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Loke what here-in shalbe redde | |
Wynse at nothyng, excepte ye be gylty | |
For of vsurped power we be not a_dradde. | |
But God to be knowen, before preceptes fylthy | |
5 | We speake not agaynst Godes holy mystery |
But agaynst such, as loue neyther God nor theyr kynge | |
Beware therfore ye knowe not your desteny | |
Loke better to the Scripture, the word euerlastinge | |
Prouerb .xxvi. Unto the horse belongeth a whippe To the Asse a Brydle / & a rodde to the fooles backe. | |
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Ye shall haue an-other be bolde | |
Th'entent is to cure and edyfy | |
So it is sayd, By Ihon_Ramsy | |
M.D.XLVIII. | |
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THe horse that is galled wyll wynse and kycke | |
If any do enterprise, to come such a_nere | |
He thinketh ye go about to touche the quicke | |
That rather he wold runne thorow water and fire | |
5 | Euen the lyke our massemakers, begynne to stere stere: =stir |
If any in their maungines, fyndeth lacke maungines: =manginess | |
Then lyke a galled horse they stampe and st[a]re stare] stere 1548stampe and st[a]re: for the phrase 'stamp and stare', see OED s.v. stamp v, 2c | |
But guppe ye godmakers, beware your galled backe. | |
Guppe syr Ihon and guppe Bishoppe also | |
10 | Guppe al other, that holde with the same |
Uery maungy ye are, and winse to and fro | |
Doubte not but at lengthe it wyll turne you to shame | |
For many of you commaunde in your ow[n]e name | |
Up with masse (we charge you let not that slacke | |
15 | Or els in the Castell of N. we wyll you tame |
But Guppe ye Godmakers, bewar[e] your galled backe beware] bewary 1548 | |
What other are you, but maungy in-dede | |
To prefere the abhominacion most vyle in Goddes sighte | |
Loke ye blynde oweles, in what Gospell do ye rede | |
20 | That such myrlymuse, doth please God a_right myrlymuse ='nonsense'? This word is not recorded in OED or MED. |
On thys syde, & that syde, as one sought hys way by nighte | |
Straining a knaues armes, as though he stod on a racke knaues] knaues, 1548 | |
With mockes and mowes, and like a foole dyght | |
But guppe ye Godmakers, beware youre galled backe | |
25 | Thinke you Christen fayth to you is obedient |
To folow such Mametry, made by a pilled squier | |
No no you maye well holde your-selues content | |
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We haue neyther fayth, in Monke Priest nor Frier. | |
Ye are worthy to be hanged, and so payde for youre hiere | |
30 | That wyll compell, the trew subiectes to bear your packe |
It semeth by your dedes, that treason ye do conspire | |
But guppe ye Godmakers, be_ware your galled backe: | |
Wher is your obedience, and wher is your commission? | |
So tyranly so heritikely, to geue any such commaundemente tyranly: =tyranlie, a variant of tyrantly, 'tyrannically' | |
35 | To folow the pope, with hys superstytion |
Yet in one knotte, to thys ye do consente | |
Ye rore and crie, as men with-oute Iudgement | |
Up with the masse or eles al, goeth to wracke | |
But remembre goddes vengaunce is ready bent | |
40 | And guppe ye Godmakers, beware your galled backe. |
Ye say ye are an insurrection | |
But who shal it make. that wolde we knowe? | |
Euen youre owne selues / with youre pestilent Infection | |
To supresse goddes veritie, and bringe it lowe, | |
45 | It is tyme to loke to you, for the sede that you do sowe |
Whych ye shall repe, and lay it on your owne stacke, | |
We set not a fart by your masse made with mocke & mowe | |
But guppe ye Godmakers, beware youre galled backe | |
Loke in holy scripture, learne there your dewtye | |
50 | Ye blynde guides / that stomble at a strawe |
There shall ye fynde, that the Lorde God onely, | |
Shalte thou serue, and folowe his holy law | |
But thou thinkeste, that god is made of euery Iackedawe | |
As in his handes thou must heare his bones cracke | |
55 | And thynkest thy-selfe safe. when he is downe in thy maw |
But Guppe ye Godmakers, beware your galled backe | |
Your masse that ye make your god serueth for many a thinge | |
For rayne for drowthe, for pestilence and shepe | |
For pygges for pylgrimes, for shippes that be saylynge | |
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60 | For corne for the cough, and for those that can not slepe corne ='pills, granules'? |
And what for thys yf your god ye do not well kepe | |
He will stynke in his house, ye can not a_byde the smacke | |
Yet to that false god, ye knele and crepe | |
But guppe ye godmakers beware your galled backe. guppe] guuppe 1548 | |
65 | You have chaplens of trust, that serue for the nones |
Gredy of stommacke hasty in digestion | |
That can eate vp a whole body both flesh bloud & bones | |
And that same daye be dronke and aske no question | |
A dronken chaplen a dronken god, surely a holy profession | |
70 | Cursed be such for ther dedes are blacke |
Our God is in heauen, whych dyed for our redemption | |
But puppe ye godmakers beware your galled backe: puppe: an interjection; see OED s.v. pup int. | |
In thre partes your God must be deuyded | |
For the bodyes aboue, the bodyes beneth, & those that be lyuinge | |
75 | That Pope was wyse that thus had contryued |
God for God, God for the dyuell, God for all yll-doynge | |
Euery pi[e]ce was God, thys is your teichinge piece] pice 1548 | |
So that the least piece, be it neuer so lytle a snacke | |
Is god of god made, that had a begynnyng | |
80 | But guppe ye godmakers. beware your galled backe |
Ye may do what ye lyste with thinges of youre owne | |
Ye may do what ye can, where ye be not set by. | |
Your cruell tormentes be sone ouer-blowen, | |
And the rekeninge ye muste make of all your Iniurie | |
85 | Men that accompte them-selues wyse shuld circumspectly |
Do all thinges to gods honor, & not his scripture hacke | |
As men_de_lekes, their Imagination to satysfy men_de_lekes: =*mendilykes, 'turban-wearers, infidels'? The word is not recorded in MED or OED, but see OED s.v. mandil n, 'turban' (1st attested 1662) | |
But guppe ye godmakers beware your galled backe | |
We wolde talke with you, but your malice is to greate | |
90 | Your dedes do declare, ye are the Popes Pygges |
Yet we wil ax one question but be in no more heate | |
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And let vs heare what ye sucked out of the Popes biggis biggis: =bigs, 'teats' | |
Do men on the brembles gather any figges | |
Do your horemasters prestes. by their ministracion so compacke | |
95 | To alure Christ out of heauen, as men do byrdes to twigges twigges] twingges 1548 |
No no, ye Godmakers / beware your galled backe | |
Christ sitteth in heauen holy scripture saith so, | |
Christ shall come agayne, euen the same body that wente hence | |
Christ said it was expedient that he shuld go | |
100 | For his fleshly body dyd no longer profyt by presence |
The kysse that Iudas had toke not a_waye hys offence | |
But still in desperacion. his conscience stacke conscience] consecience 1548stacke: =stuck, 'pierced' | |
Moche lesse in your God, that hath no intelligence | |
But guppe ye Godmakers, beware your galled backe. | |
105 | Ye pretende a great holynes, but not in right vse |
Christes institution is cleane out of memory | |
He brake the bread, without vayne excuse | |
And sayde it was hys body that [ne]des shulde dye nedes] endes 1548 | |
Now it was not the bread: that was crucifyed at Caluarye | |
110 | But the body whych is in heauen thys scripture ye can not lacke |
And as the bread was broken euen so was his body | |
But Gup ye God-makers. beware your galled backe. | |
But as you do vse it, it is neither here nor there | |
But a faynde mommer[y], of Antichristes deuyse mommer[y]: the reading is illegible in the copytext | |
115 | And as Baruch sayth no God he is, we nede not to feare |
For when he is downe, he can no more ryse | |
Yet your Pristes, handell him so fynely and nyce | |
Wrappe him in clowtes, with many a popyshe knacke | |
I wolde all such pristes, [might] swarme ful of lyce might] mighty 1548 | |
120 | But guppe ye Godmakers, beware your galled backe: |
Lay forth for your-selfe, the best that ye can | |
Commaunde what ye lyst, of your owne deuyse | |
We knowe, ye shal not be obayed of neuer an honest man | |
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But of your owne couenauntes, that loueth the popes guyse | |
125 | Yet beware least your heades knowe the pryce |
For ye lyke trayters, against our kyng fynde lacke | |
In suppressing the Pope, with all his marchaundyce | |
But guppe ye godmakers beware your galle[d] backe galled] galle 1548 | |
Marke the gesture, who that lyst | |
130 | First a shorne shauelynge, clad in a clowt |
Bearinge the name of an honest priest | |
And yet in no place a starker lowte | |
A whore-monger a dronkard, ye mayken hym be s[t]owte stowte] snowte 1548 | |
At the Alehouses he studieth, tyll hys witte he doth lacke | |
135 | Such are your minysters, to bringe thys matter about |
But guppe ye godmakers. beware you[r] galled backe your] youe 1548 | |
Then wraped in a knaues skynne, as holy as my horse | |
Before the aulter, in great contemplacion | |
Confessinge the synnes of his lubbrysh Corse | |
140 | To god and all saynctes, he counteth hys abhomination |
Then home to the aulter, with great saintification | |
With crosses, and blesses, with his boy lytle Iacke | |
Thus forth goeth syr Ihon with all his preparation | |
But puppe ye godmakers beware your galled backe: | |
145 | Then gloria in excelsis for ioye dothe he synge |
More for his fat lyuinge, then for deuocion | |
And many there be that remember another thinge | |
Which syng not wyth mery hart for lacke of promocion | |
Thus some be mery, some be sory according to their porcion | |
150 | Then forth cometh Colettes, bounde vp in a packe Colettes: =collects |
Of this sainct and that sainct, for sickenes, and extorcion | |
But guppe ye godmakers beware your galled backe. guppe] guuppe 1548 | |
The epistell and gospell they haue put in | |
To colour their falsehed, vnder holy pretence | |
155 | And al in latyn, to cloke their synne. synne] synnne 1548 |
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This daylie, is sene by common experience | |
Now marke, for here cometh great reuerence, | |
A slappe for a flye, whiche is a prety knacke | |
That must ye kysse, and gyue them pence | |
160 | But guppe ye godmakers beware your galled backe. |
Than must he wash, he hath handled some whores tayle | |
With tourne about Iacke / and shew some sporte | |
For many ar popish knaues, of the shauen sorte | |
More me[t]er he were for the whippe and flayle, me[t]er: the copytext reading is illegible | |
165 | Then to put the dead soules in good comfort |
Then standeth he moming lyke a calfe in a sacke | |
Many tymes hys whore, wyll [he] ther resorte he] the 1548 | |
But guppe ye godmakers beware your galled backe | |
Then make they god wyth wordes ynowe | |
170 | And hange hym vp betwene theues twayne |
Then ye masmongers, loke that ye bowe | |
For there is your god, made by a knaue in graine in graine ='dyed-in-the-wool' | |
And he prayeth vnto him for all syckenes and payne | |
And at length doth eate hym, bothe shoulder leg & racke | |
175 | And the next daye can make an-other agayne |
But guppe ye godmakers, beware your galled backe | |
Thus ye are begyled with suche foxes play | |
And your hartes are so set that the truth ye do not see | |
Yet remember god and our kynge what they do say | |
180 | That from Idolatry wolde haue you to flee, |
Yf ye wyll not then be blynde styll for me: | |
The lord defend our noble king, that of you he haue no lacke | |
For you ar hard to be trusted what-soeuer ye be | |
Therfore ye ar warned, beware your galled backe | |
¶Imprinted at London in Sainct_Andrewes Parysh in the_wardrop By Thomas_Raynalde |