IDENTILIN$$ F004VA1|Neve ms., 25.F.16|ff. 6v-10|TWH\cf\3-15-95|P:GAS|o|7-6-95|C:MJJ 3-22-96; JSC 12-17-98 004.VA1.HE1 %XSat: 4.| 004.VA1.001 Well I may now receiue and dye. My sine 004.VA1.002 In deed is great, but I haue ben in 004.VA1.003 Purgatorye. Such as feard hell is 004.VA1.004 A recreation to, and scarce mappe of this 004.VA1.005 My minde nor w%5th%6 prids itch, nor yet hath ben 004.VA1.006 Poysond w%5th%6 loue to see, or to be seen 004.VA1.007 I had noe %Ycourt%Z#shewt[sic] at Court, nor shewt show 004.VA1.008 Yet went to court,.[sic] But as %1Glare%2, w%5ch%6 did goe 004.VA1.009 To Masse in Ieast was faine to disburse 004.VA1.010 (The hundred Marks, w%5ch%6 is the statuts curse) 004.VA1.011 Before he scap'*%>scap't Soe it pleasd my desteny. 004.VA1.012 Guilty of my sine, in goeing to thinke mee 004.VA1.013 As prone to all ill. of good as forgett= 004.VA1.014 full, as proud, as lustfull, and as much in debt 004.VA1.015 As vaine as wittlesse, and as falce as they 004.VA1.016 W%5ch%6 liue at Court for once goeinge that waye 004.VA1.017 Therfore I suffered this. Towards me did runn 004.VA1.018 A thinge more strange then on %1Niles%2 slyme the sunn 004.VA1.019 Er bred, or all w%5ch%6 to Noahs Arke came 004.VA1.020 A thinge w%5ch%6 would haue posd Adam to name 004.VA1.021 Stranger then seauen, Antiquaryes Studdyes [CW:Then] 004.VA1.022 Then Affricke monste.%5rs%6, then %1Guyanas%2 rarityes [f.7] 004.VA1.023 Stranger then strange.%5rs%6 On who for a dane 004.VA1.024 In the Danes masacre had byn sure slayne 004.VA1.025 If he had liued then; and w%5th%6out, helpe dyes 004.VA1.026 When next the Prentises against strange%5rs%6 rise 004.VA1.027 One whom the watch att no>ocums 004.VA1.077 Of all o%5r%6 %1Harryes%2, and all o%5r%6 %1Edwards%2 talke 004.VA1.078 from kinge, to kinge, and all ther kyn can walke 004.VA1.079 Yo%5r%6 eares shall heare nought but kinge, yo%5r%6 eyes meet 004.VA1.080 Kings only. The way to it is Kings street 004.VA1.081 He smact and Cryd. He is base mecanicke course, 004.VA1.082 Soe ar all yo%5r%6 English in ther discourse, 004.VA1.083 Are not yo%5r%6 frenchmen neat. Myne as you see 004.VA1.084 I haue but one S.%5r%6 looke he followes mee 004.VA1.085 Certes, they ar neatly Clothd. I of this mynd am 004.VA1.086 Yo%5r%6 only wearinge is this Grograme 004.VA1.087 Not soe S%5r%6 I.[sic] haue more vnder this pitch 004.VA1.088 He would not fly. I chast him but as Itch [CW:Scratcht] 004.VA1.089 Scratcht into smarte, and as blunte Iron ground [f.8] 004.VA1.090 Into an edge hurts woorse. soe I foole found 004.VA1.091 Crossinge hurts mee. To fitt my sullennese 004.VA1.092 He to another key his stile doth dresse 004.VA1.093 And asks what newes, I tell him of new playes 004.VA1.094 Hee taks my hand, and as a still w%5ch%6 stayes 004.VA1.095 A seambreife twixt each drop (he nigardly 004.VA1.096 As loth to inrich mee) soe tells many a lye 004.VA1.097 Moore then ten %1Hollingsheads%2, or %1Halls%2, or %1Stowes%2 004.VA1.098 Of triuyall houshold %Ystuffe%Ztrash, he knowes, he knowes 004.VA1.099 When the Queen fround or smild, and what 004.VA1.100 A subtill statsman may gather of that 004.VA1.101 He knowes who loues, whom, And who by poyson 004.VA1.102 Hasteneth to an offices reuersione 004.VA1.103 He knowes who sould his land, and now doeth begge 004.VA1.104 A licence old Iron, shooes, boots, or egg- 004.VA1.105 Shells to transporte. Shortly boyes shall not play 004.VA1.106 At blow poynt on[sic] span Counter, but they pay %Ytribu%Z 004.VA1.107 Tole to some Courtyer. And wiser then all vs 004.VA1.108 Hee knowes what Lady is not painted. Thus 004.VA1.109 He w%5th%6 whome meats tryes mee. I belch, spew, spitt 004.VA1.110 Looke pale and sickly, like a patient yet, 004.VA1.111 He thrusts moore on, As if he had vndertooke 004.VA1.112 To read %1Gallebelgicus%2 w%5th%6out booke 004.VA1.113 Speaks of all stats and deeds w%5ch%6 haue ben since 004.VA1.114 The %1Spaniards%2 came to the losse of %1Aameens%2 004.VA1.115 Like a bigge wyef at the sight of loathed meat 004.VA1.116 Ready to trauayle, soe I sigh and sweate 004.VA1.117 To heare his Macaron talke. In vayne as yet 004.VA1.118 Either my humo%5r%6 or his owne to fitt 004.VA1.119 He like a priuylidgd spy (whom nothing can 004.VA1.120 Discredit) libells now against each great man 004.VA1.121 He names a price for euery office payd 004.VA1.122 He sayes o%5r%6 warres thriues ill because delayd. [CW:That] 004.VA1.123 That offices ar entayld, and that ther are [f.8v] 004.VA1.124 Perpetuityes of them lastinge as farr 004.VA1.125 As the last day. And that great office%5rs%6 004.VA1.126 Doe w%5th%6 Pirats sh%Ye%Zare, and w%5th%6 %1Dunkerke%5rs%6%2 004.VA1.127 Who wasts in meat, in clothes, in horse he noats 004.VA1.128 who loues whores, who boyes, & who Goats 004.VA1.129 I more amasd %1Cirtes%2 prisoners when, [line:sic] 004.VA1.130 They felt themselues turnd beasts, felt my sef[sic] then 004.VA1.131 Becum%Minge trayto%5r%6. And mee thought I saw 004.VA1.132 One of o%5r%6 Gyants statute ope his Iawe 004.VA1.133 To sucke me in for hearinge him. I found 004.VA1.134 That as burnt venomde leacho%5rs%6 grow sound 004.VA1.135 By giuinge othe%5rs%6 ther soares I might growe 004.VA1.136 Guylty and hee free, therfore I did showe 004.VA1.137 All signes of loathinge. But since I am in 004.VA1.138 I must pay myne and my forefathe%5rs%6 syne.[sic] 004.VA1.139 To the last farthinge. Therfore to my power 004.VA1.140 Toughly and stubbornly I beare this crosse but the hower 004.VA1.141 Of my redemtion now was come. He tryes to bringe 004.VA1.142 Me to pay a fine to e>x%>s*%>rW%5th%6< >vs< >at< >London< flouts o%5r%6 Court here, for 004.VA1.172 Iust such gay painted things, w%5ch%6 noe sapp, nor 004.VA1.173 Tast haue in them, o%5rs%6 %Yh%Zare and naturall 004.VA1.174 Some of the stocks are. There fruits basterd all 004.VA1.175 Tis ten O'Clocke, and past; All (whom the muse 004.VA1.176 Ballone, Tennis, Dyet, and the Stewes 004.VA1.177 had all the morninge held) now the second 004.VA1.178 Time made ready that daye, in flocks ar found 004.VA1.179 In the p%5re%6sence, and I god p%Pdon mee 004.VA1.180 As fresh and sweet ther apparells be, as bee 004.VA1.181 The feilds [sic]the sould to buy them for a kinge 004.VA1.182 Those hose are Cryes his flattere.%5rs%6 and doeth bringe 004.VA1.183 Them next week to the Theater to sell 004.VA1.184 Wants reach all states, me thinks they doe as well 004.VA1.185 At stage as Court. All are playe.%5rs%6 who er looks 004.VA1.186 (for themselues dare not) in Cheapside books 004.VA1.187 Shall finde ther wardrops Inuentory. Now 004.VA1.188 The ladyes cume. As Piratts w%5ch%6 did know 004.VA1.189 That ther came weake ships, fraught w%5th%6 cuchaneal [CW:The]/%YWants#re%Z 004.VA1.190 The men boorde them and praise, as they thinke well [f.9v] 004.VA1.191 Ther beutyes. They the mens witts. Both ar bought 004.VA1.192 Why good witts nere were scarlet [sic]gounds; I thought 004.VA1.193 This cause>.<%Yfor%Z These mens wits for speeches buye 004.VA1.194 And women buy all redds, w%5th%6 scarlett dye 004.VA1.195 He calls her bewty limetwiggs, her hayre nett 004.VA1.196 She feares her druggs ill layd, her hayre ill sett 004.VA1.197 Would not %1Heraclitus%2 laughe to see %1Macrine%2 004.VA1.198 from Hatt to shooe himself at dore refine? 004.VA1.199 As the p%5re%6sence were a meschite. And lift 004.VA1.200 His skirts and hose, and call his Clothes to shrift 004.VA1.201 Makinge them confesse not only mortall 004.VA1.202 Great staynes and holes in them, but veniall 004.VA1.203 Feathe.%5rs%6 and dust w%5th%6 w%5ch%6 they fornicate 004.VA1.204 And then by %1Durers%2 rules survey the state 004.VA1.205 Of his each lymb, and w%5th%6 strings the odds tryes 004.VA1.206 Of his necke, to his legge, and wast to his thyes 004.VA1.207 Soe in immaculate clothes and symmetry 004.VA1.208 Perfect as Circles, w%5th%6 such nicetye. 004.VA1.209 As a younge Precher at the first tyme goes 004.VA1.210 To preach he ente.%5rs%6 and a Lady (w>cwould haue rauisht him quite away 004.VA1.217 For sayinge o%5r%6 Ladyes Psalter, but tis fitt 004.VA1.218 That they plague each other, they merrit yt 004.VA1.219 But heare cums %1Glorius%2, that will plague them both 004.VA1.220 Who in the other extream only doth 004.VA1.221 Call a roughe carlesnes good fashion [CW:Whose] 004.VA1.222 Whose Cloake his spurrs teares, whom he spitts on [f.10] 004.VA1.223 He cares not. His ill words doe noe harme 004.VA1.224 To him. He rusheth in, as if Arme Arme 004.VA1.225 He came to Cry. And though his face be as ill 004.VA1.226 As thers w%5ch%6 in old hangings whipp Christ still 004.VA1.227 He striues to looke woorse. He keeps all in awe 004.VA1.228 Iests like a lycenst foole, comands like law 004.VA1.229 Tyrde now I leaue this place. But pleasd soe, 004.VA1.230 As men w%5ch%6 from %Jexecution%K[%1var%2:>Goales<] to execution goe 004.VA1.231 Goe throughe the great Chamber. Why is it hunge 004.VA1.232 W%5th%6 the seauen deadly sins, beinge amonge 004.VA1.233 Those Ascaparts. Men bygg ynough to throwe 004.VA1.234 Charinge Crosse, for a barr. Men w%5ch%6 doe know 004.VA1.235 Noe toaken of worth but Queens man, and fyne 004.VA1.236 Liuinge Barrells of beefe, and flagons of wyne 004.VA1.237 I shooke lyke a spyed spy. Preache%5rs%6 w%5ch%6 ar 004.VA1.238 Seas of witt and arts. you can then dare 004.VA1.239 Drowne the synes of this place. for, for me 004.VA1.240 Whoe am a skante brooke, it enough shalbe 004.VA1.241 To washe the stayne away. Thoughe I yet 004.VA1.242 W%5th%6 %1Machabees%2 modesty the knowne merritt 004.VA1.243 Of my worke lessen, yet some wisemen shall 004.VA1.244 (I hope) esteem my witt Canonicall.| 004.VA1.0SS [long scribal slash] |/Sat: 5.| 004.VA1.0$$ %1no ind; false start at bottom of page after line 189; all correction & alteration in the transcription is scribal;%2 |Sat: 5.| %1is HE for next poem, which follows on f. 10v%2