A Plaster for a Galled Horse

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A Plaister for a galled Horse.

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

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.

Yf this playster be to colde

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 plajster.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'

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

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,

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

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

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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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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:

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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