HYPOCRISY

Sancti amen, who have we there? By the mass I will buy none of thy beware, thou art a chapman for the devil What my son, canst thou not tell? well said master doctor, well said. By the mass we must have you, in to the pulpit, I pray you be remembered, and cover your head For in deed you have need to keep in your wit, A Sirrah, who would have thought it That youth had be such a well learned man: Let me see your portous gentle sir John. Be you so sir? I cry you mercy than, you may say I am homely, & lack learning, to liken my father's voice unto a sows groaning But I pray you show me the cause, and why that you called me hither so hastily, A Hypocrisy, I am undone utterly Can you deny, but it is your duty Unto your elders to be obedient what, are those fellows so curious That your self you can not excuse? I will teach you the matter to convey Do what your own lust, and say as they say And if you be reproved with your own affynytye Bid them pluck the beam out of there own eye The old popish priests mock and despise And the ignorant people that believe their lies Call them papists, hypocrites, & joining of the plough. Fare out the matter, and then good enough. Let your book at your girdle be tied, Or else in your bosom that he may be spied, And then it will be said both with youth and age yonder fellow hath and excellent knowledge. tush tush, I could so bear the Bush, that all should be flush. that ever I did. The ground is the better on the which she does go For she will make better cheer w to a little which she Can ̄ get Then many one cane w to a great banquet of meat, What unknown honesty a word you shall not go yet by God I swear. Here is none but your friends, you need not to fray. Although this strange young gentle man be here, For I my self do know the contrary, By daily experience: Do not I yet reign a broad, And as long as I am in the world, you have some treasure and substance. I suppose I have been the flower In setting forth thy laws and power, Without any delay By the mass if I had not be, thou hadst not been worth a Flanders pin, At this present day. the time were to long now to declare How many and great the number are, Which have deceived be: And brought clean from Gods law, Unto thy yoke and awe, Through the enticement of me. I have been bused since y e world began, to graft thy laws in the heart of man, Where they ought to be refused: And I have so mingled gods continued ̄ mau ̄ deem ̄ tes with vain zeals, & blind intents that they be greatly abused. I set up great idolatry With a kind of filthy Sodometry, to give mankind a fallen: And I brought up such superstition Under the name of holiness and religion, that disceyued all most all. As holy Cardinals holy Popes, Holy vestiments, holy copes Holy armytes and Friars Holy priests. holy bishops Holy monks, holy abbots yea, and all abstinate liars. Holy pardons, holy beads, Holy saints, holy images, With holy, holy blood, Holy stocks, holy stones: Holy cloughtes, hold bones: yea, and holy holy wood. Holy skins, holy bulls: Holy rochetts, and coules Holy crouches and staves Holy hoods, holy caps Holy miters, holy hats a good holy, holy knaves. Holy days, holy fastings: Holy twitching, holy tastings, Holy visions and sights: Holy wax, holy lead: Holy water, holy bread: To driven a way spirits. Holy fire, holy palm: Holy oil, holy cream: And holy ashes also: Holy brouches, holy Rings: Holy kneeling holy sensynges: And a hundred trim trams more. Holy crosses, holy bells: Holy relics, holy iouels: Of mine own invention: Holy candles, holy tapers: Holy parchementes, holy papers: Had not you a holy son? A sir a, there begins the game, What, is Ivuentus become so tame? To be a new gospeler. At your request I will not refuse to do that thing which in me does lie, Doubt you not, but I will excuse, those things which you does plainly deny And I will handel my matters so craftily that ere he comes to men state: Gods word and his living shall be clean at the bore For I think I am not he which you take me for yes, I have known you ever since you were boar your age is yet under a score, Which I can well remember: I wiss, I wiss you and I. Many a time have been full merry· When you were young and tender. But First show your nomination. Of my name to make declaration Without any dissimulation, I am called frendshyip: Although I be simple and rude of fashion yet by lineage and generation, I am ney kin to your mastership. What friendship By the mass I love you so heartily, That there is none so welcome to my company I pray you tell me, whither are you going? Surely, then you are the more unwise. you mai have a spyrt amongst them now and then As for all those filth doings. I utterly detest them, I will hear no more of your wicked communycacyon. What will you do at a preaching? Learn some wholesome and godly teaching, Of the true minister of Christ's gospel. you ought not to jest with Gods testame ̄ to. What man, I pray you be content, For I do nothing else but sai mi fantasy But yet if you could do after mi aduisment In that matter you should not be so busy Was not your father as well learned as you? And if he had said then as you have now done I wiss, he had been Like to make a burn whither is better, a halter or a cord I can not tell, I swear by Gods mother But I thing you will have the one or the other Will you loose all your friends Good will To continue in that opion still, Was there not as well learned men before as now? yea, and better to I may say to you And they thought the younger sort of the people By the elders to take and example And if I did not love you as nature does me bind you should not know so much of my mind To meet them there as the sermon was. For onse breaking promise do not you pass, Make some excuse the matter to cease what have they to do? And you and I were I wot wot where we would be as merry as there yea, and merryer to No God it knoweth, you are as full of honesty As a marry bone is full of honey But syrra, I pray you bid this gentleman welcome For he is desirous in your company to come, I tell you he is a man of the right making And one that hath excellent learning At his girdle he hath such a book That the popish priests dare not in him look This is a fellow for the nonce. yea I warau ̄ to you, therefore you must be familiar w to her When she comes in place, you must her embrace, Somewhat hamsomlie. Lest she thinketh danger Be cause you are a stranger, To come in your company. yea, by Gods foot that I will be busy And I may say to you I can play the knave secretly Tush, as for that do not you pass That which I told you was but for love what and it were known it where no daly sin As for my part I do not greatly care, So that they find not your proper butteckes bore Now much fie upon you how badi you are, Now I beshrew his Heart, that to that will not agree, But yet because the time shall not seem very long, Or eat we depart, let us have a merry song The sing as follow eth. Why should not youth fulfil his own mind, As the course of nature does him bind, Is not every thing ordained to do his kind? Report me to you, report me to you. Do not the flowers spring fresh and gay, Pleasant and sweet in the month May? And when their time comes they fayed away Report me to you, report me to you. Be not the trees in wyntter bore, Like unto their kind, such they are, And when they spring, their fruits declare Report me to you, report me to you. What should youth do, with the fruits of age But live in pleasure in this passage, For when age comes hes lusts will suage Report me to you, report me to you. Why should not youth fulfil his own mind They go fourth. Here en treth God counsel As the course of nature does him bind. &c. Oh merciful Lord, who can seance to lament, Or keep his heart from continual mourning, To see how youth is fallen from thy word And wholly inclined to abominable living, He liveth nothing according to his profession But alas his life is, to thy word abusion, Except thy Great mercy to his utter confusion. Oh where is the godly conversation Which should be among the professor of thy word Oh where may a man find now one faithful That is not enfected with dissension or descorde? Or amongst whom are all vices abhorred utterly Oh where is the brotherly love between man & man we may lament the time our vice be gan Oh where is the peace & meekness, long suffering & tempe raunce which are the fruits of Gods holy spirit, with whom is the flesh brought under obedience, Or who readeth the scripture to the intent to follow it who uses not now covetousness and disceite, Who giveth unto the poor that which is dew? I think in this world, few that live now. Oh where is y e godly exa ̄ ple that parents should give. Unto their young family, by godly & virtuous living? Alas how wicked do they themselves live, Without any fear of God, or his righteous threatening, They have no respect unto the dreadful reckoning, Which shall be required of us, when the Lord shall come, As a right full judge at the day of dome, Oh what a joyful sighed was it for to see, When youth began Gods word to embrace. Then he promised godly knowledge and me, That from our instructio ̄ he would never turn his face But now he walks, alas: in the vngodlyes chase, Her en treth In ventus Heaping sin up on sin, vice upon vice, He that liveth most ungodly, is counted most wise, Who is here playing at the dice? I heard one speak of sins and cyce, His words did me entice. Hither to come: To read and declare the manifest truth? A preaching quod he, would good little one By Christ she will make you cry out of the Winning If you follow her instruction so early in the Morning, Lawful quod would, a fool fool Will thou set men to scoole when they be old I may say to you secretly The world was never meri Since children where so bold. Now every boy will be a teacher The father a fool, and the child a preacher This is preaty gear The fool presumptuous of youth will turn shortly to great ruth I fear. I fear. I fear. Will you see this gentleman fines your gentelnes and your kindness, I thank him and I thank you, And I think, if the truth weary sought, The one bade, and the other nought, Never a good I make God a vow. But yet feloship tell me one thing. Did you see little Bess this Morning? We should have our brekefast, yester night she said, But she hath before got it now, I am a fraid. By the mass it is a name full meet, For my proper and amiable person, I warrant you, let me a lone, I will be with Ivuentus anon, And that ere he be beware. And I wysse if he walk not straight. I will use such a sleight, That shall trap him in a snare. How shall I bring this gear to pass? I can tell now by the mass, Without any more advisement: I will infect him with wicked company, Whose conversation shall be so fleshly, yea, able to over come and innocent, This wicked felowshipe, Shall him company keep, For a while: And then I will bring in, Abominable living, Him to beguile. With words fair I will him tyse, Telling him of a gyrlenyse, Which shall him somewhat move: Abominable living, though she be, yet he shall no other wayesse. But she is for to love. She shall him procure To live in pleasure, After his own phantesy And my matter to frame, I will call her name, Unknown honesty. This will I convey, My matter I say, Some what handsomely, That through wicked fellowship: And false pretend frendshep, youth shall live carnally. Trudge hypocrysie trudge, Thou art a good drudge, To serve the devil: If thou shouldst lie and lurk, And not intend thy work, Thy master should do full evil. ¶Here entereth youth, to whom he pocrysye yet spea keth What master youth. Well I met by my troth and whither a way? you are the last man, Which I called on, I sware by this day. Me thought by your face Ere you cam in place, It should be you: Therefore I did a bide For your coming, this is true. Ah now I see well youth is feathered And his crumes he hath well gathered, Since I spoke with him last A poor men tale can not now be herd As in times passed: I cry you mercy, I was some what bold Thinking that your mastershyp would, Not have been so strange: But now I perceive that promotion, Causeth both man, manners and fashion Greatly for to change Let us go thither as you thenke best. How say you, shall we go to breakfast will you go to the pie feast. Or by the mass if thou wilt be my gest It shall cost the nothing, I have a furny card in a place, that will bore aturne beside the ace, She puruyes now a pace, For mi coming And if thou Wilt fybbere as well as I. we shall have merry company, And I warrant we have not a pie we shall have a pudding. you may draw me a bout the town w to a pudding: Then you shall see cunning. A poor shift for a living. Here en treth. Amongst poor men used is, The kind heart of hers, Hyth eased my purse, Many a time ere this I marvel greatly where friendship is, For I have tarried here this our or twain, And this honest gentleman in mi company hath been Out of conceit, quod would no no, I dare welsay that she thinketh not so, How say you unknown honesty? She shall go with none of you I dare welsaye, She will go with me before you both, What a hurly burly is here, Smicke smack and all this gere you well to tycke take I fere. if thou had time, Well wanton well, I wysse I can tell That such smock smell will set your nose out of tune.