la<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="2 letters">
                     <desc>••</desc>
                  </gap>
our captain ruleth the capaci<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ty
of those, who come newly<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>
unto him, be<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="2 letters">
                     <desc>••</desc>
                  </gap>owing on hi<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="2 letters">
                     <desc>••</desc>
                  </gap>
the office &amp; maner of stealin<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="2 letters">
                     <desc>••</desc>
                  </gap>
according to the dispositio<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="2 letters">
                     <desc>••</desc>
                  </gap>
that hee hath taken notice o<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>
in him in the months of his
novice-ship.</p>
               <p>This Captaine is an old
man, wise, well experienced
&amp; finally exempted from the
trade, as being one who<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="2 letters">
                     <desc>••</desc>
                  </gap>
force and nimblenesse having
failed for the practize, he ex<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>erciseth
the Theorie with
us teaching us the method
and precepts of stealing.
To which end he makes <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap>
meete together once a week<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="2 letters">
                     <desc>••</desc>
                  </gap>
in a certaine place appointe<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>
for the purpose, where h<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="2 letters">
                     <desc>••</desc>
                  </gap>
bindeth us to give a strict a<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="2 letters">
                     <desc>••</desc>
                  </gap>
                  <g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>count
of all the thefts and ac<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>cidents
<pb n="243" facs="tcp:27231:136"/>
that have happened
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="2 letters">
                     <desc>••</desc>
                  </gap>erein, reproving sharply
those who are negli<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>
                  <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>ent
and prove vnprofitable,
praysing the vigilant and
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="2 letters">
                     <desc>••</desc>
                  </gap>btle. This is done ordina<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>rily
on Saturday night, on
which day he appointeth all
that must be done the weeke
following, sharing out to e<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>very
one the places that he
shold keep in, &amp; the thefts in
which he shuld be emploied,
taking of the<g ref="char:cmbAbbrStroke">̄</g> all a strict oath
of faithfulnesse, &amp; punishing
the offenders, the first time a<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>bridging
him of that part of
the theft which belongeth to
him, the seco<g ref="char:cmbAbbrStroke">̄</g>d depriving him
of the place of sixe moneths,
and if he be incorrigible and
stubborne, he puts him into
the hands of the Marshall.
If hee falls in a fault by
<pb n="242" facs="tcp:27231:137"/>
negligence &amp; carelesnesse, <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap>
it may be by comming to <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap>
to his place, to go elsewhere,
or let slip some occasion i<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="2 letters">
                     <desc>••</desc>
                  </gap>
not laying hold of it, he is de<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>prived
of a weekes benefit, <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap>
taking from him the office
of a Theefe, he puts him in
the office of a Spie, or of a
watch-man, for the time
that our Councell shall ap<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>point.</p>
               <p>Of all thefts in the first
place is allotted the fifth par<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>
to him, that spares the whi<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="2 letters">
                     <desc>••</desc>
                  </gap>
to us, banishment, the Gal<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>lies,
the Gallowes, and that
which remaineth of the
tenths for pious uses, which
are, to succour the sicke and
needie of our companie, to<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>
release prisoners, and to eas<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="2 letters">
                     <desc>••</desc>
                  </gap>
the disgraces of those th<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="2 letters">
                     <desc>••</desc>
                  </gap>
have no monie.</p>
               <p>
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We receive no women in
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="2 letters">
                     <desc>••</desc>
                  </gap>e companie, unlesse it be in
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>se of great necessitie, and
when it cannot be other<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>
                  <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>ise,
because by nature they
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="2 letters">
                     <desc>••</desc>
                  </gap>nnot keepe secrets, &amp; they
being unable to eschew this
inconvenience we are bound
upon great paines not to re<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>veale
unto them, how, from
whom, and when wee have
stollen.</p>
               <p>
                  <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>He that commits the theft
hath equall share with the
Captaine for paines &amp; dan<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ger
that hee hath put him<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>selfe
in, his complices have
the third part, and the Spies
the fift.</p>
               <p>As for the honour and re<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>spect
which is due to every
one, there is such an order
kept, that no wrong is done
to any one of the companie,
<pb n="246" facs="tcp:27231:138"/>
every Officer having hi<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>
ranke and place appointed i<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>
all our meetings, assemblies
and consultations.</p>
               <p>For the first are the Rob<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>bers,<note place="margin">See Cap 7.</note>
next the Stafadours,
then the Grumets, after these
the Ho<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>bgoblins, then follow
the wooll-drawers, the Mal<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>lets
follow them, and last
the Apostles, Cigarets, Cut<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>purses,
and Caterers.</p>
               <p>Over all these a kinde of
Theeves bearesway, called
among us Liberalls, whose
office is to undertake some
strange points, as to blacke
their faces with inke o<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>ken<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>nell
durt, to hang Garlands
of hornes at mens doores,
libells or such like, and these
are the wittyest of all the
company, and those who as
it were indued with the best
<pb n="247" facs="tcp:27231:138"/>
wit and invention, weigh and
foreseeing all the difficulties
that can happen in a dange<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>rous
case.</p>
               <p>None of the companie
may make any quarrell,
noise or contentio<g ref="char:cmbAbbrStroke">̄</g> with ano<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ther,
about any matter what<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>soever,
unlesse it be fained or
subtle, to avoide any suspiti<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>on,
that may be offered.</p>
               <p>We may not eate twice
two of us together in one
and the same Tavern or vi<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>
                  <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>ailling
house, except it be
once in the fev'night, to th'<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>end
that if any thing come
in the way to be stollen there
we may breede no suspition
among<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="2 letters">
                     <desc>••</desc>
                  </gap> them that should
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>e<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>us there.</p>
               <p>We are forbidden also <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap>
go together through the city
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 span">
                     <desc>〈…〉</desc>
                  </gap>
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another; unlesse it be to fall a
quarrelling, &amp; to make some
false blowe at one another,
to draw people together, that
upon the occasion of our
quarrell the Cutpurses may
make up their hand.</p>
               <p>Every professor of the com<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>panie
carrieth his badge and
secret marke, by which he is
in an instant known of us all,
understanding by this order,
how many there are of an
office in every streete &amp; part
of the town. So the Robbers
be are alwaies a glove handing
and made fast by one finger.
The wooll drawers button<note place="margin">Cap. 7. ibids</note>
their doublet by intercession
<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                     <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                  </gap> is to say, they but <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>on one<g ref="char:punc">▪</g>
and misse the next. The <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 span">
                     <desc>〈…〉</desc>
                  </gap>
                  <pb n="249" facs="tcp:27231:139"/>
their finger into one of their
no strils. The Cut-purses have
a little white marke in their
hat-bands.<note place="margin">
                     <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 word">
                        <desc>〈◊〉</desc>
                     </gap>
                  </note> The Mal<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>etes
beare their cloake after a
certaine fashion, and finally
every particular office hath
its particular token by which
it is known among the com<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>pany.</p>
               <p>When any woman of the
companie is married every
profession gives her five
Crowns to augment her por<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>tion,
keeping neverthelesse
such an order, that she may
not be married but to one of
her owne trade; that is to
say, the Daughter of a Rob<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ber
with a man of the same
vocation or calling. And if
by chance some Cut-purse
should marrie his Daughter
with a Robber, Staffador or
<pb n="250" facs="tcp:27231:140"/>
Grumet, hee is bound to
give him a hundred crowns
in portion more then or<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>dinarie,
because his sonne
of Law is of greater and
higher Office then the fa<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ther
is.</p>
               <p>We make a vow of pati<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>ence
and suffering, promising
to be couragious and con<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>stant
against torture, though
we be seldome put to it, be<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>cause
(as I have told you) all
that is salv'd with the fifth
part.</p>
               <p>And to the end that all the
places of the towne may
be sufficiently provided,
it is enacted that every
professour that shall come
newly to a place, should put
there some marke, shewing
thereby the number of
Theeves which are in that
<pb n="251" facs="tcp:27231:140"/>
part: so the first that com<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>meth
layth a die in some
secret corner, and yet well
known to those of the
companie, with the <hi>A<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                        <desc>•</desc>
                     </gap>e</hi>
turned upwards; The second
that commeth, turneth the
die to the <hi>deuse</hi> point, the
third to the <hi>trey,</hi> the fourth
to the <hi>quarter,</hi> and so the
others to the <hi>
                     <gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                        <desc>•</desc>
                     </gap>ise,</hi> and being
come to that number,
the same Office stayeth in
the same place, because that
according to our lawes we
cannot be above six in one
and the same place: and
when any one goeth a<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>way
he turnes the die
upon the number of theeves
that remaine, in such sort,
that they being six, the first
that goeth away turnes the
<pb n="252" facs="tcp:27231:141"/>
Die to the cinque poin<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>
the second to the quarter
the third to the trey, b<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>
which number he that i<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>
behinde of the Theeves i<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>
knowne.</p>
               <p>We are bound to nourish<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>
and sustaine all the creeples,
blinde, sick, and those whom
their extreame old age ex<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>cuseth
from stealing.</p>
               <p>None of us may weare
cloake, hat, breeches, dou<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>blet
nor any thing else that
was stollen, nor sell gold,
silver or jewells in that
towne where they were
stollen, under paine of a
great and exemplarie pu<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>nishment.</p>
               <p>Wee are commanded to
carry alwayes a false bea<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>d
in our pocket, with plaisters
of sundry sorts, to disguise
<pb n="253" facs="tcp:27231:141"/>
us in an instant when occa<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>sion
shall require,</p>
               <p>As concerning Religion we are halfe
Christians, because that of the two
principall commandments of God<gap reason="illegible" resp="#TECH" extent="1 letter">
                     <desc>•</desc>
                  </gap>
Law we keep one, which is to love
God, but in no case our neighbour
because we take from him that he
hath.</p>
               <p>Next we receive and allow of the
two parts of confession (because
now and then we confess) and contri<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>tion,
but of the third, which is sat<g ref="char:EOLhyphen"/>isfaction
or restitution we not so
much as make mention or Talk.</p>
               <trailer>FINIS.</trailer>
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