Clements Inn without Temple Bar, there is a lane that goeth into the Fields, there he renewed his face again with fresh blood, which he carried about him in a bladder, and daubed on fresh dirt, upon his jerkin, hat and hosen. And so came back again unto the Temple, and sometime to the water side, and begged of all that passed by: the boys beheld how some gave groats, some sixpence, some gave more: for he looked so ugly and irksomely, that every one pitied his miserable case that beheld him: to be short, there he passed all the day till night approached and when it began to be somewhat dark, he went to the waterside and took a sculler, and was set over the water into St Georges Fields, contrary to my expectation: for I thought he would have gone into Holborn, or to St Giles in the Field: but these boys with (Argus and Lynceus' eyes) set sure watch upon him, and the one took a boat and followed him, and the other went back to tell his master. The boy that so followed him by water, had no money to pay for his boat hire, but laid his penner and his inkhorn to gage for a penny, and by that time the boy was set over his master with all celerity had taken a boat and followed him a pace. Now had they a sight still of the crank, which crossed over the fields towards Newington, and thither he went, and by that time they came thither, it was very dark. The printer had there no acquaintance, neither any kind of weapon about him, neither knew how far the crank would go, because he then suspected that they dogged him of purpose, he there stayed him, and called for the constable, which came forth diligently, to inquire what the matter was. This zealous printer charged this officer with him as a malefactor, and a dissembling vagabond: the constable would have laid him all night in the cage that stood in the street: nay, saith this pitiful printer, I pray you have him into your house, for this is like to be a cold night and he is naked; you keep a victualling house, let him be well cherished this night, for he is well able to pay for the same, I know well his gains have been great to-day, and your house is a sufficient prison for the time, and we will there search

him the constable agreed thereunto, they had him in and caused him to wash himself: that done, they demanded what money he had about him, saith this crank, so God help me I have but xij pence, and plucked out the same of a little purse. Why, have you no more, quoth they? No, saith this crank, as God shall save my soul at the day of judgment. We must see more, quoth they, and began to strip him, then he plucked out another purse wherein was xl pence. Tush, saith this printer, I must see more; this crank saith, I pray God I be damned both body and soul, if I have any more: No, saith this printer, thou false knave, here is my boy that did watch thee all this day, and saw when such men gave thee pieces of sixpence, groats, and other money, and yet thou hast shewed us none but small money. When this crank heard this, and the boy vowing it to his face, he relented and plucked out another purse, wherein was eight shillings and odd money, so had they in the whole that he had begged that day xiij shillings iii pence half penny: then they stripped him stark naked, and as many as saw him, said they never saw handsomer man, with a yellow flaxen beard, and fair-skinned without any spot or grief; then the good wife of the house fet her good man's old cloak, and caused the same to be cast about him, because the sight should not abash her shamefaced maidens, neither loathe her squeamish sight. Thus he sat him down at the chimney's end, and called for a pot of beer, and drank off a quart at a draught, and called for another, and so the third, that one had been sufficient for any reasonable man: the drink was so strong, that I myself the next morning tasted thereof, but let the reader judge what, and how much he would have drunk if he had been out of fear. Then when they had thus wrung water out of a flint, in spoiling him of his evil gotten goods, his passing pence and fleeting trash, the printer with this officer were in jolly jollity, and devised to search a barn for some rogues and upright men a quarter of a mile from the house, that stood alone in the fields, and went out about their business, leaving this crank alone with his wife and maidens. This crafty

crank espying all gone, requested the good wife that he might go out on the backside (to the back of the house), she bad him draw the latch of the door and go out, neither thinking or mistrusting he would have gone away naked: but to conclude, when he was out, he cast away the cloak, and as naked as ever he was born he ran away over the fields to his own house, as he afterwards said.

THE

JOHN LYLY

EUPHUES

'HE filthy sow when she is sick eateth the sea crab and is immediately recured: the tortoise having tasted the viper sucketh origanum, and is quickly revived: the bear, ready to pine, licketh up the ants, and is recovered: the hart, being pierced with the dart, runneth out of hand to the herb dictanum, and is healed. And can men by no herb, by no art, by no way, procure a remedy for the impatient disease of love? Ah, well I perceive that Love is not unlike the fig tree whose fruit is sweet, whose root is more bitter than the claw of a bittern: or like the apple in Persia, whose blossom savoureth like honey, whose bud is more sour than gall.

ΟΝ

T. NASHE

ON THE RED HERRING

N no coast like ours is it caught in such abundance, nowhere dressed in his right cue but under our horizon; hosted, rosted and toasted here alone it is, and as well powdered and salted as any Dutchman would desire. If you articulate with me of the gain or profit of it, without the which the new-fanglest rarity, that no body can boast of but our

selves, after three days gazing is reversed over to children for babies to play with; behold, it is every man's money, from the King to the Courtier; every householder or goodman Baltrop, that keeps a family in pay, casts for it as one of his standing provisions. The poorer sort make it three parts of their sustenance; with it, for his dinner, the patchedest Leather pilche laborattro may dine like a Spanish Duke, when the niggardliest mouse of beef will cost him sixpence. In the craft of catching or taking it, and smudging it merchant- and chapmanable, as it should be, it sets a-work thousands, who live all the rest of the year gaily well by what in some few weeks they scratch up then, and come to bear office of Questman and Scavenger in the parish where they dwell; which they could never have done, but would have begged or starved with their wives and brats, had not this Captain of the squamy cattle so stood their good lord and master. Carpenters, shipwrights, makers of lines, ropes and cables, dressers of hemp, spinners of thread, and net weavers it gives their handfuls to, set up so many salt houses to make salt, and salt upon salt; keeps in earnings the cooper, the brewer, the baker, and numbers of other people, to gill, wash and pack it, and carry it and recarry it.

In exchange of it from other countries they return wine and woads for which is always paid ready gold, with salt, canvas, vitre, and a great deal of good trash. Her Majesty's tributes and customs this Semper Augustus of the sea's finny freeholders augmenteth and enlargeth uncountably, and to the increase of navigation for her service he is no enemy.

Voyages of purchase or reprisals, which are now grown a common traffic, swallow up and consume more sailors and mariners than they breed, and lightly not a slop of a ropehauler they send forth to the Queen's ships but he is first broken to the sea in the herring man's skiff or cockboat, where having learned to brook all waters, and drink as he can out of a tarry can, and eat poorjohn out of swuttie platters, when he may get it, without butter or mustard, there is no ho with him, but, once heartened thus, he will needs be

a man of war, or a tobacco taker, and wear a silver whistle. Some of these with their haughty climbing come home with wooden legs, and some with none, but leave body and all behind those that escape to bring news tell of nothing but eating tallow and young blackamores, of five and five to a rat in every mess, and the ship-boy to the tail, of stopping their noses when they drunk stinking water that came out of the pump of the ship, and cutting a greasy buff jerkin in tripes and broiling it for their dinners. Divers Indian adventures have been seasoned with direr mishaps, not having for eight days space the quantity of a candles-end among eight score to grease their lips with; and landing in the end to seek food, by the cannibal savages they have been circumvented, and forced to yield their bodies to feed them. Our mitred Archpatriarch, Leopold Herring, exacts no such Muscovian vassailage of his liegemen.

PHILIP STUBBES

ON THE PLAYING OF FOOTBALL

SPUDENS. Is the playing at football, reading of merry books, and such like delectations, a violation or pro

fanation of the Sabbath day?

Philoponus. Any exercise which withdraweth us from godliness, either upon the Sabbath or any other day else, is wicked and to be forbidden. Now, who is so grossly blind that seeth not, that these said exercises not only withdraw us from godliness and virtue, but also hale and allure us to wickedness and sin? For, as concerning football playing, I protest unto you, it may rather be called a friendly kind of fight than a play or recreation, a bloody and murthering practice, than a fellowly sport or pastime. For, doth not every one lie in wait for his adversary, seeking to overthrow him, and to pick (pitch) him on his nose, though it be upon